Quote Originally Posted by charliepanayi View Post
The media fuss over De Gea is ridiculous, he's played two games and already he's useless and should be ditched. Who'd be a goalkeeper these days.
It might be a bit premature, but he definitely needs to pull himself towards himself. He might have the talent but he definitely needs to be more dominant in the area and improve his concentration (the fact that he let in the most goals from outside the box in La Liga suggests that this might not be too easy to solve). I don't understand why we spent 18 million quid for an unproved kid though. We have Lindegaard, who looked very solid in the games he played, and there are lots of experienced, capable goalkeepers (Shay Given for example) floating around.

Besides that, the lack of Sneidjer might not be too traumatic. I like the look of Cleverley and, for me, he feels to be more the player we needed to sign than Wesley. Sneidjer might be fantastic going forward, but I don't ever recall him having a great work-rate, especially defensively. Cleverley looks like he is always going to be making space to receive a pass, have clever touches and short passes and will cover the ground defensively.

Selling Wes Brown might have been silly. But Phil Jones looks like he was born in an United shirt and Ashley Young will hopefully get better as he becomes more confident in an United shirt and starts to run more at defenders (instead of cutting in and crossing to the defender's boot).