03 Sep 2025 08:28:06
I can understand why Onana considers himself exempt from a pay cut. It's not like he has made any howlers.
23/ 24:
- Wolves (1-0 win at home) – Clatters into their striker. Should’ve been a pen.
- Nottingham Forest (3-2 win at home) – Terrible goalkeeping on the first goal, diving before player shoots
- Arsenal (3-1 defeat away) – Should’ve saved the late Rice winner, not a strong enough save
- Bayern Munich (4-3 defeat away) – Huge howler on their first goal, fumbled into his own net
- Brighton (3-1 defeat at home) – Should’ve saved their 3rd goal
- Galatasaray (3-2 defeat at home) – Shocking pass out leads to a penalty for their 3rd goal
- Brentford (2-1 win at home) – Should’ve saved their goal
- Man City (3-0 defeat at home) – Palmed the ball straight to Haaland on their 3rd goal, terrible keeping
- Copenhagen (4-3 defeat away) – Should’ve saved their 3rd goal
- Galatasaray (3-3 draw away) – Shocking positioning on a free kick first goal, absolute howler on their 3rd goal one of the worst keeping errors ever
- West Ham (2-1 defeat away) – Weak goalkeeping on their opening goal
- Aston Villa (3-2 win at home) – Terrible goalkeeping on their opening goal, just stood watching a cross go all the way in
- Nottingham Forest (2-1 defeat away) – Should’ve saved their winning goal, horrendous positioning and dive
- Wolves (4-3 win away) – Should’ve saved their second, doesn’t even dive for their 3rd. Bad keeping.
- Man City (3-1 loss away) – Should’ve saved their 2nd goal.
- Chelsea (4-3 loss away) – Huge error not saving their first goal
- Sheffield United (4-2 win at home) – Absolutely shocking pass out leads to the opening goal
- Newcastle (3-2 win at home) – Shocking positioning on their long range 2nd goal
- Man City (2-1 win FA Cup final) – Huge error on their goal, spilled it into his own net
24/ 25:
- Porto (3-3 draw away) – Shocking keeping on their first goal palming a shot across into the danger zone where their attacker follows in
- Pilzen (2-1 win away) – Huge blunder pass out leads to their opening goal
- Nottingham Forest (3-2 defeat at home) – Massive blunder on their second goal, letting a shot go through him that was right at him
- Wolves (2-0 defeat away) – Concedes direct from a corner
- Southampton (3-1 win at home) – Shocking blunder for their first goal, palms the ball into his own net
- Brighton (3-1 defeat at home) – One of the worst mistakes you’ll ever see on their 3rd goal, failing to grasp the ball and it falls to their striker
- Leicester (2-1 win at home FA Cup) – Was poor on their first goal. Doesn’t clear the shot with his save and the attacker follows in.
- Tottenham (1-0 defeat away) – Palms the ball straight to their striker for a tap in
- Lyon (2-2 draw away) – Absolute calamity on both goals, the first one of the worst errors ever palming a cross into the net, the second fumbling a shot to their attacker
- Everton (2-2 draw away) – Poor goalkeeping on their second goal, palms it up into the air and fails to save the resulting header right at him
- Ipswich (3-2 win at home) – Terrible keeping for their 2nd goal, let's a hopeful cross go all the whole way in. Arguably at fault for the first goal
25/ 26:
- Grimsby (2-2 loss pens away League Cup) – Should’ve saved the first goal, huge blunder missing a cross on the second goal.
03 Sep 2025 09:14:37
Fizz,
That's is graft you've put into that post, unless it was a cut-and-paste.
Regardless of that, it really sums up how poor Onana is and how bad Erik Ten Weeks was at recruitment.
03 Sep 2025 14:00:31
Yeah, great job Fizz.
I know I’ve been banging on about Onana, but he’s genuinely our worst signing of the post-Fergie era.
We had a very good keeper with a major limitation in his quality on the ball. The club broke an agreement, and kicked him out of the club after over a decade to bring in Onana.
The fee was inflated, but that’s not even the worst part of the deal. Not only is Onana pretty weak with the ball at his feet too, he is a downgrade on DeGea in every other part of his game.
There’s not a single other player at the club who has cost us as many results due to individual errors. Most of which are basic things that a Sunday League keeper should be able to do. The fact that the club allowed ETH do this speaks volumes to Glazer ineptitude.
03 Sep 2025 17:46:55
How on earth is this on the Glazers? If they’d stopped Ten Days from signing Onana and De Gea had continued to make mistakes (which he almost certainly would have), you’d be criticizing them for not supporting the manager.
The Glazers are the worst thing to ever happen to our club, but Ten Haag is fully to blame for Onana, not the leeches. If anybody deserves to share the blame it’s Ratcliffe for not insisting on a new keeper last summer, or prioritizing one this summer.
03 Sep 2025 18:31:16
FFS, ETH should not have been allowed dictate transfers on his own. The Glazers’ failure to employ competent people to run a football club created a situation where the manager was given full authority to rip up the contract offered to DeGea, and sign Onana.
And there is no comparison between the mistakes DeGea made, and the walking mistake Onana is.
03 Sep 2025 20:15:41
The highest paid goalkeeper in the EPL today is, according to a quick google, Alison on £150k pw. De Gea was apparently on £375k at the end of his contract. The club quite rightly walked away from a contract renewal that would have kept him as by far the highest paid goalie on the EPL. There were figures qu9ted then, if I remember correctly, still well into the £200ks per week. Furthermore we simply don't know any of the other details of the negotiation like, for example, bonuses, duration of renewed contract etc. We really don't even know for sure that DDG wasn't more interested in spending some time with his wife and child. People make the assumption that it was all the club's fault. Maybe it wasn't.
The long and short of it is that at anything over £150k per week De Gea was being overpaid and the club made the right decision IMO to walk away from a contract renewal that would have kept him as by far the highest paid keeper in England. The fact that we then went ahead and acquired Onana, our worst goalie in living memory, is not relevant. The two events are mutually exclusive. Had we bought a really good keeper on £100-£125k per week the whole DDG controversy would be moot. No one would be complaining. - which kind of proves my point.
05 Sep 2025 06:04:39
people are being revisionist. ddg was mistake prone and was quite poor his last season including the fa cup final loss to city and would have been a disaster on crosses given the current thing that arsenal does and all teams seem to be copying. he had to go but onana has to go too, been here long enough to clean up his act and seems to struggle. we move on from both.
{Ed077's Note - but the keepers who replaced him are just as bad at the "weak" parts of DDG's game while also being bad at his "strong" parts. The goalkeeping department is weaker now than when DDG was "quite poor"
05 Sep 2025 17:30:39
DdG slander!
Top keeper, multiple player of the year.
He did drop a few clangers towards the end and at the beginning and yes he wasn’t amazing at penalties.
But to compare him to the popadom wristed Onana is complete fallacy.