12 Jul 2025 14:34:49
Onana injured for a few weeks and will miss the tour. might be a blessing that and force our hand in the gk department at least. Although Vitek is rated so might see how he does.
{Ed077's Note - Elyh Harrison is highly thought of too no? Super young, even more so for a GK.
12 Jul 2025 15:58:35
Forgot about him, cheers ed. Talk of victor from botafogo too. TBH both our senior keepers are crap and need replacing…. here’s hoping.
12 Jul 2025 16:13:09
Well, we won't be finding a buyer for him then. ☹️.
12 Jul 2025 17:27:57
Ork looks like Onana caught the jones disease…injured during the window ?.
12 Jul 2025 17:55:35
Ah yes, a bad case of the Philly-Fibs. ?.
12 Jul 2025 18:55:30
Safest place for him to stay, he will be on injury table till window closes!
12 Jul 2025 19:20:31
If we have Harrison and Vitek, both of which are more than capable GKs, do we need a new shiny one, or, do we get them to compete for the two available spots.
The counter argument is we need an experienced head, my counter to that is Onana and Bayendir are experienced heads and they are crap.
13 Jul 2025 05:22:36
We certainly need an experienced GK, we can’t go into the season with a couple of kids, that would be utterly ridiculous, I appreciate you wanting to to play the kids, but come on your now saying let’s go for inexperience in goal, Zirkee our number 9, use kids in middle of park too, it’s lovely idea and would be a great story for the press United playing in the championship the following season!
{Ed077's Note - Heaton's there ?
13 Jul 2025 07:27:29
Our only two periods of sustained success came from playing kids.
13 Jul 2025 10:07:14
Never played them in goal. Neither of those will be our 1st choice keeper I'm pretty sure of that i doubt either of them will be 2nd choice either.
13 Jul 2025 14:16:19
Why not let them fight it out for a spot as part of the three GKs, assuming Bayendir is leaving. Clearly Onana is not leaving now.
Pretty decent incentive for them both.
13 Jul 2025 14:47:55
Maybe so, but never played a kid GK in any of those teams and your also looking back in time, there is talk of Vitek going down to championship for season long loan, so not sure RA shares your thinking that he is ready for the EPL, how on earth can you chuck a totally rookie GK in a team that’s already under huge pressure before a ball is kicked and behind a totally unsettled defence, that is also injury prone, slow and ponderous what a recipe for disaster that would be let alone killing a kids confidence before career even started….
Onana is bad enough at this level and he is a full of confidence personality!
You must want us relegated as you don’t want us signing a striker either! Wow.
13 Jul 2025 22:30:33
Is the defence as U settled as you suggest?
Maybe they are ready, maybe not, pre-season will help find that out.
We are battling for is table.
14 Jul 2025 00:10:37
We have a GK coach, I assume. who is more than capable of determining if either of these two, or the other stock we have in youth ranks, is ready to be exposed at this level.
My opinion is that if you are good enough, you are old enough, irrespective of your position.
I'm merely suggesting we throw down the gauntlet to the youth and say 'this is an opportunity to stake a claim in the first team setup'.
Some will thrive in that environment, others will crumble, at least given them exposure to the first team setup during preseason to see if any of them have what it takes to step up, is not the worst decision in the world.
The worst case scenario is that none of them are ready and they will understand that and loan would probably be warranted. Best case, one of them steps up and pushes Onana when he returns from injury for the number 1 spot.