We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
The week of Manchester United news continues today with the club confirming this morning that it has signed Atletico Madrid's 20 year-old keeper David de Gea for the princely sum of £17 million. I have to admit that that, as with Reginald Mordling, I've "never 'eard of 'im!" Anyone else know anything about this kid?
posted by The Blue Devil @ 12:30 PM
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
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I don't even know how to say his name!!!
His name was mentioned during Gary Neville's testimonial. Otherwise, I am not familiar with him.
I did a Wikki and discovered why we have not heard of him.He has only played for two seasons for the first team. De Gea is currently a Spanish Under-21 international. His greatest accomplishments were winning the Europa league last year and the Super Cup vs Inter last August. He was the keeper when the Under-17 team won the European Championships in 2007 and were runners up in the World Cup the same year. His greatest disappointment was just failing to make the World Cup squad last summer as he was named in the provisional squad of 30, but failed to make the final cut. He has never been capped as a full international.
Interesting stuff, MUR. Thanks for doing the research on de Gea. I wonder how United's scouts decided on him and when it was that he impressed them?
Further, do you see him as an automatic replacement for VDS? Or will Kusz become the starting keeper at OT?
No problem,BD. I am guessing that they scouted several keepers and De Gea must have impressed on multiple observations. I am guessing that he will start as I would be shocked to see Kusz starting after some shaky displays. At this point I would say that the battle for the starting spot is between De Gea and Lindegaard. I would think that preseason displays will be the determining factor.
Not worried at all about the keeping at the Em. We've lived through the shaky initial period of both Szcezny and Fabianski and now both are showing game after game that the competition at that position is good. You know what positions are crying out for reinforcement, even before we find out what will become of Cesc and Nasri. It ain't between the sticks at the moment.
By my reckoning, your goalkeepers lost you ten points in the Premiership this season. Add those ten points to your total of 68 points and you would have ended up in second pushing United right to the last weekend. At the same time, I suspect that goalkeepers such as Mark Schwarzer saved their clubs the equivalent. And of course Arsenal could have had Schwarzer for £15 million, less than what United just paid for a no-name 20 year old keeper from Spain.
Yes, the central defense and striker slots are bigger priorities but I'd argue that you can't contend for trophies without a better starting keeper than either Szecezny or Fabianski. You're a big club and you deserve a star goalkeeper between the sticks.
The thing that continues to kill me about watching Arsenal is that the team does the difficult things really well but it does the obvious schoolboy, routine kinds of things (e.g., defending corners) really badly. I would love to see Arsenal win things because I want good footballing teams rewarded for good play. But I suspect that if Arsene is still in charge next season, you'll still have his absurd "total football" philosophy and will still be giving up goals to long throws at Stoke.
Uh oh - the Guardian is reporting that the de Gea deal is not yet done, according to the keeper himself:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/may/26/manchester-united-david-de-gea
I can't agree with you. Once Arsene gave up on the Spanish waiter, our defensive problems can be boiled down to, the absence of Vermaelen for the season, the inclusion of Squilachi who couldn't put a foot right, the strange inattention to set pieces that you alluded to, and several brain farts by Djourou, Koz, and especially Clichy. Gael looked like he was working through a series of petit mal seizures because he'd run out to confront the danger, not put in a tackle, and not run alongside the trouble. Hopeless. Add to that, the curious decision to ask Song to change his role from defensive cover to supporting and joining into the attack, the defense lost us more than 10 effin' points.
The keeper just lost us the bleedin' Carling Cup.
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