25 | Gianluigi Donnarumma - 2025/26

[Blue Hefner]

He’s the new Dias, Andy Morrison. A serious person

 

[come-on-barney]

Points saved starting to clock up.

 

[skillman]

That’s 2 points he got us today with that save. He’s a freak in goalkeeping world in the sense that Haaland is a freak in striking world. So obviously one of the best in the world - 26 but years of winning experience. We hit the jackpot.

 

[WestGorton]

Love the bloke. He gets it obviously.

 

[Leroy Leroy Leroy]

Thank you Gigi. And thank you board for buying him

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Makes great decisions. Comes for the ball and cleans up a lot of crosses. Not surprising seeing he's the best keeper in the world

Yep. He produces world class moments, but also does everything else to an amazing level. If he's making a fairly routine save, you know he's pushing the ball miles away from the goal rather than back into danger. If he's coming to punch, you know the ball is going miles away. He's calmly catching balls that other keepers would only parry. The only weak point is his kicking, and even that is only a weakness compared to Ederson. He's still as good as any other keeper in the league at it.

 

[117 M34]

Think he should be one of the captains next season

 

[Newman Noggs]

Given the apparent shift in the game towards playing for set-pieces, long throws and piling the ball into a crowded box at every available opportunity, Donnarumma is the ideal keeper.

 

[Skrastins]

never felt safer with him in goal, oozing confidence

 

[Gumzy97]

Igor Thiago is on form we saw the finishes against the rags. Difference is the big Don has won the psychological battle before a balls been kicked. His reputation etc is already in strikers heads. It's not I'm through on goal here I can score its. I'm through on goal but I've got to beat Donnarumma.

 

[Gumzy97]

 

[SWP's back]

Makes a huge difference that we’re not conceding from the first shot on target in half our matches.

 

[SWP's back]

The 1 on 1 was absolutely huge, I know Thiago got it stuck under his feet but his positioning to save the shot the moment he got it out of his feet was immense.

We're just miles better at the back since he signed.

I think last season we'd have feared that 1 on 1 but I think most thought he'd bail us out today which he did.

First time since Hart left that I still feel confident when a striker runs through.

 

[brian the blue]

Couldn't care less about his distribution, the players seem to trust him back there and we seem to be solid at the back during set pieces.

But you should care about his distribution though.

If we were accepting it’s shit and just pushed up field and let him try and hit Haaland from his goal kicks then fair enough. But we’re not, we’re still trying to pass out from the back with him and it’s going to cost us goals.

 

[King Jay]

We are getting less goals and some people are still not happy. Unbelievable. If his distribution is not ederson level but he saves us wins like yesterday - why would anyone care?

 

[jamielowndes]

Hes obviously not Ederson with his feet but the drop in distribution is not causing us any real issues at the moment.

Needed to be quicker on the pass out that got deflected, but that's something that's fixed by someone screaming "man on". He did something similar for PSG years ago.

But in total, I'm very happy with how he's done so far. Multiple clean sheets, phenomenal shot stopper and a huge presence for the defence. I was a big fan of him before he joined City so I'm thrilled with it so far.

 

[jamielowndes]

Given the apparent shift in the game towards playing for set-pieces, long throws and piling the ball into a crowded box at every available opportunity, Donnarumma is the ideal keeper.

Exactly.

English football is dumbing itself down and becoming simpler. Stick a big 6'5 tree of a man in goal and deal with it the old fashioned way.

 

[Gumzy97]

 

[JewelZee]

We are getting less goals and some people are still not happy. Unbelievable. If his distribution is not ederson level but he saves us wins like yesterday - why would anyone care?

Because they care more about their agendas.

 

[Lavinda Past]

I don't have sleepless nights now Donnarumma is with City.

Watching the 'return of the long throw' in the PL, I can't help but think just how much Ederson would panic in that situation, and I'm glad he's not around any more.