Gianluigi Donnarumma | Done deal according to Romano

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Eddie has been great for us and it's been a pleasure seeing his fancy footwork and mad as fuck antics. He's brave as a lion and mad as a hatter but he's an average shot stopper, and terrible at saving pens. It seems he was tempted by Saudi money last summer but stayed. And this summer he said don't believe what's been said about his links to Galatasaray. I didn't make much of that as it feels like he's up to moving on.

Donna rum un Isnt anywhere near as good with his feet but regularly makes world class saves so I'd like us to sign him. Trafford is very promising and signed knowing he'll be an understudy and will get his chances when called upon. Ortega has been a decent keeper but never top class.. Makes sense to sign Donna rum un and sell Ortega I think.
 
We're not going to spend £50m on Donnarumma and £250k a week on his wages with the idea of making him fight it out with Trafford. He'll be coming in as number one and will be staying there.

It's pretty obvious that if Trafford knew this was going to happen he would have just gone to Newcastle.
Trafford will know what the score is, he was always going to be building up to be City’s number 1 in the future, this is where he always wanted to be.
 
It's not really that straight forward though.

One keeper would completely change our style of play and be on astronomical wages. The other costs way more than a backup should and clearly had no intention of being a long term backup.
Nobody knows what was said to Trafford except him and the powers that be.
 
Some Blues want us to go to Real Madrid away or Barcelona away with Trafford as our first choice GK LOL!
We all have high hopes for Trafford but he’s been playing Championship football. The jump from that to title-deciding matches, or big semi-final away nights in the CL is monumental. Some seem to think that having one season as backup to Eddie means that he’s then good-to-go and all risk has been removed. Trusting Trafford as our number one is a massive gamble, this year or next.
 
I reckon he was our first choice to replace Ederson, amongst the likes of Diogo Costa and that Spanish feller, and when we thought Ederson wasn’t leaving we pivoted to bringing in Trafford (accelerated by Newcastles interest) to rotate/ fight for number 1 alongside Ederson.

Now Galatasary seem to actually be making a move on Ederson, and Donnaruma could go to United, we’re forcing ourselves to go in for him.

Harsh on Trafford and poor planning imo, but what a goalkeeper he is.
 
I give you Forest away last season, my gran would have saved that.

How many other match winning saves can you name. I’ll will always love him for THAT night in Istanbul, but for me his head was turned last summer when he was lined up to go to Turkey and it never happened.
He helped in no small part to win four PL titles on the trot, I’m sure there’d have been a fair few match winning saves.
 
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