Welcome Donnarumma!

[BillyShears]

Turns out Pep wanted him back in 2017 before they brought Ederson in. He loves him, and back then he felt that he could be trained to improve his play on the ball. There's obviously not been a huge amount of progression in that in the ensuing years, but Pep's feeling is still that he's a world class goalkeeper who can improve all aspects of his game.

This is much more of a Pep signing than I had originally anticipated it to be.

 

[jrb]

United clearly signed a better looking one.

A better looking Belgium……

 

[CΛL]

People swallowing the media narrative that Trafford has been used and abused by City.

I do wonder if the dips or rags had signed one of the worlds best keepers the media would be staffing until they were jizzing air.

Not everything is a conspiracy, plenty were on here saying it was harsh on Trafford weeks ago when it was announced we’d agreed terms with Donnaruma.

 

[jrb]

To the chant thread.

I’m sure it will be another rehashed shit chant.

We don’t to new annd original chants anymore.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

Welcome. And I hope you do well.

In another side you'd be world class.

But under this manager, where we prize ball retention highly... I honestly think that you're a misfit.

Your distribution is not great and unlike PSG, we don't have the ability to easily cope with this.

I think we'll try to play out from the back almost always with Donnarumma, and because of this, Donnarumma will be caught out much more than Ederson or Trafford.

 

[chris85mcfc]

Did he tell you this?

How is competing with Donnarumma any different to competing with Ederson?

Not sure who in the right mind thinks they can just jump from being the no1 at a team that just won the championship, to instantly being the no1 at a team that competes to be the best club in Europe every single season.

There's not a prayer that the club tells any player (Haaland aside) that they're guaranteed to start

 

[madloaf]

Donnarumma on the slide ask the BBC?

This the airtight PSG defence that just conceded three goals to mighty toulouse at the weekend.

 

[kupest]

I'm flabbergasted at how many people think we were gonna go into the season with a 22 year old from the Championship as our number 1.

Specially in possession Trafford looks really nervous still and the opposition senses that. That Spurs game ofcourse was very messy. We would have had the weakest GK pairing if we went in with Trafford+Ortega.

 

[mexico1970]

People swallowing the media narrative that Trafford has been used and abused by City.

I do wonder if the dips or rags had signed one of the worlds best keepers the media would be staffing until they were jizzing air.

Haven't even read the media mate, for me it's a strange transfer. Someone at the club must know we need a right back and I am assuming Trafford didn't come back just to be someone's number 2 for 6 years.

 

[kupest]

I actually feel for Ortega. He deserves to be starting for a top team but now he’s number three for us.

Nah he was shit last year and looked on skates most times.

 

[BillyShears]

Not sure who in the right mind thinks they can just jump from being the no1 at a team that just won the championship, to instantly being the no1 at a team that competes to be the best club in Europe every single season.

There's not a prayer that the club tells any player (Haaland aside) that they're guaranteed to start

Trafford will have known the score when he signed.

 

[Indaparkside]

Might actually see a penalty saved with this guy in between the sticks.

Still won’t be as good as Niall Quinn at saving them

 

[kupest]

32, clearly on the decline, 1 year left on his contract vs 26, just signed for a big fee and among the highest earners in the squad for the next 6 years.

Why are you pretending these are the same scenarios?

Its not a big fee. Its less than what we paid for Trafford. That said its the better outcome for City which is what should matter at the end of the day. Citys GK today>Citys GK on 31st August.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

32, clearly on the decline, 1 year left on his contract vs 26, just signed for a big fee and among the highest earners in the squad for the next 6 years.

Why are you pretending these are the same scenarios?

There are absolutely NO guarantees in football, as I suspect you know. Does Trafford think he can be better than Donnaruma? I’d imagine he does.

Off your logic no youngish player should ever sign for anybody, if they’ve got a mid 20’s top player in front of him.

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

United clearly signed a better looking one.

With Donnarumma, Haaland and nunes we’re slowly Turing into a team of munters. Rags still have that rat Fernandes so he top trumps all of our lot so we’re good for now.

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

Welcome. And I hope you do well.

In another side you'd be world class.

But under this manager, where we prize ball retention highly... I honestly think that you're a misfit.

Your distribution is not great and unlike PSG, we don't have the ability to easily cope with this.

I think we'll try to play out from the back almost always with Donnarumma, and because of this, Donnarumma will be caught out much more than Ederson or Trafford.

Why are you writing it as if he’s gonna read it and be upset.

 

[Eaststander1]

United clearly signed a better looking one.

He won't be diving much, he won't want his hair moving out of shape!

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Turns out Pep wanted him back in 2017 before they brought Ederson in. He loves him, and back then he felt that he could be trained to improve his play on the ball. There's obviously not been a huge amount of progression in that in the ensuing years, but Pep's feeling is still that he's a world class goalkeeper who can improve all aspects of his game.

This is much more of a Pep signing than I had originally anticipated it to be.

Considering there were only 2 teams that conceded less than 10 shots per game last season, Arsenal and City, maybe this is just the signing we need to turn some results round.

 

[Coljj]

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

I watched a game a while back, he was in net, can't remember who it was against, but wow, he was unbeatable that night. This guys special. I think a lot have already been brainwashed by the City hating media thinking every keeper needs to be Eddie and there's a lot of apathy towards him. I seen a few stats recently that put him very high with the top world class goalies with his feet, so he can't be that bad surely? We're never going to get another Eddie, its just not happening, the guy was a freak of nature. But what this guy will do a lot better than Eddie is command his area on crosses etc and save unsavable shots. Maybe Pep will start to change his style of play in time who knows? But what we have here is a GRADE A WORLD CLASS KEEPER and probably the World's no1 too. And his Mrs is fit as fuck :)