Welcome Donnarumma!

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Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
I agree, it’s a gamble, but I don’t think we should be judging a what 20 year old keeper on one season. I can’t think of any keepers starting regularly at that age.
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No we shouldn't be judging a 20 year old keeper on one season which is why we've brought in an established, experienced, serial winner to play in goals instead

Trafford can learn from him and then let nature take its course
 
Damanino said:
will be an early shock to him imo that here in PL games are different even vs shit sides can be competitive than most of the games in French league. I am sure the bottom 6 clubs in Ligue 1 would struggle a lot vs the likes of Leeds, Burnley, Wolves...
also coming from fresh treble win to a side that looks to be in freefall after our treble win 2 years ago.

but he wasnt wanted there, was pushed out, we wanted him, offered him a good platform, top wages, hope he comes in to repay that.
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He played a heck a lot of games aginst the top PL sides last season and he was brilliant.
 
Some of Gigi's saves last season in the CL, not including his penalty saves against the dippers.

 
Some Fiserable Muckers who criticised Eddie are now complaining Donnarumma isn’t good enough. They need to grow up. Those who want a right back need to consider that we could spend £50m and he might do an ACL first game. It is always a gamble, and I think Pep and his backroom staff know a fuck site more than some of the morons who expect us to win every game.Get behind the club and the team, we have enough enemies without moaners.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
I think he means phat innit, bruh?

Raaaaars.
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Ste-CTID said:
He's in the 18th percentile for aerial duels, meaning that 82% of goalkeepers are better than Donnarumma when dealing with aerial balls into the box. This is probably the weakest part of his game.

He's a world-class shot stopper and has an amazing highlight reel, but he also has some significant deficiencies in his game.

I hope this works out and he goes on to be a City legend, but I have my doubts.
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You're not allowed facts.
 
BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
Cheers.

But I disagree.

Donnarumma is on current form one of the top two pure shot stoppers in world football.

PSG probably dumped Donnarumma due mostly to wage disputes - in spite of his not fitting their system ethier - high press, ball retention, build from the back.

But now we've signed him - and.. are far less capable of playing our system with him in goal b/c we don't have the back four that PSG had - every one of which can take the ball comfortably under pressure and cope with it.

Dias is slow. AIt Nouri isn't great. And Rico/Nunes under pressure... we'll you get the idea. Unless we're going to hoof it from the keeper quite often and somehow make this a winning tactic - then Donnarumma in goal for us means that we have a world class shot stopper who isn't good on the ball and we don't have the backfield to carry him... and we're built on ball retention which means that we'll try to build from the back with Donnarumma with resultant catastrophes.
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As I said before, which despite your superior tactical knowledge, you've completely ignored is that Ederson's passing had been nullified by the opposition. He was so good at it the opposition stopped pressing him. There were several games where the opposition just let him keep the ball and keep it he did. We had stand-offs at times where they didn't press him and he didn't pass it. Opposition manager's had identified that we wanted to move their players out of position by drawing them onto him and that it was a pointless tactic to press him. It was actually the long ball punting accuracy that became a bigger asset to us than his short game.

Our defence is just as capable of moving to receive the ball as PSG's. I don't know why you think they're tactically superior in that regard. We've been playing that way far longer than they have.
 
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