[han2503]

The names we're linked with already sound depressing to say the least. Let's see what happens

[han2503]

Good move AFAIAC.


If true, they have just told us how they feel about Donna vs. Lopez (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Don't think that should be any indication.

Donna is young, Italian and obviously talented. United have money to burn over nothing.

Still think that Lopez, right now is by far the better keeper and I'm stressing the now in this sentence.

I do admit that I have come to see that he has talent, and I had previously said that I don't really see anything special in him. He has done decently so far. With only a handful of errors which lead to goals. But aside from that, this has never been the point of my argument. Which has always been about having a keeper with a wealth of talent and experience, sitting on the bench while we're trusting a completely green and inexperienced 16 year old to play, who I do admit now, has talent but is no where near Lopez.

And at this point in time I do not understand taking this risk and not playing our best players at all times (in the league), especially when we have so many issues within the side especially in central defence and midfield

Han, your assessment is simply way off. He's a 16 year old keeper who is 6'5", confident on the ball (though he does give me minor heart attacks from time to time), a good shot stopper, and he hasn't made any major error in 11 starts. He's even made big saves to keep us in games. He's the real deal. If you think he's piss poor with the ball how would you categorize Lopez and Abbiati? Abbiati used to make at least one major give away a game with the ball at his feet and Lopez is incapable of more than booting it up the field which often leads to a loss of possession. I agree that he needs to work on his decision making. That's not an indictment of him a player though. He's demonstrated that he's remarkably quick on his feet for his size and he's been able to recover when he makes a mistake. I'm sure the coaches have noticed the same thing and are working on it with him.

Disagree about Lopes and his distribution, I personally think he's pretty good when it comes to playing it out. Abbiati I agree he's a total liability in that area.

Donna has had several moments where he's tried to overplay the ball and nearly ended up complete red faced because of this, against Roma he sent it into touch straight from a kick out about 4 or 5 times. But his distribution isn't really my issues with him, it's more about his decision making in terms of coming off or staying on his line and that's what really worried me. So far his mistakes in this area haven't really been punished, but I worry about when they do, because these are the kinds of errors that really do send his confidence at rock bottom

As I said above, this is not about his talent or potential, which I do now admit that he has, it's about not playing someone who at this point in time is the better option to be playing for this team. Simple as that really

[Forza Milan!]

Don't think that should be any indication.

Donna is young, Italian and obviously talented. United have money to burn over nothing.

Still think that Lopez, right now is by far the better keeper and I'm stressing the now in this sentence.

I do admit that I have come to see that he has talent, and I had previously said that I don't really see anything special in him. He has done decently so far. With only a handful of errors which lead to goals. But aside from that, this has never been the point of my argument. Which has always been about having a keeper with a wealth of talent and experience, sitting on the bench while we're trusting a completely green and inexperienced 16 year old to play, who I do admit now, has talent but is no where near Lopez.

And at this point in time I do not understand taking this risk and not playing our best players at all times (in the league), especially when we have so many issues within the side especially in central defence and midfield


Disagree about Lopes and his distribution, I personally think he's pretty good when it comes to playing it out. Abbiati I agree he's a total liability in that area.

Donna has had several moments where he's tried to overplay the ball and nearly ended up complete red faced because of this, against Roma he sent it into touch straight from a kick out about 4 or 5 times. But his distribution isn't really my issues with him, it's more about his decision making in terms of coming off or staying on his line and that's what really worried me. So far his mistakes in this area haven't really been punished, but I worry about when they do, because these are the kinds of errors that really do send his confidence at rock bottom

As I said above, this is not about his talent or potential, which I do now admit that he has, it's about not playing someone who at this point in time is the better option to be playing for this team. Simple as that really

IMHO for someone that young he is very good, and (more important) he is good enough to play for us. Keepers improve with age, I am sure the coaching staff will help him through his "rough edges".

Also it is good to see us giving space to our younger talent (if anything, we should be doing more of it).

[han2503]

IMHO for someone that young he is very good, and (more important) he is good enough to play for us. Keepers improve with age, I am sure the coaching staff will help him through his "rough edges".

Also it is good to see us giving space to our younger talent (if anything, we should be doing more of it).

The talent has always been questionable though

Do you remember the outcry to play Di Gennaro? Merkel? Cristante? And the even bigger meltdown when we sold Cristante and got actual cash for him instead of sending him on an endless cycle of loan deals? There really hasn't been a true talent to come out of the primavera in years. De Sciglio and Abate are both good players imo, and they're the only 2 to have made it as first team fixtures in over 20+ years if I'm not mistaken