Manchester United goalkeeper big change!
After completing the signing task in the summer and starting the new season smoothly, Manchester United achieved 4 wins and 3 losses in 7 games in the new season. The result of the game was not good, but the team’s appearance was at least completely new. After signing 7 new aids to change the basic atmosphere of the locker room and strengthen the competition within the team, Manchester United has set its sights on players whose contracts have expired.
At present, the contracts of 9 players in Manchester United will expire in the summer window this year. If the contract cannot be renewed before the winter window, Manchester United may activate the automatic renewal clause for one year, or choose to sell in the winter window. Judging from the current situation, there is a high probability that Manchester United will continue to be active in the winter window, not only to sell players, but also to strengthen some immediate combat capabilities after the World Cup.
Among the 9 players, 3 players are Manchester United goalkeepers, which is the top priority that needs to be solved before Manchester United’s winter window. At present, after Manchester United leased the youth goalkeepers Kowal and Henderson, the first team only has De Gea, David Heaton, who are over 30 years old, and the backup goalkeeper Dubraf, who was loaned from Newcastle in the summer window this year. Card, whether it is a regular contract or a loan contract, will expire next year, and even Newcastle has a winter window recall clause. Once Manchester United’s strongest link, now only all of them are 30-year-olds whose contracts are about to expire. .
This means that Manchester United needs to consider deciding the future of these three goalkeepers in the summer window and even the winter window this year, so as to reorganize the goalkeeper link. Obviously, De Gea does not meet Ten Hag’s tactical needs. His goal line skills are still excellent, but under Ten Hag’s passing control system, De Gea’s passing success rate is still a huge problem. , De Gea’s pass success rate this season is only 58.5%, which is the player with the lowest pass success rate in Manchester United and the last player in the Premier League.
In the first two games of this season, De Gea had 2 serious pass errors, which caused the opponent to quickly steal the ball and send a counterattack, so that Ten Hag no longer asked Ten Hag to short the ball in the subsequent games. Instead, take a goal kick with a long pass. More importantly, De Gea’s 375,000-pound high salary for football’s first goalkeeper is an extremely critical factor.
It was discussed in the summer window that Manchester United’s behavior of renting Henderson was actually leaving the goalkeeper problem to the future to solve, but there is not much time in the future. So, did Manchester United opt to activate the automatic one-year extension, or what will be done? This is something that Ten Hag needs to make a decision on. Judging from the current situation, the goalkeeper position may be a key position for Manchester United in this winter window and even next summer window.
As for David Heaton’s contract processing result, it is very simple. After Manchester United leased De Gea, Heaton, who was the third goalkeeper, did not get the choice of the second goalkeeper. Manchester United still chose to loan veteran Duo from Newcastle. Bravka, this is enough to prove that Ten Hag doesn’t like David Heaton. The youth academy goalkeeper’s contract will also expire next year, and the possibility of him staying is very low. After all, Heaton can’t play a key role in the Manchester United dressing room like Grant.
Dubravka is on loan from Newcastle, and Manchester United does not seem to have added a buyout clause, so this signing is obviously used for emergency transition. Therefore, once Manchester United does not handle it well, the goalkeeper problem may erupt next season, and it is time to sign a main goalkeeper.
