but he still keeps getting picked? By England, by Silva, by Ferguson and now Carlo.
Why is that? Lack of competition?
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but he still keeps getting picked? By England, by Silva, by Ferguson and now Carlo.
Why is that? Lack of competition?
We can't possibly have seen enough of him over the past few seasons to judge fully. He's played about 8-10 games each season if that. A smaller sample size.
I like him, to be clear. I think he's a good option to have and would definitely, 100% push Pickford and be good enough to take over. But he has plenty of weaknesses too and is six years older, so any deal would have to be right.
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Can people stop with that “England number 1” thing. It’s meaningless. Just watch the games for Everton. He’s been a liability for 2 seasons and already showing cracks again this season.
I'm not mate. Pickford has been atrocious at times over the past season.
But i've seen Romero have some absolute stinkers too.
He couldn't get in over De Gea who for three seasons has been poorer than Pickford.
That's not just down to Jose/OGS.
To be clear, I think he's a solid goalkeeper. Probably at this time level with Pickford. But he has hardly played, and he has made howlers too - remember him making a fair few when Utd won the EL that he got away with. So we shouldn't go overboard saying he's far, far better, because he isn't (definitely)
How can you judge that he's not a big upgrade on Pickford then?
He could well prove to be, but he isn't definitely. People are speaking like he's a top-10 GK in the league. He can't possibly be as he's hardly played. That's my point.
Maybe if Romero was playing 40 games a season, we would see that, is my point - albeit made badly.
I just mean he's not a player who has been playing consistently so it is hard to be saying he's definitely better, or definitely worse. He's probably about the same if we're being honest, but we're all so sick of Pickford making the same mistakes.
To again be clear, I think he'd be a good signing for us. It doesn't appear like we are in for him but who knows. It'd definitely make sense, if the deal was right. I'm not sure he'd be able to come straight in and command first choice, though.
If you insist people can't say he's a big upgrade on Pickford because we haven't seen much then you can't tell people he isn't.
Simple.
You're probably right - we haven't seen enough of Romero to judge him - but I tell you what I've see more than enough of Pickford.
De Gea has sank for sure, but he is nowhere near as poor as Pickford, every metric you can look at backs that up over the last two years.
Frankly, if there was a way we could wrangle DeGea on loan, that would also be a massive improvement.
My point was poorly made.
You are insisting - along with a few others - that he's definitely better. I don't think 3 years of someone sitting on the bench proves that.
In the games he has played in that time, he's done good things and bad things. It's a smaller sample size than Pickford, too.
So I don't think we should say he's definitely better, or granted, definitely worse. It's not like it's Yann Sommer or Nick Pope etc etc, who are starting 40-50 games per season.
I also don't think £10m and £100k a week on a 33-year-old GK who has been on the bench for 3/4 seasons is good business. If we can get him for cheaper, then i'm totally happy and think we'd have two GKs to push each other.
I mean I can think of more high profile, definite errors that De Gea made last season over Pickford, mate.
That's not to say De Gea isn't a better GK than Pickford, btw. He clearly is, just saying I think in the clanger stakes, he's made more.
I don't think it's bad to sit on the bench behind a £300k Spain international keeper every week mate. If he was second choice at WBA for 3 years then different story.
We'd be signing a keeper everyone widely agrees should be a Number 1 somewhere - we wouldn't be signing a Lee Grant.
And to be honset, I think it's more impressive how well he's played for United considering the gaps between his appearances and no chance to build up rhythm and momentum.
It appears the management are happy (loosely) for now because they know realistically we can't replace him with anyone definitely better with the money we currently have.
That's the situation we're in.
If they thought Romero was definitely better, I'd imagine he'd be here already.
But that GK you mention has made loads of clangers too and there's been consistent calls for him to be dropped.
We both agree Romero is decent, at least. I'm just not gonna say he's our saviour!
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