{"id":2821,"date":"2025-09-08T18:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swazidailynews.com\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:35:02","slug":"manchester-uniteds-goalkeeper-woes-will-onanas-exit-fix-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/2821\/news\/world\/manchester-uniteds-goalkeeper-woes-will-onanas-exit-fix-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United\u2019s Goalkeeper Woes: Will Onana\u2019s Exit Fix Anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"202\" data-end=\"410\">Manchester United\u2019s long-running goalkeeper crisis is once again under the spotlight as Andr\u00e9 Onana prepares to leave on loan. Yet his departure may do little to address the deeper problems at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"412\" data-end=\"817\">Onana, a \u00a347 million signing from Inter Milan in 2023, arrived as the successor to David de Gea but never convinced as a No. 1. His debut was marred by an error against Wolves, and two seasons of costly mistakes followed. His nadir came last month, when he was culpable in a shock Carabao Cup defeat to League Two side Grimsby Town, before saving just one of 13 penalties in a humiliating shootout exit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"819\" data-end=\"1159\">The Cameroon international is hardly the first United goalkeeper to fall short. Massimo Taibi, Mark Bosnich, Fabien Barthez and Roy Carroll all failed to match the standards set by Peter Schmeichel and Edwin van der Sar. But Onana\u2019s inconsistency has only reinforced the sense that United\u2019s most important position has been left to drift.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1161\" data-end=\"1635\">United\u2019s recruitment has done little to help. Altay Bayindir, signed for just \u00a34.3 million from Fenerbahce in 2023, has struggled badly when called upon. Veteran Tom Heaton remains overlooked, while new signing Senne Lammens, a 23-year-old from Antwerp, is viewed internally as \u201cone for the future\u201d rather than an immediate solution. Sources in Belgium have described him as promising but \u201cunconvincing when dealing with crosses\u201d \u2014 hardly reassuring in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1637\" data-end=\"2032\">Coach R\u00faben Amorim wanted proven quality. A move for Argentina\u2019s World Cup winner Emiliano Mart\u00ednez fell apart after United made only a low-ball loan offer to Aston Villa. There was even a fleeting enquiry about PSG\u2019s Gianluigi Donnarumma, but no deal materialised. Instead, Amorim must now decide whether to persist with Bayindir or throw Lammens into Sunday\u2019s Manchester derby at the Etihad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2823\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2823\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2823\" src=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4771568_1_org_2.81403672.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1132\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-start=\"2034\" data-end=\"2301\">The contrast with City is stark. Pep Guardiola strengthened by signing both James Trafford, tipped as England\u2019s next No. 1, and Donnarumma, widely regarded as one of the world\u2019s best. United, meanwhile, have gambled on youth while allowing their problems to fester.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2303\" data-end=\"2648\">For all the focus on new attacking recruits \u2014 Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo and Benjamin Sesko arrived this summer after United\u2019s paltry 44 league goals last season \u2014 the club has ignored a glaring weakness. Conceding 54 goals last term should have forced a rethink. Instead, Amorim is left with no reliable goalkeeper and no clear path forward.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2650\" data-end=\"2944\">Onana\u2019s exit solves one problem: removing a goalkeeper who had become a liability. But it leaves the bigger question unanswered \u2014 who can United trust to restore stability in goal? Until that is answered, the shadow of Schmeichel and Van der Sar will continue to loom large over Old Trafford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United\u2019s long-running goalkeeper crisis is once again under the spotlight as Andr\u00e9 Onana prepares to leave on&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,30],"tags":[79,55,71,50,53,54],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","category-world","tag-betway-premiership","tag-business","tag-champions-league","tag-international","tag-soccer","tag-sports","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manchester United\u2019s Goalkeeper Woes: Will Onana\u2019s Exit Fix Anything? 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