Manchester United’s season is not developing nicely, to put it mildly. Instead of challenging for the title or at least for the second place in the Champions League, they will fight with Aston Villa, Tottenham and Newcastle for the fourth spot and Champions League football next season. Speaking about the UEFA’s most popular competition, they are on the verge of elimination from the group stage, and will have to win at home against mighty Bayern Munich in order to have some chance of goint to the knockout stage. Reasons for the failure are many and recruitment is one of them.🗣️ Erik Ten Hag on Andre Onana: “If you analyze it well then you see he is the second-best goalkeeper in the Premier League based on stats, so his expected defending goals is the second-best in the Premier League.He is a strong character, he is a personality and he will deal… pic.twitter.com/1vysilR92i— Football Talk (@FootballTalkHQ) December 1, 2023 190 million euros were given for Rasmus Hojlund, Mason Mount and Andre Onana, and so far, they haven’t justified that money. And for former United captain Roy Keane, one of those three players is the flop of the year.“The biggest disappointment has to be Andre Onana. I think Manchester United were right to get rid of David de Gea, but for the club to have brought someone else in and for him to be struggling…“ Keane told the Stick to Football podcast.Jamie Carragher also thinks the same, but also added another name into the conversation – Arsenal’s David Raya.“The biggest disappointments in the Premier League so far this season would be the two goalkeepers at Manchester United and Arsenal, Onana and Raya. They’ve been quite poor after coming in as “improvements” from the previous keepers, and it’s almost stayed the same or even gone backwards with them coming in“ said Carra.Arteta wants Ramsdale to stay, the Spaniard reveals ahead of the Luton tieOnana had his good days, saving his teammates from some ugly defeats, but also contributed to some of them with the type of blunders you don’t expect from a player of that caliber. David Raya got the nod over Aaron Ramsdale and coach Mikel Arteta is sticking with him now, even thou he clearly struggles. For example, in a 4-3 thriller win over Luton, the Spanish keeper was guilty of two goals, and yet his countryman and coach backed him up. For outsiders and former footballers, who used to play alongside some great keepers in their time, these two players are still the biggest disappointments so far.ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 15TuesdayWolverhampton – Burnley 1-0 (1-0)/Hwang 42/Luton – Arsenal 3-4 (1-2)/Osho 25, Adebayo 50, Barkley 57 – Martinelli 20, Jesus 45, Havertz 60, Rice 90+7/WednesdayBrighton – Brentford 2-1 (1-1)/Mbeumo 27 pen, Hinshelwood 53 – Gross 31/Fulham – Nott.Forest 5-0 (2-0)/Iwobi 30, 74, Jimenez 34, 55, Cairney 86/Sheffield Utd – Liverpool 0-2 (0-1)/van Dijk 37, Szoboszlai 90+4/Crystal Palace – Bournemouth 0-2 (0-1)/Senesi 25, Moore 90+1/Aston Villa – Man.City 1-0 (0-0)/Bailey 74/Man.Utd. – Chelsea 2-1 (1-1)/McTominay 19, 70 – Palmer 45/Thursday22:30: (3.15) Everton (3.45) Newcastle (2.40)23:15: (1.80) Tottenham (3.90) West Ham (4.70)***odds are subject to change**
