Manchester United may have picked many positives from their 1–0 loss in the Premier League opener against Arsenal, but their legend Wayne Rooney has warned that those positives will count for nothing if they do not sign a new goalkeeper.
Manchester United have struggled to deal with the goalkeeper situation since the departure of club legend David de Gea.
His replacement, Andre Onana, has failed to live up to the billing since arriving from Inter Milan, while his understudy, Altay Bayindir, has not been convincing.
With Ruben Amorim deciding to keep Onana out of the team, Bayindir started the game but was partly at fault for the lone goal of the match.
Rooney, United’s all-time top scorer, has said the club needs to work on the goalkeeping situation.
He said on his podcast. “I go back to when we had Roy Carroll and Tim Howard in goal; I don’t think there was 100% trust from the defenders in front of those two goalkeepers“
“But the minute Edwin van der Sar comes in and calms everything down, the defenders trust him a lot more. Onana’s come in; he’s a fantastic keeper, but he certainly didn’t fill us with much confidence last year,” he said.
United have been linked with a move for Italian keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.
“Donnarumma is 26, he’s one of the best keepers in the world, it’d be crazy if Man United don’t go for him ” he said.
United have up to September 30 to sign more players.
