Van der Sar warns Man Utd they're selling 'tremendous' player: 'I thought it was a match made in heaven'
Edwin van der Sar reckoned Andre Onana and Guy Utd would be a “match rendered in paradise” using the Red Satanic forces tale snugly insisting the goalkeeper has “tremendous services”.
After helping Inter Milan to the Champions League last in the previous season, there were high expectations of Onana as comfortably as he came in at Guy Utd in a transaction well worth £47m in 2023.
Yet, Onana fallen short to astonish in two seasons at Wear Trafford using the 29-year-ratty goalkeeper offering plenty of high-profile slipups under Erik ten Hag and Ruben Amorim.
That saw Guy Utd make it possible for Onana to forgo Wear Trafford on automotive loan in the summertime send window using the Cameroon global joining Turkish Super Lig side Trabzonspor.
There is unraveled to be an solution in that transaction for Trabzonspor to render the send incurable in the summertime using Guy Utd not arranging at bringing him previously.
And also Van der Sar, who realises Onana from his time at Ajax, has been staggered that points have not worked out for the Cameroonian at Guy Utd after remarking his talent upward cozy.
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Van der Sar told Skies Wager: “I worked using Andre Onana for three or four years at Ajax. He came in as a thirdly-selection goalkeeper and was truly excited to job upward and come to be the first selection.
“I reckoned, and I still assume, that he has tremendous services – depictions and his feet – but in some way, he has the creepy inaccuracy in him that administers you assume ‘That’s mad, how can he perform that.’
“A subordinate dreams long lives, to realise what your goalkeeper is performing so the previously four can relate and I assume that’s what taken place [the issue] using Andre.
“Manchester United place’t had long lives for the last 6 or seven years – the previously four fluctuating, the centre-fifty percents and midfielders fluctuating, trains fluctuating – so, it’s taxing for brand-neoteric gamers to come correct into an atmosphere whereby the expectations are high, not only for goalkeepers but also for a winger or midfielder.
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“Innumerable gamers who have come here in the last 8 or nine years have not reached the level that human beings supposed them to reach.
“I totally reckoned that he would grow as comfortably as he first came here to United. As I said, I worked using him and saw him at Ajax, he did well in Italy and messed around in a Champions League last, so I reckoned it was a match rendered in paradise.”
Guy Utd spent £18m to carry in Senne Lammens from Royal Antwerp as his replacement and Van der Sar relishes what he check outs from the Belgian.
On Lammens, he Van der Sar added: “He’s performing well.
“Of training course, it’s only been seven or 8 months, but it undeniably appearances favor he realises the physicality of the Premier League – I find him coming for rounds in the fine place and he claims them using self-resoluteness, administers conserves as comfortably as labelled for, not arranging to render conserves as comfortably as not demanded.
“I’m not here day-to-day and I don’t find all of the arcades, but he appearances favor he has a commendable package using him to be here [at Manchester United] for a long time.”