Gianluigi Donnarumma was associated this summer with a move to Manchester United, but in the past the Italy has had a receiving side of criticism from Rio Ferdinand
The destructive criticism of Rio Ferdinand on Gianluigi Donnarumma was once again emerging in the midst of the potential switch of the Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper to Manchester United. The Red Devils are said to be happy to cut the shot stopper after a Treble-winning campaign with PSG, Manager Luis Enrique could not convince him to keep him in his plans.
While Manchester City has reached personal conditions with the Italy International, United has been advised to take the opportunity to land his signature with his price tag that proves a bottleneck for their neighbors. Although the Italian is praised as one of the best keepers on the planet, Ferdinand has previously hit the United -White for one of his Champions League versions.
During a quarter-final collision with Barcelona last year, De La Liga Giants assured a 3-2 advantage over PSG to go into the return bone in the Camp Nou, with two of those strikes arising from Donnarumma errors. He was unable to collect a ball in his sentence, allowing Raphinha to open the score.
The decisive goal arrived when Donnarumma remained on his line from a corner, so Andreas Christensen let the competition winner go home. Ferdinand expressed his frustration on TNT sports and burned a “crime” for the star to fail in preventing both strikes.
He said at the time: “Mark the goalkeeper here. In the first half, the goalkeeper makes two mistakes of crosses. I think he said in his head:” I am on my line, regardless of what now, “and then drops the responsibility on the defenders to defend this fixed piece.
“That is in his six-year box. He is 6'7” or so. That is almost a crime that does not enter your six-year box and claims that. It was not a ball that was too high. It was there to attack, but the impact of the first half of errors led to that. That is a player at the top of his game who has to adjust his approach to a certain set piece because of performance. “
Despite this earlier criticism, Ferdinand recently also praised Donnarumma prior to his potential Premier League movement. On his YouTube channel, the former United Defender greeted the keeper as one of Europe's best, which suggests that PSG's desire to say goodbye to him is due to the changing nature of keepers in football.
Ferdinand said: “Have you seen things about Donnarumma? Wow. One of perhaps the best keepers in Europe last year wins a Treble. What I will do is to give you the quote from Enrique, which was brutal?
“But that is what I am. You know where you stand, but I don't think Donnarumma would have loved it. But let's do these quotes anyway.” Donnarumma is out of the team because it's my own decision. I am 100 percent responsible. “
“He said,” I want a different type of goalkeeper and I made this decision. ” Wow.
“If you are the best keeper in the world, the top club that wins everything at that moment never sells you because you are the best keeper in the world. He is perhaps the best keeper in the world in terms of saving the ball and things to put the ball in the net, but is he good enough with his feet?
“I think that is the question, and this is just the ever -evolving kind of identity of a keeper who is now very different. I played with so many keepers who could barely reach the halfway through the line. I couldn't really pick out no one on a consistent base.
“Some people could kick it far, but could not really have the direction to choose people. Nowadays you have to have accuracy, short and long, over different distances to be able to understand how you can play through the press. If it is two people, three people or a player who presses, like what goes behind that press?
“The keepers have now seen so much, they are now part of the 11. It used to be 10 players and the keeper; it is now very different. So Donnarumma lives in a different world of keepers, and I bet people like it [Gianluigi] Buffon, Edwin van der Sar, [Peter] Schmeichel, the best keepers of yesteryear are going there: “Wow, not in my time, that would never have happened.” “