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Manchester United legend Gary Neville has made it clear that his outdated membership must signal a brand new goalkeeper after Sunday’s 1-0 defeat to Arsenal.
Riccardo Calafiori scored the winner for the Gunners after an terrible error by Man Utd goalkeeper Altay Bayindir.
Bayindir began over Andre Onana, who has additionally been a fairly poor performer for the Purple Devils in latest occasions, so it’s not too shocking that Neville needs to see a brand new ‘keeper be a part of.
Talking after the sport, Neville named Aston Villa shot-stopper Emiliano Martinez as the best signing to return in and be United’s new primary.
Gary Neville urges Man United to signal Emiliano Martinez
“There’s a obvious concern for Manchester United that may’t be ignored and that’s that they do must discover a goalkeeper,” Neville stated on his Sky Sports activities podcast.
“That must be sorted both with a everlasting signing or a mortgage. The 2 that you simply take a look at which have been talked about in the previous couple of weeks are Martinez and Donnarumma.”
He added: “We’ve seen Martinez play in World Cup finals. They’ve performed below excessive stress and so they can deal with it. Man United want that.
“I feel they should type the goalkeeper out as a result of they are going to preserve conceding objectives and factors and it undermines what you’re doing.
“I’ve stated it for years, you want character, character and stability in that place. I feel United must take care of it within the subsequent couple of weeks.”
Positives to take from United’s defeat to Arsenal
If not for the error by Bayindir, we might nicely have seen United beat Arsenal right now.
MUFC dominated a lot of the sport, with Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya needing to make some very good saves to protect the clear sheet.
If United had somebody like Martinez and a bit extra luck in entrance of purpose, then there’s absolutely the making of an honest workforce there.
