Danny Murphy has backed transfer target to make a ‘massive’ difference to his potential new side.
with their need to find a new No.1 exacerbated by the departure of David de Gea.
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Onana’s press resistance and calmness on the ball represent key traits Ten Hag wants in a goalkeeper and his purchase would represent a major step forward in the Dutchman’s rebuilding project, according to Murphy.
‘Yeah massive,’ Murphy told talkSPORT when asked if Onana’s arrival would make a big different to United’s style of play.
‘I think it’s massive in the way that when you watch City, and there’s a really good press on them, from a good side, he (Ederson) is so comfortable missing out the first press with a lovely little ping out wide to a full back or a wide man who’s dropped, a full back who’s pushed on.
‘Or playing through the lines to someone’s feet, a 40 yard whipped ball that you expect a central midfielder or centre back to play – whip it through two players really quick into somebody’s feet so he can be on the turn and at you.
‘Because United have got so many technical players, with good spatial awareness, Fernandes, Mount, Casemiro, if you’ve got a press on Man United and De Gea’s got the ball at his feet, you know he’s not going to play clever little passes through into them boys, so you don’t have to worry about that you can really go after the press, knowing he’s got to kick it long.
‘Whereas if you’ve got the goalkeeper who’s got the capability – not just the technical ability to make the pass, it’s seeing the pass as well, that’s why Ederson’s the best, Allison’s not far behind.’
Murphy added that teams will have to play differently against United this season and opponents might get ‘bored’ of the tactics they would have employed to expose De Gea’s weaknesses.
He added: ‘I think a lot of teams who like playing on the front foot will still have a press, but what they’ll do is they’ll get bored quicker, and they’ll go, ‘woah, we’ve had a go, and they keep playing through us, and we’re gonna get battered’.
‘Because United have got great pace, whoever they sign as a nine’s gonna add quality, they’ve got Rashford, Antony.’
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