“It’s the single most difficult position in English football being the Manchester United goalkeeper,” Gary Neville mooted earlier this month.
David de Gea has held the fort nobly for over a decade now, albeit with a few bumps along the way. He’s the last active current United squad member to have lifted the title - given Phil Jones has yet to complete a full training session under Erik ten Hag - having done so in 2013 under Sir Alex Ferguson.
The Spaniard showed his best attribute with yet more eye-catching saves in Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final win over Fulham, without which United could have been three goals down before the comeback.
