Get the latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free It would have been harsh to axe David de Gea for Manchester United’s 2018/19 season-enders against Huddersfield Town and Cardiff City, but it would have been fair.
A string of errors towards the end of a chaotic season — both for De Gea and United as a collective — showed the Spaniard’s 2018 World Cup hangover had not subsided and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had a very credible alternative in Sergio Romero he ought to have used.
Solskjaer’s reluctance to play Romero was again evident the next season when the Argentine should have started key Europa League and FA Cup semi-finals, after impressing hitherto in both cup competitions.
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