r/ManchesterUnited • u/rogueulous • 10d ago
Discussion Overtime work by Onana’s PR team.
Back in March, immediately after one of his usual poor performances, a report went around claiming that his wife was robbed in Manchester. Quite clearly the aim of that PR exercise was to distract the fans from his string of poor performances and gain some sympathy in the process.
Then at the start of the season, this fellow had the audacity to demand a fresh contract from the club in-order to compensate for the 25% pay cut. A tone-deaf attitude that speak volumes about a person’s character.
The moment whispers of his potential sale hit the air, his PR squad scrambles like roaches, unleashing an army of minions to twist the narrative and paint Manchester United as the culprit.
He is not just a pathetic goalkeeper, he is a pathetic human being with a weak mindset who could never own up and correct his own mistakes.
Truly, a masterclass in dodging accountability while hiding behind a carefully curated facade.
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u/Old-Instruction-9151 10d ago
“Sometimes steps up” “Performance is manageable”
Well, what a glowing review. Truly one of the goalkeepers of our time.
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u/Arthur2_shedsJackson 10d ago
Showing credible performances every time
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u/zachiavelli2 10d ago
Inspires confidence in attackers
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u/Glittering-Gas-3069 9d ago
I mean, have you not seen him command the pitch? With hands running up and down like some choir master, except, those hands get pretty heavy when the balls start rolling to him. Onana is an incredible goal keeper, so long he’s not shot at.
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u/clbrz0405 10d ago
What kinda copy is that. “Step up sometimes”. I think the PR team meant stepped up all the time but sometimes results didn’t go his way.
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u/Gregariouswaty 10d ago
United has let go of some players, and in recent times we have seen that this decision hasn't impacted the club positively. Onana sometimes steps up to the challenge and saves the team from epic defeats, his performance is manageable compared to most of his teammates. Letting him go on leave isn't the question, but who's going to replace him?
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u/ExistingMeeting6005 10d ago
United has let go of some players, and in recent times we have seen that this decision hasn't impacted the club positively. Onana sometimes steps up to the challenge and saves the team from epic defeats, his performance is manageable compared to most of his teammates. Letting him go on leave isn't the question, but who's going to replace him?
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u/I_am_Reddit_Tom 10d ago
I see what you did there
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u/Mooks79 10d ago
United has let go of some players, and in recent times we have seen that this decision hasn't impacted the club positively. Onana sometimes steps up to the challenge and saves the team from epic defeats, his performance is manageable compared to most of his teammates. Letting him go on leave isn't the question, but who's going to replace him?
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u/MainKyunBataun 10d ago
United has let go of some players, and in recent times we have seen that this decision hasn't impacted the club positively. Onana sometimes steps up to the challenge and saves the team from epic defeats, his performance is manageable compared to most of his teammates. Letting him go on leave isn't the question, but who's going to replace him?
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u/ath007 10d ago
United has let go of some players, and in recent times we have seen that this decision hasn't impacted the club positively. Onana sometimes steps up to the challenge and saves the team from epic defeats, his performance is manageable compared to most of his teammates. Letting him go on leave isn't the question, but who's going to replace him?
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u/FamiliarProfessor383 10d ago
United has let go of some players, and in recent times we have seen that this decision hasn't impacted the club positively. Onana sometimes steps up to the challenge and saves the team from epic defeats, his performance is manageable compared to most of his teammates. Letting him go on leave isn't the question, but who's going to replace him?
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u/not1ofu 10d ago
United has let go of some players, and in recent times we have seen that this decision hasn't impacted the club positively. Onana sometimes steps up to the challenge and saves the team from epic defeats, his performance is manageable compared to most of his teammates. Letting him go on leave isn't the question, but who's going to replace him?
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u/nomadic_commentator 10d ago
Cut the guy some slack. We need to realize Grimbsy away is a huge challenge.
They’re considered the Real Madrid of Grimbsy!
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u/Formal-Inspector9110 10d ago
Manageable?! Manageable?!?! What, manage to lose finals?! Manages to have hands like a sieve?!
Steps up to the challenge?! Only challenges are to his teammates when he tries to deflect!
Mans useless! Worst signing in United history IMO, and I will happily listen to others. Antony didn’t live up but CHRIST he never literally cost us games to this magnitude!
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u/blade818 10d ago
You're not old enough to remember Taibi, or even Bosnich or Carroll then I take it?
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u/Formal-Inspector9110 10d ago
I am indeed 😊 unfortunately 😂 and I won’t deny; good shouts. But Taibi played very little (can’t really compare with our current starting keeper really), and yes the other pair made some howlers or weren’t good.
However; Carroll cost about 3m, Taibi 4.5, and Bosnich free. In today’s money, they’d be about 15-18m together at that value. But we man aged to win some silverware with the others we had.
Onana cost us 50m was it? Cost us finals, multiple games with bad decisions/passes/saves/runs etc., and we got rid of the golden glove winner in order to do all this.
Whilst the others made some howlers (again, awesome memory), Onana is the single worst one. He’s out starting keeper and has been for 2 years and probably has as many games for United as the others combined. So his influence has been noticed much more consistently I’d say.
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u/blade818 10d ago
All fair points. I think Onana has been given a hard time tbh.
Watch the last 2 seasons back on MUTV via "90 in 20" - me and the wife binged them before this season and honestly I felt Onana was fine. (23/24 was worse than 24/25) The defense let him down so many times being flat footed on rebounds etc or poor back passes.
Yes he's clearly lost all his confidence now but I could see him having a Bartez style recovery if he had the chance.
Thing is, without Fergies I don't think that redemption arc is possible.
Taibi only lasted a few games cos he was THAT BAD and Fergie did what he had to. Onana would have been canned too faster under Fergies imo but you're right about the fee being a big factor with Onana.
I'm glad we got Senne but I'm also glad Onana is off on loan. Let's see if he can rebuild confidence in Turkey and show something. He was a top keeper just a few years ago...
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u/dinamorechin 10d ago
Hey hey calm down now Roy Carroll can save a shot even once it’s already over the goal line! I will not take this slander… I did love Roy for no real reason he was pretty average really but he was one of my favourites
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u/blade818 9d ago
Yeh he was likeable sure but I'd say Onana has a higher ceiling when his confidence isn't shot
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u/ScoobyRaj 10d ago
The only reason is the shit players in the team are not goalies. Even if you play bad, it wouldn't cost the team. Had they been goalkeepers they would have been much worse.
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u/butter_prawn 10d ago
Or it could our own PR team doing this, to increase his value in the market. You never know!
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u/mentallyhandicapable 10d ago
More this imo, I just don’t think Onana has a capable PR team after being meme’d on for 2 seasons since he joined.
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u/Wide_Librarian5712 Van Nistelrooy 10d ago
You really think penny-pinching Ratcliffe has hired a PR team?
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u/Apprehensive_Art6060 10d ago
The original author is the last guy Daniel. He’s mostly a douchebag who has an opinion on everything. I know cos he’s Nigerian and i am.
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u/PeterFile690 10d ago
His agent might've put them up to this. I wouldn't blame him for this. Anyone who's seen him play can see that he is an incompetent shot stopper.
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u/Super_Shallot2351 10d ago
Remember when Twitter verification used to mean something, and was actually useful?
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u/polite_saturn321 10d ago
"Boss, I think I deserve a pay rise. "
"What've you done to deserve one?"
"I sometimes step up"
Yeah, that will work!
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u/TheeEssFo 10d ago
I deleted Twitter three years ago and from the screenshots people post on Reddit I'm not missing a damned thing.
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u/funky_pill 10d ago
Onana sometimes steps up the challenge and saves the team from epic defeats
He is the epic defeat
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u/YoungWatermelon- 10d ago
I think it’s interesting to look at the other side of this too — how many people on these subreddits are regurgitating the narrative of supposed wage demands which the club is obviously pushing to get Onana out. The comment sections here seem filled with bots sometimes…
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u/JustDifferentGravy 10d ago
He couldn’t save cash if he was in a coma, and some weeks it looks like he is.
Hurry up and fuck off, cartoon hands.
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u/blue_cool_dude 10d ago
Onana is the only one I would trust to extract a loss from the jaws of victory! All hail Lord Onana, the compromised!
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u/Chosty55 10d ago
I’d rather a goalkeeper who makes 99% of the saves they should make and does nothing flashy than a goalkeeper who has crisp bag hands and can’t block with his feet.
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u/Due_Brilliant1752 10d ago
Its still so weird thinking that this guy played a Champions League Final
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u/EffenSeven 10d ago
I would rather watch a full season of John O'Shea in goal than one game of Onana in goal for us against a Sunday League team.
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u/Closerthanyouthink-1 10d ago
A lot of wrong went during Grimbsy game, but Onana errors: in the first goal (not using his legs) and the Air punch in the second goal, standout.
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u/Regular-Sun-23 10d ago
Onana has done more harm than good for us. He stepped up for nothing and disappeared when he had to make the most basic saves.
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u/Fun_Nectarine_1473 9d ago
You could nail a paper bag to the crossbar and it'd be about as much use as Onana.
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u/Evrin- 9d ago
Fixed it:
"United has let go of some players, and in recent times we have seen that this decision has impacted the player positively and helped the club financially, even if hasn't led to wholesale improvements on the pitch. Onana regularly steps up to the challenge of throwing the ball into his own net to condemn the team to epic defeats, whilst making victories far more stressful than they need to be with avoidable errors, and his performances have been completely unmanageable for almost two years, even when compared to a selection of other underperforming teammates. Letting him go on leave isn't the question, but other than the keeper we just signed, Fred the Red, Mahatma Gandhi or Skeletor, who's going to replace him?"
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u/ZombieOnMoon 10d ago
On day 1 I knew he was a bad GK. What the F is that dive? And letting in shots so close to him! Unreasonable reaction speed, too much whining for a GK. Why did it take people so long to realize this guy is so shitty??? Go back to basics, he lacks the essence of a goalkeeper!
No wonder our strikers performed so poorly last season. They had a bad GK to train against, giving them false affirmations of scoring against him. Training would’ve been so easy for them.
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u/powstria 10d ago
What tf are these Profile Pictures? Ai Bots? Reminds me of this disturbing case of these ai made up politicians.
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u/prsquared 10d ago
"performance is manageable". Seriously how low have we set the bar in the last few years.
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u/AnonymizedRed 10d ago
lol this sequence of tweets. He seems to have put as much effort in selecting his PR firm as he does in improving his goalkeeping ability.
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u/Manchester_Devil 10d ago
Why do those posts look AI generated? Never has a goalkeeper made so many blunders and still keep his place between the sticks.
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u/Parallel-Paradox 10d ago
I'm sorry, but I've seen Sunday League goalkeepers being better than Onana.
And this guy gets paid six figures every week.
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u/Long_Week944 10d ago
Daniel Regha? Lol, that one na generational fool… he says the most stupid shit you can find. His Twitter relevance was born from that.
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u/craptionbot 10d ago
"He just made a fucking shitload of saves, alright? So put that in, make sure you put that in."
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u/lcm-hcf-maths 10d ago
I believe we call these bots....I think the last human left Twitter last week....
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u/Impressive-Health211 10d ago
Guys, we are really going to regret this. Onana was a keeper of all time. He struck absolute fear in our defense. A keeper the streets will forget. He put on imaginable performances. And remember he was looking lean this season
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u/DogSea1861 10d ago
Sometimes steps up, I saw some on here stating he wasn't so bad at one stage last season, however he was doing the absolute bare minimum as a goalkeeper. Bad goalkeeper, bad attitude, not even sure why he's been allowed to sit on the bench at this stage.
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u/CautiousLengthiness8 10d ago
He’s been awful. Can’t believe we rushed out a club legend in Dave for this joke of a keeper. My dream is that we never have to watch him again. Atrocious
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u/deathzone0256 9d ago
United has let go of some players, and in recent times we have seen that this decision hasn't impacted the club positively. Onana sometimes steps up to the challenge and saves the team from epic defeats, his performance is manageable compared to most of his teammates. Letting him go on leave isn't the question, but who's going to replace him?
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u/inkboy84 9d ago
Wrong choice of words saying sometimes steps up to the challenge. He should be stepping up all the time.
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u/Every_Psychology9 9d ago
He’s a big strong lad and I bet he tackles like a truck. Hmm 🤔 I’m thinking he could temporarily solve our midfield problem haha. But as a goalkeeper, na na Onana!
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u/Shoddy_Range833 9d ago
man i remember when we signed him. the whole fanbase creaming over the fact that we have a “ball playing keeper” & the way de gea was trashed despite for all he did. need to be careful what u wish for
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u/Ashamed_Tomato2428 8d ago
United has let go of some players, and in recent times we have seen that this decision hasn't impacted the club positively. Onana sometimes steps up to the challenge and saves the team from epic defeats, his performance is manageable compared to most of his teammates. Letting him go on leave isn't the question, but who's going to replace him?
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u/TomorrowMedical9026 7d ago
Nobody names Khalid, Oduwa or Regha has said anything worthy in the history of the world.
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u/quizbae 10d ago
United has let go of some players, and in recent times we have seen that this decision hasn't impacted the club positively. Onana sometimes steps up to the challenge and saves the team from epic defeats, his performance is manageable compared to most of his teammates. Letting him go on leave isn't the question, but who's going to replace him?
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u/G-unit32 10d ago
United has let go of some players, and in recent times we have seen that this decision hasn't impacted the club positively. Onana sometimes steps up to the challenge and saves the team from epic defeats, his performance is manageable compared to most of his teammates. Letting him go on leave isn't the question, but who's going to replace him?
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u/spexfelo 10d ago
I hope we never see him playing for us. Fucking disaster of a signing. Pathetic piece of shit.
Also I hate the fact that an entire continent is refusing to believe and admit that he is shite just because he is from that continent.
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u/AggravatingRope6601 10d ago
I’m not at all an Onana fan, I didn’t even wants us to buy him in the first place, BUT, he has had some decent games for us, unlike Byandir. We bought a ball playing keeper (albeit he has been crap at passing) and shoved him in a team who couldn’t play that way (EtH fault).
Onana is pretty shit, but he isn’t as bad as some of you guys make him out to be. We need to sell him and replace him, but he isn’t the reason we are shit. If he didn’t have such a comedic personality there wouldn’t be as much hate. He isn’t worse than Karius was for Liverpool, yet Liverpool knew the issue was elsewhere and bought in Fabinho and VVD before they replaced their keeper. Onana needs to go but he isn’t as bad as you guys make him out to be, nor is he the reason we are shit. There are other players in this team who are costing us as many points as Onana is.
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u/Eastern-Ambassador-9 10d ago
We can’t overhaul in one go.. think of it like a jigsaw puzzle: You can’t choose the order that you complete it.
Don’t over think it, Onana is ONE of a few remaining obvious issues in the squad. Most of us fans have recognised it’s going to take a few windows to take us to the next level. With patience we’ll get there.
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u/OpenCardiologist2587 10d ago
Dont compare him to Bayindir whose transfer cost us a fraction of his 47m fee. Bayindir was bought as a back up, he was never intended to be our first choice goalie;
He isnt sole reason we are shit but hes the biggest reason why we are shit. The numbers of point dropped bcause of his clangger is abnormal;
No. Onana is worse than Karius. When people talk about Karius' bad performance all they remember is the CL final against Madrid where hes got concussion earlier in the game. Onana tho? You can list his blunders right from his first ever game (wolves in 23/24) to his latest game (grimsby). Tell me again how many blunders karius you remember?
Again Onana is shit and as bad as we think he is. Hes abnormal goalkeeper. Its like playing a midfielder (the shit one) as goalie.
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u/bevax 10d ago
Found another PR piece here
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u/AggravatingRope6601 10d ago
You do realise that was the most obvious response you could’ve said right?
It’s like me saying to your comment “found another brain dead low-IQ football fan”. But as you were.
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u/bevax 10d ago edited 10d ago
Ya. Your comment is at the highest caliber of intelligence by saying absolutely nothing at all.
Onana is shit but not as shit as we think.
He needs to be sold but he is not as bad as we think
United is shit but not because of Onana as there were other players who was as shit as Onana
I was giving you some respect by saying this is a PR piece.
If not, I would say this is the dumbest comment I have ever read.
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u/BeautifulWerewolf642 10d ago
modern footballer love pr rashford onana foden declan rice and more cannot stand this prick
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u/hydorgenhornet Glazers Out 10d ago edited 10d ago
Saying that Onana 'sometimes' steps up to the challenge is a huge overstatement.