Former Manchester United star Alex Stepney claims http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 Ferguson paid £18.9 million.
The Spanish shot stopper arrived in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 last summer under pressure to live up to high standards of Edwin Van Der Sar.
In the initial stages, De Gea faltered on more than one occasion and was ridiculed by fans and pundits alike. And Ferguson’s faith in him began to wane.
The Scot began to name http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786.
The Spaniard, although nervous at the start, churned out the most memorable performance in his United career, single-handedly rescuing the Red Devils from a certain defeat after saving Juan Mata’s free-kick in injury time.
Since then the former Atletico Madrid man hasn’t looked back and has built on his displays, earning an undisputed starting slot in the first team.
Ex-United goal keeper Alex Stepney is De Gea’s latest admirer and claimed that the La Roja International had now developed into the kind of keeper that was needed at Old Trafford.
“I think he became a British goalkeeper in the game at Norwich. He came out and he started catching the ball. It gave the defence confidence in him. It was always a question of how long it would take for him to settle.”
“He is only a young lad and he had played his whole career in a different league – and there is no league like this. “He didn’t have the basics – things like taking crosses. There was never a problem with his distribution or organization, but he had to learn
very quickly the basics of being a goalkeeper.”
Stepney also went on to say that the goalkeeping style in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011 was different, which had probably been the main factor in De Gea’s slow development in Manchester, but reiterated that the youngster was now performing at his best and was soon going to be a
title winner, if he kept his good form going.
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