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david de gea was poo in his first season with united, a lot worse than migs has been for us! I'm sure next season he will improve parts of his game and the most important part about a keeper is shot stopping, he's very good at that.

dont think u can blame an entire defence,its the tactic playing infront of goal and from the back.......Toure was brilliant start of the season and Agger and Skritel was top class defenders before...even our beloved Reina looked nervous and became the worst with this new play.

Other teams can play out from the back without looking crap! I agree that the system might not suit the players, but Rodgers has a vision and he need to build the team he wants. If that means that players have to go, so be it!

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When exactly were Skrtel and Agger top class? Skrtel had a decent 6 month period under Dalglish, other than that he's been poor since he joined. Aggers good on the ball but he's never been a "top" defender. If we go in to next season with either Skrtel or Johnson first choice I'll be dissapointed

Nothing's particularly wrong with our defence. Our home defensive record is actually pretty good, so that rules out the idea that we have a problem with any individual defender.
As the season progressed and we got a lot of media on our side, i think we just got a bit carried away with the idea of being a free scoring & entertaining side and spent more time in training the attacking part of the game, and abandoned our defensive discipline. It has almost paid off as well so I don't see a problem really.

If we don't win win the title tomorrow it will be because of the tiniest of details. I know it is based over 38 games but any single result could be to blame for our undoing. IE gerrard's slip against chelsea - if that hadn't happened we'd be top today and probably be the league champions tomorrow. Spending £50m on new defenders wouldn't have prevented that from happening.

I've not given up on Mignolet but he's not been as good as he was at sunderland which is a little disappointing. In truth he's been no better or worse than Reina was. When we were apparently in for Begovic or Mignolet, Begovic is the one I hoped we'd get. He even announced on twitter that he was joining us so I'm not sure what went wrong. There's still time for Mignolet to improve though and I can't think of many instances where he has actually cost us points. One thing's for sure though is that opposition teams see him as a weakness, hence the amount of crosses we have to deal with.

if we had a good DMF and our defense sat deep like normal with Gerard and Courtino feeding the strikers we would not have conceded so many,our defenders bombing forward did NOT really pay out with assist through the season it was mostly our strike force doing the magic actually on their own.

Exactly. None of our fullbacks are really prolific when it comes to scoring goals or even setting up others to score.

Johnson has scored 0 goals, has 3 assists and 9 clean sheets.

Flanagan: 1, 2 and 5.

Cissokho: 0, 2 and 3.

Enrique: 0, 2 and 3.

i think Skirtel are actually amongst the top 5 best defenders in the premier league this season.