Andre Onana and his demanding presence between the posts will only be a positive for Manchester United - and the players will enjoy it.
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The goalkeepers. The outcasts. The oddballs. The stranded.
It's a position that is so integral to football yet somehow went, and still does to some degree, go underappreciated. The transfer fees usually deemed acceptable to spend on them have beared this out.
Gianluigi Buffon's £47.6million move from Parma to Juventus in 2001 was an astonishingly high fee for the time but it wasn't rare to see outfielders go for that much by that point and it stood as the record for the most expensive goalkeeper until it was broken twice in the same summer in 2018. Buffon remains the third most expensive goalkeeper of all time but is in 89th place when you add outfielders to the mix.
Kepa Arrizabalaga tops the goalkeeper list as Chelsea spent a ludicrous £71.5m to sign him but he's still only 26th for all transfers. For such a crucial role, it is remarkably underrepresented in the biggest transfer of all time as teams deem players like Wesley Fofana, Raphina and Luka Jovic more important. Vast sums of cash will be splashed on outfielders without much thought but when it comes to those between the sticks the purse strings get tightened.
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This is bizarre because teams have proven a great goalkeeper can be one of the smartest investments you can make and often lead to success. Six of the top ten most expensive goalkeepers - Buffon, Alisson, Ederson, Thibaut Courtois, Manuel Neuer and Francesco Toldo - have all gone on to win multiple trophies including domestic titles and Champions Leagues.
Equally, not getting your goalkeeping signing right can have disastrous consequences, as Manchester United discovered.
Legendary goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel couldn't have left Old Trafford on a
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