This is a question that needs to be asked in light of his string of unacceptable performances this season.
Poor
The Spaniard delivered another one as Chelsea beat United 3-1 to advance to the final of the FA Cup, where they will play Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal. The final will be the first chance for two new managers, Frank Lampard and Arteta, to bring silverware to their clubs for the first time and will be keenly competed.
Manchester United gaffer Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had hoped to be in the same boat, but David De Gea left him high and dry.
Under pressure from Dean Henderson, who is currently impressing during his debut Premier League campaign with Sheffield United, United’s number one is fighting for his Old Trafford life like never before.
At Fault
De Gea was at fault for all three of Chelsea’s goals as he continued to put in underwhelming performance after underwhelming performance.
For the first, Olivier Giroud snuck a shot in at the near post but the ‘keeper got a weak wrist to it and should have done better.
Mason Mount’s, the second, was worse than the first as he managed to let a shot from distance squirm under his body.
The third was more difficult, but a man of his historic brilliance should have done better.
Upset
This isn’t the first mistake he’s made this season. Roy Keane was so upset with his performance against Tottenham that he claimed he’d come into the dressing room swinging punches at his goalkeeper for performing like that
His level over the past two seasons is so far below the man that used to occupy the United goal that we now need to ask ourselves if he’s finished. Or, at least, if he’s finished at this club.
With Henderson pushing for a place in the side, maybe it’s time to move De Gea and his massive salary off the books and give him a new lease of life elsewhere. At 29, he theoretically has many more years of top flight football left in him, but theory and practise are two very different sides of the same coin.