Manchester City and Liverpool will share custody of the Golden Glove for a season but neither Ederson nor Alisson was the best goalkeeper.
10) David de Gea
It is from one of few positions of strength at Manchester United that David de Gea can tell “the people who don’t want to stay” to “just go”. Cristiano Ronaldo is the goalkeeper’s only genuine competition for the club’s Player of the Year award this season, although if the Spaniard does claim his fifth such crown it will not be in typical circumstances.
This was supposed to be the campaign which heralded De Gea’s protracted fall from a near-decade of grace between the sticks. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had his mind made up for him by Dean Henderson’s pre-season COVID setback and Manchester United’s precarious Champions League status and early domestic cup exits restricting his opportunities to state a subsequent case. De Gea has capitalised on that reprieve, not missing a single Premier League minute and preventing the club from plumbing even further depths.
9) Nick Pope
Once described as ‘the most naturally-talented player to progress through the ranks at the West Suffolk Sports Academy and Bury Town’, complete with a hyphen that the Burnley goalkeeper himself couldn’t save, Nick Pope has long carried a potentially ruinous burden. The partner of Kevin Horlock’s daughter almost double-handedly maintained the Clarets’ top-flight status but was ultimately unable to battle the permanent tide alone.
Burnley might not return to the Premier League any time soon but Pope’s absence might be fleeting. While a reported £40m valuation seems steep, interest in the genuinely elite sweeper keeper is unlikely to be limited to Fulham and West Ham. The Clarets play in a way that affords any talented shot-stopper a platform to perform consistently and conspicuously; the England international has used it to suggest he deserves far better.
8) Aaron Ramsdale
After a mean start came the slight…
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