Gary Neville and Roy Keane share identical Manchester United concern for Erik ten Hag
Andre Onana has quickly discovered what being Manchester United's number one is all about.
The 27-year-old was a main signing for Erik ten Hag - his former Ajax manager - this summer and his questionable early-season displays have already put him under the microscope. There were huge gloves for him to fill in what Gary Neville describes as the most heavily scrutinised position in the English game.
Peter Schmeichel, Edwin van der Sar and the recently-departed David De Gea have been constant pillars between the posts for United during the Premier League era. Even the great Sir Alex Ferguson got it wrong between those three modern-day legends and their latest £47million successor - Onana - already finds himself at a crossroads.
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Signed to help revolutionise United's playing style, the returning Cameroon international made high-profile errors against Bayern Munich and Galatasaray. He was also at fault for Brentford's opener before the international break, but some late heroics from Scott McTominay spared him further blushes.
Speaking about Onana on the Stick to Football podcast, Neville said: "My worry is who is that player helping Andre Onana through this tricky period as they're all struggling and look like they've got heavy legs. So it does concern me how the goalkeeper is going to come out of this tough period.
"We have lived through this period post Peter Schmeichel and before Edwin van der Sar, where we had Mark Bosnich then Fabien Barthez, then Roy Carroll, Tim Howard, Ricardo and Massimo Taibi. [There] are six goalkeepers we had in a short period of time, and it was unsettling.
"They were good lads,
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