Andre Onana told to stop making mistakes by Manchester United hero

Former Manchester United defender Mikael Silvestre believes goalkeeper Andre Onana needs to improve his form to enable the rest of the team to make progress.

Onana, who started Cameroon's 1-0 defeat to Senegal on Monday, joined United from Inter Milan in July for a fee that could rise to £47.2million. He was earmarked by manager Erik ten Hag as the ideal replacement for David de Gea, who left the club following the end of last season.

Ten Hag had worked with the Cameroonian at Ajax and wanted to upgrade his goalkeeping options with a ball-playing specialist. However, Onana has been guilty of committing one too many errors so far, meaning the jury remains out on his suitability.

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In his defence, though, he has had anything but a settled defensive line in front of him, with injuries meaning Ten Hag has constantly had to chop and change his back-four since the start of the season. For example, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Raphael Varane, Lisandro Martinez and Luke Shaw, who made up the defence in the opening two games of the season, all missed the 2-1 win over Brentford almost a fortnight ago through injury.

Silvestre has sympathised with Onana as a result of the never-ending injury problems in defence, but has insisted that the goalkeeper, 27, needs to resolve his form in order to give the rest of his teammates a lift. The Reds have kept just three clean sheets so far this term.

"United got rid of David de Gea because he was making mistakes and now Andre Onana is doing that too," Silvestre told GGRecon.

"There's question marks surrounding the goalkeeping situation at