Manchester United signing labelled as 'explosive' has showed teammates how to silence critics

A year ago Andre Onana walked into the away dressing room in the Allianz Arena and told his teammates he would take on media duties. His error had cost Manchester United the game so he would front up for them.

It was a gesture that was appreciated by those in Munich. Onana had let Leroy Sane's shot slip under him to give Bayern a 1-0 lead in a game United had started well. They eventually lost 4-3, a scoreline that flattered them in a helter-skelter game.

But Onana knew it could have been different had it remained goalless for longer "We started very well and after my mistake we lost control of the game," he said.

"It's a difficult situation for me, I let the team down. It's because of me we didn't win this game. We have to move on, it's the life of the goalkeeper."

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The problem with such a noble gesture is it can become self-fulfilling. When the mistakes kept happening, it would have looked daft for Onana to keep fronting up. Doing it once is appreciated but to have impact it needs to be a rarity. At the start of his United career, it wasn't.

Gradually he began to settle. The goalkeeper Erik ten Hag had identified as the long-term replacement for David de Gea and a player lauded by Pep Guardiola before and after the Champions League final slowly began to find his feet.

“I arrived as the best goalkeeper in the world and ‘boom’ it went down. It was like ‘what happened?’," Onana said before the FA Cup final in May.

“But that is how difficult football is sometimes. It depends if you want to stay down there or stand up and fight. I know what I did to arrive