Former Arsenal star told he needs 'stepping stone move' before Man Utd transfer (2025)

Teddy Sheringham has warned Manchester United that former Arsenal star Aaron Ramsdale is not yet ready to be the answer to Manchester United’s goalkeeping issues.

Ruben Amorim faces making a big decision about the future of Andre Onana this summer following a series of error strewn displays.

The Cameroon international was taken out of the firing line last weekend as United slumped to a heavy 4-1 defeat at Newcastle.

Altay Bayındır immediately lost his place in the team and Onana returned to the starting line-up for United’s epic comeback win over Lyon on Thursday night.

Onana’s long-term position is far from secure, despite earning an immediate reprieve, and United have been linked with a number of potential new goalkeepers.

Ramsdale is the latest name to be touted as a potential signing despite the England international enduring a difficult campaign with already relegated Southampton.

The 26-year-old joined the Saints in the summer following his departure from Arsenal and Sheringham feels he needs another move before he is ready for the No.1 position at Old Trafford.

‘Whenever you go to a relegated club or a struggling club, you’re going to come under pressure. You’re going to concede goals,’ Sheringham told Casino Hawks.

‘Yes, you’re going to make a lot of good saves as well because you’re having a lot of shots at you.

‘But when you keep conceding goals and you’re losing 3-0, 4-1, 5-0, the finger is always pointed at you.

‘I like Aaron Ramsdale as a goalkeeper, I like him as a personality, but for me now I think he needs another stepping stone in a mediocre Premier League club.

‘Manchester United need to go for an established one that can sustain all the pressure that’s going to be bestowed on them, like the big goalkeepers that have been there in the past. Someone like Edwin van der Sar or Peter Schmeichel.’

Sheringham, meanwhile, advised Onana, who has made several outspoken comments of late, to do his talking on the pitch.

He added: ‘Andre Onana looks like he’s a strong character and he was having a little pop back saying about his medals that he’s won previously.

‘So he’s trying to tell people that he’s the finished article and he’s the right man to be the goalkeeper for Manchester United, but people don’t want to hear about what you’ve done before.

‘It’s like when people say, I’ve got nothing to prove. You have as a footballer. Every game you step out there, especially in front of 75,000 fans, you’ve got something to prove.

‘Week in, week out, when I was playing for Millwall, when I was 17, 18, 19, there’s something to prove all the time in front of 3,000 fans. Let alone at United.’

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