Chris Woods: Can We Keep Him?

Why would Woods follow Moyes to for instance Norwich or Newcastle if he gets the chance to stay at United?
 
GK coach are a separate entity and a weird position, they only work with the coaches (I assume)

It would be much better for all GK to go on a meeting and decide his fate, at the end of the day they are the one who works with him. But off course it'll be wrong to hand them this decision making, since it won't be fair.

But ... if done properly, I think the GK would want to succeed, and if the GK coach is doing a good job, they would want him to stay, even if he's not the nicest man on earth.
 
De Gea has improve massively this season. Especially his long ball and how he handles corner and crosses. I'll give credit on Chris Woods. Let's keep him. He deserves to be one of our coach staff. Great reflex is from talent. But fix his weakness and improve him significantly are also from great coaching.

Sacking him would only be a waste of money.
 
Why wouldn´t we want him to stay?? Just ask De Gea and if he´s happy then keep him!
 
SirFergie said:
To be honest if van Gaal comes in, I can't see him making THAT many changes to the backroom staff other than to replace Steve Round with maybe someone who knows the Club.
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Every professional manager always bring their own coaching staff. Not because of the quality but because of they know each other and been working together for so long.

But surely GK coach is different. We should stick with Chris Woods. He has many experience both as coach and player. Even England international caps as a player.

He should just get out from United States and focus in here if the next manager wants him.
 
I would leave the decision purely down to the goalkeepers to decide, but as far as i recall - De Gea mentioned that he was happy with Woods. Although Steele should take a huge amount of credit for turning him in a world-class GK right now.
 
I would leave it to the new manager, if we get LvG who will work with DDG to PASS the ball to his teammates (which of course also suggests that his teammates, especially the defenders will be coached to make themselves available to receive the ball and not run away from it) instead of hoofing it to noone, then LvG might have his own goal keeping coach or decide that Woods would also be fine for this approach.
 
charlenefan said:
What exactly is this so called improvement we've seen from De Gea this season that can be attributed to Woods?

De Gea is at the same level he was last season imo (note I'm a big De Gea advocate)
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you must be blind not to notice how much more dominant he is comming for crosses?
 
SiRed said:
you must be blind not to notice how much more dominant he is comming for crosses?
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I couldn't believe that it was really David when I saw him collect this cross one handed against West Brom away from home - takes a lot of self confidence to do that. Hard to believe that not too long ago people said he would never stop flapping at crosses.

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Obviously DDG's improvement is down to his own determination and professionalism, but imo Woods has helped him become more commanding in his area. If I remember rightly Woods was a very commanding goalie who was especially good on coming for crosses, so I would imagine he has helped quite a bit in this aspect of DDG's game.

If the keepers are happy with Woods then there's no point in getting rid, from what I understand he is highly regarded as a coach by those in the game.

If he was to follow Moyes when he gets a new job it wouldn't be a bad thing. Man Utd WILL find another top class coach and it wouldn't hurt DDG to learn something new from someone else all the while keeping the ideas from his previous coaches.
 
I think the fact he wasn't binned with Feck Off and Lumpsden speaks volumes. DDG rates him.
 
I think it says more about how specialist a position Goalkeeping coach is as there is pretty much nobody else at the club who can replace him at this point so it makes more sense to keep him. If the new manager wants to bring in his own man then Woods will leave, he may even automatically be let go at the end of the season nobody knows.
 
Sunny Jim said:
i have this impression (not based on anything else than me arse telling me this) that DDG has improved a lot when commanding his box but he is not a quick on the line as he used to be.

anyone else feels the same?
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Woods has been working with De Gea to improve his handling on crosses and balls into the box, evidently it's paid off.

I would like to see a new goalkeeping coach brought in when our new manager comes in though. Just so De Gea might learn something else. I think the reason he's improved is down to himself more than anything else.
 
If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

The high quality goalkeeping has been one of the highlights of this year, keep things as they are.
 
Woods would never have gotten the job if it wasn't for Moyes. Steele didn't deserve to get the sack and same case applies to woods. But that's not how the market works. The manager chooses who stays and who goes and usually new managers bring their own team. There are rumours about Van Gaal bringing his own GK coach so doubt We'll see more of Woods. He did a good job though. Best one from Moyes' team.
 
Said it before but I'll reiterate; really hope Woods stays. De Gea has improved this year and it seems to be working. If he is happy with Woods then he should stay on.
 
I really don't know why people are thinking that we will try to keep him if Van Gaal comes. He has been working with the same goalkeeper coach for more than 20 years and it is a no brainer that he will bring him.

Woods has done a very good job and deserves to not get sacked, but the same can be said for Steele last year. It will be a bit shit to see someone losing his job who doesn't deserve that, but c'est la vie.

Also, I don't think that it is a bad thing to change the coach. Van Gaal's keepers are known to get involved on the game very much and hwile De Gea is good at passing, he still isn't that known to be part of the game. On Van Gaal's system the team passes the ball to the keeper on average more than 20 times for game and in that aspect he is almost like a third center back. Van Gaal loves to start actions from the back, so a keeper needs to perfect that part of the game. Who better to teach that than the guy who coached keepers like Van Der Sar, Reina or Valdez (amongst others) who were all known to be very good on that aspect of the game?
 
Good call in my opinion. Van Gaal should have his own staff around him and to be honest I don't want any member so Moyes' staff around as it would just be a reminder of Moyes' tenure at the club. Harsh I know.
 
Feed Me said:
A little surprising. Woods is widely credited as being a positive influence on De Gea's development.
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That may be so, but it would be unfair to not allow bring in his own people. Just as Moyes displaced Steele with Woods.
 
Feed Me said:
A little surprising. Woods is widely credited as being a positive influence on De Gea's development.
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LvG will want to work on his ball playing skills. He'll need a specialist keeper for that, who will match the philosophy of the style van Gaal will seek to implement. He'll probably need to be a man who wants to work cohesively with van Gaal too. The keeper is an important position for Louis. Whilst Woods is a good coach, he just doesn't fit the bill unfortunately. He has done well in improving De Gea's command of the box and making him more of an assertive, vocal player, but that looks as far as he'll go.
 
Don't think De Gea is too happy about it. First Steele now Woods. He had a good partnership with both of them i think so it must be difficult for him to see his second coach in two years go. Hopefully he will like the new coach as well. Would love to see VDS in the coaching setup beside an experienced GK coach.
 
DWelbz19 said:
LvG will want to work on his ball playing skills. He'll need a specialist keeper for that, who will match the philosophy of the style van Gaal will seek to implement. Whilst Woods is a good coach, he just doesn't fit the bill unfortunately. He has done well in improving De Gea's command of the box and making him more of an assertive, vocal player, but that looks as far as he'll go.
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Aye, you have a point there. It's been noticeable that there's been less emphasis on DDG playing from the back this season.
 
It can't be good for DDG to keep changing the GK coach, although I do understand it in this case. LVG is said to want his GK to play as a sweeper so he will need to improve in that regard.
 
If anything I can see this being a positive for De Gea in a weird way. When Steele was hear he concentrated on De Gea's shot stopping ability and general footwork with the ball. Woods has clearly taught him to be more commanding and authorities in the box which he has shown this year. Hopefully the new coach will add to that and teach De Gea something new. It could make David De Gea's overall gameplay a lot better.
 
It could actually be good for De Gea learning from different coaches. If he's a bright lad he'll take the best from all of them.
 
Woods work in making him more vocal will go hand in hand with his abilities and trust on the ball. He'll feel more at ease communicating with his back four, and he'll feel less nervous (whilst I don't think he has been much anymore this season) at having a moan at the likes of Evans, Smalling, Rafael and Shaw(?) over the old guard in Vidic, Ferdinand and Evra.
 
If he's going then wish him all the best.

One of few coaching staff who actually improved our players. So fair play to him.
 
It's a shame for him because he has apparently been doing great work with De Gea but it could be a blessing in disguise.

De Gea responded well to Steele and then to Woods, it's possible a new coach could bring fresh ideas again and help him continue his upwards trajectory.
 
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