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UNITED went on a six-year £20m roller-coaster ride with 10 different goalkeepers in a monumental effort to replace the great Dane Peter Schmeichel. Now new keeper coach Eric Steele has taken on the challenge of attempting to avoid another similar saga as the Reds plan for the post-Edwin van der Sar era. Between Schmeichel's Old Trafford retirement in 1999 to Van der Sar's £2m arrival from Fulham in 2005, United's efforts to come up with a solution to filling the vacancy left by the world's best lurched from sensational to slapstick. Steele viewed the tough changeover process from afar as he built up a CV as a goalkeeper coach with Derby County, Aston Villa and City as well as being part of the FA's goalkeeping development team. Then, after leaving the Eastlands set-up in the wake of Mark Hughes' arrival and moving briefly to... [read full story]
