“David’s the best goalkeeper in the world, Dean is a very good challenger and then Sergio [Romero]’s a decent challenger as well.

“We want a squad full of quality and with competition and if you want to survive at the top you need to bounce off competitions from right, left and centre.

“He went through a difficult patch last season, definitely, but David’s been very, very good this season.

“I can’t really remember any errors I’d go to now, apart from the Watford one. I trust David 100 per cent in the goal.”