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De Gea Contract Situation
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Just in from work,Can someone summarize whats the latest from today?
A stream of rumours came in about him leaving suddenly.
It doesn't look good but we knew this was coming. I'm disappointed that big Dave is probably leaving but no point keeping a man that doesn't want to be at United. We will hopefully strengthen our defense this summer and won't be as reliant on our new keeper. Sour taste in here tonight. De Gea is from Madrid, his family are from there. His girlfriend lives there, what does everyone expect? He hasn't said anything negative or disrespectful towards the club, his silence is more a respect to the fans more than anything else. He's not saying shit like 'only god knows' and declaring his love for Real to us. For all the bitter fans in here as well, De Gea owes us nothing. He's played a massive part of possible champions league football for the club next season. Get a fecking grip haters, he's one of if not the best goalkeeper to play for the cub. He seems a humble guy as well, best of luck to Dave if you decide to go
His immense talent was always there for all to see, even in his supposedly dodgy first season, so I doubt him now being one of the best in the world is purely down to us 'nurturing' him.
It doesn't look good but we knew this was coming. I'm disappointed that big Dave is probably leaving but no point keeping a man that doesn't want to be at United. We will hopefully strengthen our defense this summer and won't be as reliant on our new keeper. Sour taste in here tonight. De Gea is from Madrid, his family are from there. His girlfriend lives there, what does everyone expect? He hasn't said anything negative or disrespectful towards the club, his silence is more a respect to the fans more than anything else. He's not saying shit like 'only god knows' and declaring his love for Real to us. For all the bitter fans in here as well, De Gea owes us nothing. He's played a massive part of possible champions league football for the club next season. Get a fecking grip haters, he's one of if not the best goalkeeper to play for the cub. He seems a humble guy as well, best of luck to Dave if you decide to go
I disagree. We took a chance on the lad, we stuck by him right from the start despite the mistakes. We gave him a platform to go on to be one of the best in the world and at the first chance he gets, he fecks off to Madrid.
for the most part i'm generally in favour of just moving the player on if he doesn't want to be here and as brilliant as he is someone like cech would be a perfectly adequate replacement, potentially even better short term given his level of experience and our relatively young CBs
however, on this occasion I'd actually rather we kept him to his contract. unless we can work some kind of bale+varane deal or 80m+ is on the table I just don't see what we gain from giving in to Real again. If they're not prepared to stump up big time i'd rather lose him for free in 2 years, their want is not our concern and if he wants to sulk then its his career he's harming. with SAF gone and this current trend of flexing our financial muscle we have to also show we can play hardball when people come after our players. obviously we have no idea what is actually going on behind the scenes but everything coming out of the club about this just seems a bit soft to me, i want to hear the generic 'he's got a contract and he's going nowhere' line
however, on this occasion I'd actually rather we kept him to his contract. unless we can work some kind of bale+varane deal or 80m+ is on the table I just don't see what we gain from giving in to Real again. If they're not prepared to stump up big time i'd rather lose him for free in 2 years, their want is not our concern and if he wants to sulk then its his career he's harming. with SAF gone and this current trend of flexing our financial muscle we have to also show we can play hardball when people come after our players. obviously we have no idea what is actually going on behind the scenes but everything coming out of the club about this just seems a bit soft to me, i want to hear the generic 'he's got a contract and he's going nowhere' line
Of course not, but I doubt certain aspects of his game, like his aerial control of the ball, would've developed half as much if he'd have gone to Real straight from Atletico. We took that chance on him and helped him develop.
He had a difficult first season but he's definitely made up for it since. I understand you are annoyed, so am I but he's not the first big player to go there. The reason your probably really annoyed is that we are gonna get feck all for him, that's the truth. If we were getting £60 for De Gea there would be a different outlook in here. It's the clubs fault it ran down to his last year.
"Took a chance" makes it sound like he was being turned down by clubs left, right, and centre, and that his quality/potential was in huge doubt.
We'd have dropped him like hot rocks, had he joined and then turned out truly crap.
We'd have dropped him like hot rocks, had he joined and then turned out truly crap.
I personally don't think that a keeper, no matter how good he is will get the attention that an outfield player like Ronaldo gets. I'm not doubting that if things do somehow go tits up for De Gea at Madrid there will be cries for him to come back 'home', but if we sort out the defence and bring in someone like Cech or Lloris, I honestly don't see us missing him as much to the extent that we would Ronaldo, Carrick or Scholes leaving in their pomp.
My guess would be you can win the league / CL with a good keeper, he doesn't have to be the best of his era to do so, having that status of the best keeper is a luxury since it's not really needed.
Cos he is a w@anker. Least he could have done was sign a new contract after the club standing by him during his difficult first season. Could have got a nice fee next summer. At least Ronaldo had the decency to do that.
Much as the Varane, Bale rumours are doubtless BS,I really think some sort of player swap is the only we'll come out of this any chance of 'winning', we just don't need the crappy fee they are wanting to force on us, but we do need players and lots of them!
One of Carvajal, or Navas + £20 million, or a straight swap for Benzema, Modric, Varane, or Isco and we might just win on the transfer.
Sadly it aint gong to happen though, and time is not on our side as we need to get thing sorted asap, so I see him gone inside 2 weeks for £20-£25 million.
One of Carvajal, or Navas + £20 million, or a straight swap for Benzema, Modric, Varane, or Isco and we might just win on the transfer.
Sadly it aint gong to happen though, and time is not on our side as we need to get thing sorted asap, so I see him gone inside 2 weeks for £20-£25 million.
People keep saying "we stood by him" etc.
Genuine question: Considering he was our best keeper, was still showing moments of class, and was only going to improve (even if only slightly,) what else were the club going to do?
Genuine question: Considering he was our best keeper, was still showing moments of class, and was only going to improve (even if only slightly,) what else were the club going to do?
i hope someone turds in his gloves before every game and he always forgets to check before putting them on.
Yeah those comments are annoying to be honest. He would have been top class regardless of where he was.
Your probably right . IMO the situation is dragging on because we are trying to sort some sort of player swap deal with our mother club !
Some of ye need to get a grip ,Im disappointed if he does go but he wants to go and play at home, so be it.
Players come and go,he'll be replaced and we move on.
Players come and go,he'll be replaced and we move on.
I also think that would mean United would think twice about ever buying a young player from Spain, Germany, Portugal or Italy again as they are very prone to going away before they hit their prime. People who say that United overspend on the likes of Shaw, Jones and Smalling should be reminded of players like Pogba, De Gea and Fabregas who leave before their prime. British talent should always come first for Manchester United imo.
Easy to say when everyone remembers how United replaced Schmeichel or how Arsenal replaced Seaman.
Mother club! They're just so dam annoying I wish we'd just turn round and tell them we aren't selling and risk losing him on free, not going to happen though as we don't need an unhappy player plus I like DDG , and I guess he just wants to go home, but it just makes you sick as its them he's going to, and for peanuts.
Madrid will soon be dethroned from their richest club status and they'll hate that, also a time will come where any manager with any credibility will not go near the place, Ancelotti for Benetiz it's mad where do they turn when that goes tits up.....which it will.
There are plenty of good GK's out there at the moment we could sign.
This.
What about Madrid losing players or getting slammed in the face for a change? If people say that we have to move on, I think they (Real Madrid) are more in need of learning how it feels when they lose (current or wanted) players and then be forced to move on.
Except for Cech, the rest are either unproven or just useless pansies (*cough* Lloris *cough*).
And anyone of them will be a step down, most of them without PL experience. There aren't actually that many. I'd be worried about any keeper signed as a replacement except for Cech.
That's the problem, not bashing them I'm just saying that is the Achilles heel with Manchester
Not only has he developed into a world class keeper in these 4 years, but he's turned into a sexy bastard also with better hairstyle and a better beard.
LvG will make him regret it.
Valdes will save De Gea's penalty in the CL final for us to win it.
Valdes will save De Gea's penalty in the CL final for us to win it.
I presume all those wailing will be happy to turn down a new job they want out of loyalty to their current employers - like hell they would. I'll be sorry to see him go - but that's life.
I really hope we get a player back, the money is almost nothing for us, f they're not letting us Bale than go for Isco or Varane or Carvajal, they're loaded with good players.. I wouldn't even care letting de Gea go for free next year just now to tell them to feck off, it is always madrid isn't it?
Unless they offer Varane or Bale in exchange, or a shit load of money (£40-50m+) we shouldn't be selling.
There's no good reason to sell him for less. We don't need a token cash sum like £25m, I mean that probably wouldn't even cover the cost of signing Cech or Lloris, not that we need to sell to afford them.
There's no good reason to sell him for less. We don't need a token cash sum like £25m, I mean that probably wouldn't even cover the cost of signing Cech or Lloris, not that we need to sell to afford them.
Letting him go for zero next summer covers even less of the cost of his replacement.
Money isn't a concern.
Of course not just up to them to agree to sell a player to us the player in question had to want to move right?
Just pointing out a problem with the posters logic of 25mil not covering the cost of a replacement. Zero covers less.
It doesn't look good but we knew this was coming. I'm disappointed that big Dave is probably leaving but no point keeping a man that doesn't want to be at United. We will hopefully strengthen our defense this summer and won't be as reliant on our new keeper. Sour taste in here tonight. De Gea is from Madrid, his family are from there. His girlfriend lives there, what does everyone expect? He hasn't said anything negative or disrespectful towards the club, his silence is more a respect to the fans more than anything else. He's not saying shit like 'only god knows' and declaring his love for Real to us. For all the bitter fans in here as well, De Gea owes us nothing. He's played a massive part of possible champions league football for the club next season. Get a fecking grip haters, he's one of if not the best goalkeeper to play for the cub. He seems a humble guy as well, best of luck to Dave if you decide to go
I'd be completely fine with him wanting to move, if he hadn't fecked us over and signed a new contract in last year so we could at least get money out of him leaving. As things stand right now it looks like we are lucky to get 20m+£ for him. Also him being an Atletico player makes this whole real thing even weirder to me. I guess it's all about wanting to go back home to Madrid.
£25million is a good fee for a goalkeeper with 1 year left on his deal, I think it would still make him the 2nd most expensive keeper ever.
Not really sure what point hanging on to him for one year just to let him go on a free does anyways. RMcan afford a keeper for a year to cover so end if the day what do we really prove?
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