He's definitely on his way then.
De Gea Contract Situation
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What an absolute farce 
And the bedding in process, too. It really could cost us a lot of points.
Barcelona playing Pedro despite the fact that he's almost certainly joining us, but we deny De Gea is leaving and then leave him out for opening day. I worry about how we do our business sometimes.
And you kiss goodbye to a decent fee, which I'm okay with.
Was good against Barca though.
Has something happened in the past week then or what? Why play him in pre season at all if nothing has changed? Really annoyed with how we have handled this whole situation. I'd play Johnstone tomorrow seen as Romero came in late and shouldn't be considered ready. No doubt he will play though!
Because Madrid clearly still havent offered us a decent value for him yet?
One day before the start of the season and we haven't bought a centre half while left with Valdes and a keeper released by Sampdoria as our number 1
We've handled this poorly.
Pedro and De Gea aren't the same person, their psychology is different and their current states of mind probably are, too.
All the way through? I thought we'd done a good job until now.
The fee issue is one thing, this whole saga affecting the start of our campaign - and it could be up to 8 games before the new guy is settled in - is the bigger issue.
We're starting the season with no [quality] keeper, and a backline who don't know their arse from their elbow - assuming Blind is at LCB.
We could be rueing this months later. Very, very silly.
Embarrassing how this has unfolded.
We should have made the decision to sell him at the start of the window and give ourselves time to find a replacement. If we do not bring in a quality number 1 then it will haunt us for the entire season.
We should have made the decision to sell him at the start of the window and give ourselves time to find a replacement. If we do not bring in a quality number 1 then it will haunt us for the entire season.
No he hasn't you tool
Once again, if Madrid hasn't made an offer, there is nothing we can do.
We have left ourself in a situation where Sampdorias back up keeper they released will start our first game of the season in goals. Madrid will just wait till next summer and take De Gea on a free.
Well, she can go feck herself for not setting the record straight in any case.
If we lose DDG, I want both Ed and LVG's heads rolling down for creating the mess they got in. In Van Gaal's case, all this shit is a reflection of the Kraft situation at Bayern.
One day before the start of the season and we haven't bought a centre half while left with Valdes and a keeper released by Sampdoria as our number 1
Pathetic isn't it.
I don't even want to hear excuses if this comes back to bite us on the arse. This is piss poor planning by all involved.
Finally its over, he is gone. The club including Van Gaal have handled the situation like a bunch of idiots, now Madrid have De Gea and Ramos (that we insisted we would take and we now won't have) and we enter the new season with no proven, established goalkeeper. Instead we end up with Sampdorias 3rd choice keeper, a Valdes who has had a fight with Van Gaal and we will probably buy Cillessen who is average at best. feck sake
Shocking by both the club and LVG
Romero. . . Jesus Christ. . The guy is just awful
Romero. . . Jesus Christ. . The guy is just awful
For a few million less, we better off selling him. This farce has disrupted our season. It's down to LVG and Woodward.
Fergie and Gill would have got Perez to pay up in June.
She did but no one cared.
De Gea is currently one of the best players in his position in the world at the moment. He is being paid a hefty sum each week to play for Manchester United. Regardless of what is going on with Real Madrid, if he is fit he should be in the right frame of mind to play for us. We are the ones losing out because we are going to play an inferior player in his place. My point is that Barca don't care, at the moment Pedro is their player, so he he plays if Enrique wants him to play.
So we're not selling to Madrid until we get a good valuation (say £30 million) or get Ramos in return, but we don't think he's in the right frame of mind to start games! What the feck is the point of keeping him then?
LVG's decision to publicly announce it means Real can offer cheap money (which they have wanted to do all this time) or just leave him until January then get the pre-contract sorted. We've maintained a hard-stance all summer, to give that up on the eve of the season is really poor management. This saga should've been sorted out, it's an unnecessary distraction.
LVG's decision to publicly announce it means Real can offer cheap money (which they have wanted to do all this time) or just leave him until January then get the pre-contract sorted. We've maintained a hard-stance all summer, to give that up on the eve of the season is really poor management. This saga should've been sorted out, it's an unnecessary distraction.
A few millions, so you would have accepted 10m?
Are you serious?
Na, he signs the contract or he can stay on the bench. We have enough bodsies in midfield now to protect our defence. I don't blame anyone but De Gae himself, he played all this contract game poorly.
There's no point selling him if we can't get a good keeper in. Ride out the month until the transfer window closes then his focus will change.
The only person to blame is De Gea
We want £30m. They willing to pay £20m, if reports are true. £20m with a few add ons for a player in his last year is not bad business. Toni Kroos went for £20m in the same situation.
For their shared responsibility in this mess, yes.
In Bayern, they (Hoeness, Rummenigge, etc.) found the right words and the right approach to have that SOB named Franck Ribery, a Frenchman who doesn't have to give a shit about Germany, stay in Munich. Meanwhile, our higher-ups know just shit about how to convince key non-English players to stay.
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All this talk about Ramos.
Yet I bet he'd be playing Madrids first game and most likely captain too.
Yeah and not us by handling the situation like a bunch of 3 year olds. Once it was known that he didn't want to be here, which has been no secret for the last 6 months; it was up to the club to make a decision out of no more than 2 options. Either force him to stay or let him leave (whether we get Ramos or not) and purchase a decent keeper
The reporters don't know if Madrid made an actual offer.
They should have begged him to stay then?
I mean if guy wants to go he wants to go, how do you know they havent tried to convince him.
Blaming the club for DDG wanting to leave and not signing a contract on top of that is just.. wrong.
It doesn't matter what they offer if we don't get a new keeper in. £30 mill, £40 mill etc. still leaves us without a keeper. There's no point selling at this point, we don't need the cash.
It's not Madrid we have to concern ourselves with here. You tell the player there is such and such a time that his move away will be sanctioned by, if that passes, he will stay, if not, he goes. Then his management can go and beg Madrid. If they're good at their jobs, he gets his move, if not, he doesn't.
That kind of clarity would've hastened this whole process and we wouldn't be in this mess.
We made a stance to not sell him. Whether that was the right call I don't know, but the fact we aren't going to play him now makes it seem like the wrong one. Van Gaal seems to have wavered on the decision by not playing him now. Until the press conference though it seemed like we were going about it the right way.
De Gea shouldn't get stick for wanting to work somewhere else. It was clear for everyone on the outside he wanted out, so it was must have been even clearer on the inside. Hopefully it gets resolved very soon, one way or another.
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