For those moaning about lack of entertainment, we sure provide enough of that off-field.
As usual, there are the negative nancy’s claiming that it was Utd’s fault for fecking things up, or those that claim we are keeping an unhappy keeper, or those complaining that we lost out on Navas and have only Romero for the season. Looks like some people just hate the club or the people running it.
Personally I think Madrid have a good chance of getting this deal through. It a technical glitch is the excuse then how difficult is it for another technical glitch to be the remedy? Madrid certainly have enough clout.
But if this ultimately doesn’t go through, it is a great outcome for us. For those blaming Utd, consider it was Madrid playing games as well. They may have thought to leave this till the last minute in order to make us cave in and sell cheaper.
There’s a chance DDG may, in frustration, start thinking that Madrid weren’t that serious, especially if we can leak some news to the press about how Madrid could have wrapped this up early but did not value DDG enough. Madrid now also potentially have a keeper who knows he is not valued.
For those who think that DDG will be affected and cannot play well for the entire year, that’s rubbish. We all know footballers are as fickle as the weather. Cue in several weeks DDG’s corner coming out to say how he feels Utd are also a big club, etc etc. and after a few good performances, fans will forgive and forget. Don’t forget DDG has the Euros to look forward to; his agent and common sense will tell him that he needs to perform or kiss his national team chances goodbye. I doubt that he will be that happy to idle on the bench.
As for those who think that we will lose the 20m when DDG leaves on a free, so what? DDG could be the difference between a title challenge or a CL spot. That’s worth more than 20m. And a year is a long time where many things can change. Let’s not forget Madrid may have a transfer ban so maybe they can’t sign DDG. Maybe we can get DDG to extend. Maybe he gets a new girlfriend.