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De Gea Contract Situation
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But we didn't wait till the last day of the window. That's essentially what the statement clarified. Its the buying clubs prerogative to initiate the contact, which United is saying Madrid initiated yesterday. Nothing much United can do about it.
I don't know what we have shown Madrid, as it seems that it was either a deliberate decision by Madrid not to complete transfer or just unfortunate set of circumstances happening beyond the control of parties involved where the transfer couldn't go through.
Voted yes at the start and stuck to my guns! 
Also read the last 70 pages of this thread and some of it was comedy gold! That gif from Olly had me in tears!
Apparently so!
Also read the last 70 pages of this thread and some of it was comedy gold! That gif from Olly had me in tears!
Apparently so!
As someone said already, United are the selling club. Madrid wanted him so it was them who waited until the last day. We all know he would like to play for a club from his home town, and that Madrid were interested in him but the bid came late(last day) and was then screwed up by Madrid, and it is my opinion that Perez made that decision.
Yup. Shame it closed around 1pm. Was on something like 43.6% yesterday I think so some switched back over.
My vote's been on staying for a couple of weeks now.
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I never changed my Yes vote (I had it in for months).
It was very clear that he was staying.
Voted yes at the start and stuck to my guns!
Also read the last 70 pages of this thread and some of it was comedy gold! That gif from Olly had me in tears!
Apparently so!
Did the MEN ever credit Olly for that GIF? They should do.
We did wait till the last day of window for the situation to sort itself out. We should have set a deadline to De Gea, by which if Madrid made a reasonable bid, then he goes, as it gives us ample time to buy a GK and integrate him into our squad, otherwise he stays.
We may not share any blame in what conspired on the last day, but we definitely are to blame for not sorting the situation earlier.
Madrid were never in an disadvantageous position in all this. They always had a decent enough keeper as their number one choice. It was us with only a year left on De Gea's contract, who were in a lose-lose situation.
What do we have now? We possibly have an unhappy player and will lose out on a potential transfer fee. Madrid will get the best goal keeper in the world for free next year, while we search for a new one.
@everyone else. Sorry guys, it's 1.30am and I need to go to bed. I think this post covers what some of you questioned me on. I'll try to reply to the rest when I get time again. Not running away, just very sleepy. Cheers.
Because the move was not really favoured by their fans and Perez is not exactly seen in the most favourable light there right now after certain events with Ramos and Cassillas. Also Navas has become a fan favourite. So perez got cold feet.
It was always my preference not to sell my car to my next door neighbour.
Upon my next door neighbour first offering to buy my car, I immediately decided to sell it to him.
I did everything necessary to try and sell my car to my next door neighbour, even though if I didn't want to sell my car, I didn't have to. I tried really really hard to sell my car to him.
My neighbour messed up the paperwork so he couldn't buy my car.
I'm delighted that I still have my car. I am not 8 years old or drunk.
I'm exactly the same as I've always been. All that's changed is we've got a maniac as a manager and people don't like being confronted by that, but it is not going to go away...even if I do.
Just read the statement "The club feels compelled to provide some clarification with the following facts."
"The club feels compelled to provide some clarification with the following facts." If our statement is accurate, I wonder how this affects (if at all) how De Gea feels about Madrid. It looks like they've royally fecked this up and it's obviously been a huge emotional strain for him.
On the flip side United would appear to have done right by him.
Wouldn't be the biggest shock if he now signed a new agreement with us.
On the flip side United would appear to have done right by him.
Wouldn't be the biggest shock if he now signed a new agreement with us.
That's the worst analogy I've ever read. Did your car want to leave you?
Real Madrid had to be the proactive party in the transfer, United didn't have any incentive to facilitate the deal. If they wanted De Gea, they should've paid the appropriate fee, and tied the strings a while ago instead of grandstanding, and briefing Marca every single day. As for United, Van Gaal felt Romero could do a job, and that's fine by me, everyone knew he'd have his ups and downs but if the manager wants to play him, then that's the way it shall be, the upper management can't second guess everything he does, that will only undermine his authority as the de facto head of football operations. Van Gaal's reasons for excluding De Gea are partly understandable too, even though I personally don't agree with this approach, he felt that De Gea couldn't compartmentalize the white noise and perform to the best of his abilities, hence his omission from the starting XI, and even the bench.
The statement wasn't irrelevant or childish from United's end. Madrid started the mudslinging competition for some odd reason, and United had to present their viewpoint, it's not often (if ever?) that you see clubs of the magnitude of Madrid resorting to petty bickering to absolve themselves of any blame for a failed transfer. That's not how clubs should operate. United needed to repay the courtesy in kind, instead of whimpering in a corner. The posturing wasn't designed by United, the club clearly stated that Madrid would have to pay a fee approaching Buffon's when he joined Juventus, the onus was on Real to come through. It's all fairly simple to be honest, and far too big a deal is being made out of it.
Yeah that doesn't work at all. Cars generally don't express a conscious desire to leave their owner. KITT might have but that's neither here nor there since you know, he's a TV character.
Also, you'd have very little time to get a replacement car, and the only one being offered had never driven on it's intended terrain before and has crazy lambo style doors that flap open all the time. Analogies.
If the last two words are true I'm a bit worried about you.
Analogous to Edurne then?
Did you mistakenly think the club was called Moanchester United when you decided to become a fan? I'm sure you'd fit right in at that club.
Isnt this worse for United? Instead of having a very good keeper in Navas you now have a world class keeper sitting on the bench or playing within himself with his head not in it to run out his contract when he'll go for free? Or lose him in January.
Edurne would be the shite Pioneer head unit you only listen to whilst stuck on the M6. Worthless.
Didn't we offer to make him the highest paid keeper in the world already and he turned it down? I think I remember hearing that at one point while we were still hoping we could get him to renew but, I'm might be having a senior moment.
Anyway, if he didn't want our money before, I don't see why he'd want it now. We had months and months to try and coax him into signing an extension, one which could have included a release clause to move him out as soon as this summer, should our valuation be met, and that never brought us anywhere close to an agreement with him. If we didn't have a good enough argument to convince him before, with a little nudge in the form of gobs of money, I don't see where anything that has just transpired makes that any less the case. In fact, it seems to me like it would have worked to the contrary.
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This has probably been the strangest transfer saga I've ever experienced.I always felt that De Gea actually moving clubs was secondary to the PR battle between United and Real. All the drama in the last day seems to confirm this.
Wow..
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Complete agree.
No, no we are not. United didn't want to sell, so why should they feel the need to sort it earlier? It's obvious LvG and the club were prepared to let him see out his contract (giving more time to find a replacement) unless Madrid came in with the right cash offer or one that included Navas, and they didn't, until the last day.
Does it count if I changed about 16 times?
No, I think De Gea will play and play well.
Never wavered. Whether he'll wear the shirt again is another matter!
Was that an "I quit post"?
I don't even know that that means. I mean it's hilarious if he is saying what I think he is saying "not going to to away (DRAMATIC ELLIPSIS) EVEN IF I DO!"
I don't even know that that means. I mean it's hilarious if he is saying what I think he is saying "not going to to away (DRAMATIC ELLIPSIS) EVEN IF I DO!"
Again, how very strange.
Hell yea!
Navas didn't want to come, swap one keeper for another who would rather be in Spain? Weve now got a longer period to think of a long term replacement
am I right in thinking DDG will still almost certainly join Madrid in January or next summer though? For free.
The only thing better about this turn, would be if DDG's GF throws a fit, they break up and DDG is too heart broken to return to Madrid.
Or, the car analogy, we sell it after taking a giant dump in the front passenger seat and play innocent when Madrid questions a giant dookie festering away in the Spanish sun!
Or, the car analogy, we sell it after taking a giant dump in the front passenger seat and play innocent when Madrid questions a giant dookie festering away in the Spanish sun!
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