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De Gea Contract Situation
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if we had bought when were at the top this would have never happened.
Great teams always buy from a position of power.
When we sold Ronaldo we bought Valencia. Something like that should never happen at a big club.
Totally agree(@the hea post was very silly). It's a very similar situation to Van Persie(A player wanting to move to a bigger and better club, with the idea's of winning, although should point De Gea is leaving to join a club that will be managed by Rafa Benitez)
Fair enough, at least you're honest about it.
We're football supporters. We are allowed to be bitter and irrational. The game itself is irrational and of no real value if we strip away the emotion we put into it.
Football supporters who get emotionally invested in their team are a requirement for the game to be what it is, and players like De Gea to have the job he has and earn the money he does. So all this "no bitterness plx" is all rather silly to me.
If I want a lesson in practical business rationale I'll start following the stock market, not football.
It's like watching the same asshole steal my girlfriends again and again.
And a club who doesn't really win.
Jesus wept, is it too much to ask that people stop calling him a cnut for a perfectly reasonable decision we don't even know for sure he's made yet?
It's pathetic.
It's pathetic.
De Gea probably doesn't consider Benitez a joke in the way the Caf does and players who want to go to Real Madrid probably don't give a feck who the coach is, especially as they surely must be aware that he is mostly irrelevant and will probably be sacked after the first season anyway.
I don't get why Real Madrid have so much pull, I find their brazenness and arrogance quite off-putting, and the constant political turmoil in and around the club must also be exhausting sometimes. But it's a fact, they're the number one for the majority of players.
Someone even lambasted him for being silent on the matter, saying it shows he's cold and aloof. Imagine if he played the will-he, won't-he game in the press...
It truly wouldn't be summer if Glaston went without making some profound statement about how there was no way X player was going to be sold by Spurs, only for them to then be sold.
The constant change in managers, very little loyalty towards players from both board and fans etc., but for some reason a lot of players still see it as the ultimate goal. No one understands it, it just works. They're the Kardashians of football.
This. But, they did sell us a World XI player last summer!
This is true. He'll get a different experience at Real.
Sloppy seconds, amiright? I'm just going to think of it like we just snowballed them.
Cant really blame him for going back home. So annoying...Ronaldo and De Gea.
No, but he could have had the decency of letting us have a good fee for him by signing the bloody contract. Now Real have us by the balls and we will lose him for peanuts. I would fecking not sell him and if his heart is not in it, let him rot on the bench for a year than us getting shafted like this. But perhaps, that is just me.
It's like that guy who is a total arsehole, and everybody knows he treats every bird he's with like shit, but they still all fancy him.
Why, has he signed? I've not been following this saga at all lately.
You'll be alright with or without DDG.
People seem to be forgetting the key thing here. His girlfriend is Edurne and she lives in Madrid.
I swear none of you lot must watch Eurovision, pansies.
I swear none of you lot must watch Eurovision, pansies.
True. Can't they go and pester City's stunners for a bit?
You probably think i'm picking on you.
Di Maria made it clear he'd have stayed if Madrid wanted him to. He was basically forced out.
I'd agree with that.
You watched Eurovision?
No need to wait, can agree and anounce transfers any time. Sooner the better for me, don't want this overshadowing the summer.
Lads, it's Glaston.
You didn't?
Not quite. There's actually been very little in the way of concrete development today, a few media outlets saying he's said goodbye etc. Picking up speed though.
No, Sterling, I didn't.
With the social media today it's so easy for things to pick up speed even if they are false.
the stage was cool, it was almost circular, like .. a zone, and scary, dangerous almost ... a zone ... of danger ...
True, but some of the journos sending it round are more believable than your average clickbait. Still, might well be nonsense.
It's because of the legendary players who played for them, every player wants to be part of that club history.
It's relatively easier void to fill when the player in question is a goalkeeper than an attacking superstar. Once the contract situation drags to its last year, it's always difficult to do much.
Meh, I'd rather play for Ajax.
If De Gea moves it won't be because of an affinity for Real Madrid, that's for sure. It will be because Edurne and Mendes talked him into it. The meddling cnuts.
Sky will give 6/1 on him staying if you fancy a flutter, as per their transfer ticker
Prestige, history etc have much more leverage than some might think. It's how Liverpool were able to attract players a good level above them for so long. Even after seasons of being dire.
OK that one I laughed at.
It's not the only thing you haven't followed this season I think.
He's probably right though. We're too big and too rich a club to be in the doldrums for long anyway and DDG is not the only good goalkeeper in the world.
I can picture many points lost at the beginning of the season because the new keeper (whoever that might be) will need time to settle in.
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