Once again, he hasn't done anything wrong whatsoever by not signing a new contract. What's currently going on is down to the reactions of people to that, for their own purposes - something he's not responsible for.
De Gea Contract Situation
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It's a right fecking mess..
That's wishful thinking though, so much delusion in this thread...
Okay I only just read the press conference from yesterday. So if de Gea said he doesn't want to be part of this team anymore and that he is too distracted he might have been just honest about things which in this case was probably the best thing to do. Naturally the best outcome would be to find a deal with RM but they seem to go the Bayern route and say "if we don't get him this season we can live with getting him next season for free."
Who really cares whose fault it is at this point, it's the club that will bear the brunt. Let's fecking resolve the situations as it isn't helping anyone.
If he is adamant on leaving and Real are ready to pay good money to acquire him, then let him go and sign another keeper.
If he is not adamnat, then let him play and leave for free next season. Or give him more money and a release clause.
These daily snippets about him wanting to play or not are getting annoying now. We have 5 games before the window shuts and I shudder at the thought of Romero starting all of those with Blind protecting him.
If he is adamant on leaving and Real are ready to pay good money to acquire him, then let him go and sign another keeper.
If he is not adamnat, then let him play and leave for free next season. Or give him more money and a release clause.
These daily snippets about him wanting to play or not are getting annoying now. We have 5 games before the window shuts and I shudder at the thought of Romero starting all of those with Blind protecting him.
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Im not saying he has done anything wrong, he played his cards, now the club is playing its cards.
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once it hits september 1st not playing becomes more detrimental to de gea than united. We've openly gone on record saying he's not for sale unless his value is matched or we get a player in return.
We have to keep by those words I know t may be cutting your nose to spit your face but this is a rare occasion i think the club so stay firm.
Exactly, Amir.
PS: LvG should take a lesson from De Gea and keep a dignified silence. Keep these matters in-house.
Easier said than done to dismiss 20 Million which would go a long way acquiring another goalkeeper.
I see some starting to spin this whole thing as how its LvG fault now,how he is the main problem,he is the reason why DDG wants to leave 
I don't believe a single word of this shite that he doesn't want to play.
This is the whole problem. Real are intent on being cheap because, in all honesty, they don't really want him that desperately.
Publicly ask for a transfer would have been a good thing, the problem here is that, he played with the club pretending to sign a contract when his only intention was to sign for Madrid, now United are in a complicated situation.
Let a player leave on a free or selling him for less money than needed to replace him?
There's been a policy shift at United over contract negotiations over the last few years. The club have been taking risks running down contracts to save on salaries. It's proved a risky policy with the likes of Pogba and now De Gea.
Might be wrong but LVG said that he doesn't want to play for the club, not that he doesn't want to play the next game.
Not really a fan of the way LvG is handling these situations. Don't like the circus atmosphere, keep silent, and stop everyone looking a bit foolish.
Then we should tell him that he isn't leaving and ask him to buckle up. He is a big boy, I am sure he can handle staying in Machester for another year.
All this "we'll not play him till the window shuts' nonsense needs to stop. That to me sounds like leaving the door open for his departure till the last minute of the window. Which isn't helping anyone.
I never thought of it that way. We all know he wants to play for Real. I doubt he'd be unprofessional in any way though.
I would not sell him. We cannot give in. Plus we don't have half as good of a replacement.
Yep, you said it!
You really think, if Real do well this season in the league and the CL, with whoever they use, they will drop them next season for a guy who has barely touched a ball in anger for a year?
Madrid have good goalkeeping options. Although De Gea would be a good purchase it's not critical they buy him at this point. If I was in charge of transfers at Madrid I'd pretty much have the same policy.
The situation is complicated and not easy to deal with. De Gea has not signed a new contract even though it was offered to him a while ago. The club wants to put their foot down and not sell one of the best goalkeepers in the world for a low fee despite the fact that he is on his last year which is ridiculous if you think about it. We wouldn't want to pay a world record fee for a gk in a similar situation no matter who it is. So it's either we accept what Madrid are offering or lose him for free next season and risk him not playing well. It's hard to see where things will go from here but I don't see how any side is to blame it's business at the end of the day.
I don't blame him for not wanting to play. If he feels he isn't at his best and will be more likely to make a mistake, it's the sensible thing to step aside. If he had lost us the game because of a mistake, it wouldn't be very fun for him or us.
Hasn't he said he wants to play?
Name a top class player at a major club left on a bench due to contract wrangles for season?
Think Pogba was a different situation and that one was a screw-up by SAF (he's allowed a few)
DdG has run his contract down. They've been trying to get him to sign for a while … his team had already probably had talks with Madrid and they thought they could land him on the cheap (one way or another) as long as he didn't extend.
Who do you want to believe?
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/13/david-de-gea-louis-van-gaal-manchester-united
Based on this, apparently not.
If Adam Crafton is correct, De Gea said that he would play, not that he wants to play. Obviously that's all semantic, but it doesn't go against LVG claims that the problem is that De Gea has other things than the team in his mind, that he isn't focused enough.
Not sure they can be left out for a season can they? Isn't there some rule that they can buy themselves out of the last transfer window if they haven't been offered a percentage of the games available?
However … I think you're just about to see exactly the scenario you state if he stays. Not sure Real value him as highly as he thinks they do either.
Still not sure any of this will do him, us or Real any good though the longer this farce continues … it'll only get messier!
De Gea and his team are perfectly in their right to get the best deal for himself and client. That's business, and human nature. In De Gea's case he's going back to his home city, his family and a club comparable to United. This is not just about money. I'm pretty confident United will have offered a better financial package.
PS: Professional sportsmen are unlike us fans who generally have no emotional attachments to the club.
DDG could easily be one of the very best goalies in the world for the next 10-12 years or so, Madrid aren't that stupid to give up on him, given that they can sign him on free! Why let him go to, say, Barcelona? Their current keepers are no alternative do DDG in the long run.
Excellent post.
Be a fecking strange thing to lie about. What could they possibly gain from fabricating it?
Try better excuses to defend De Gea. Nobody is talking here about the "legal aspects". The club is also within their legal rights to let him rot on the bench and not sell him, and Van Gaal is also within his legal right to say what he wants about De Gea.
The one who started the whole fiasco and acted unprofessionally was De Gea though, without any doubt.
It won't! Sell at what Real are offering and move on to another target. If I was a betting guy I'd wager this is going to be the end game. The PR game being played out at present is I'm bigger, and holier between the clubs, LvG, and De Gea.
To me, the bottom line is this:
De Gea has every right to let his contract run down and go for a free next year (as is his right under the Bosman ruling). Regardless of whose fault you believe it is for this situation, though, he should be professional enough to be able to play to the very best of his abilities until the time that he is sold. The worst thing for me is not that he's going but that he's not playing. Pedro is under the same type of situation at Barcelona but he plays when called upon.
De Gea has every right to let his contract run down and go for a free next year (as is his right under the Bosman ruling). Regardless of whose fault you believe it is for this situation, though, he should be professional enough to be able to play to the very best of his abilities until the time that he is sold. The worst thing for me is not that he's going but that he's not playing. Pedro is under the same type of situation at Barcelona but he plays when called upon.
Of course it is, and it's in our rights to request a fee we think is suitable and to let him sit in the stands if we see fit.
He didn't acted unprofessionally, if the reports are right he acted immorally by not advising the club that he wanted to leave last summer, he took all the power out of United hands and gave it to Madrid.
De Gea has said he can play the Aston Villa game and is ready for selection. He said this only 2, 3 days ago. Why not play him? He has been professional throughout and not said anything bad towards the club. As for people saying he should sign a new contract so we can get a bumper fee, what's his incentive. I remember Suarez said had a clause in his contract which he thought would allow him to leave for Arsenal but he wasn't allowed, Liverpool sold him to Barcelona more so because of his incident at the world cup and the amount of games he would of missed. Modric signed a new contract with Spurs so they could get more money from Chelsea but they didn't allow him to move, Modric claimed they had an agreement to let him go if he signed a new contract but the club didn't allow him and he had to wait another year to move to Real Madrid. Look at Sterling who I felt was almost getting bullied into signing a new contract.
I think Ronaldo was lucky because Ferguson gave him his blessing, most clubs wouldn't do that.
Clubs love to talk about loyalty but when it suits them they'll dash players without a second thought.
People saying we should make De Gea rot on the bench are very stupid, if a player doesn't play a certain percentage of games they can terminate their contract. Something I learned when the Tevez scandal was happening.
I think Ronaldo was lucky because Ferguson gave him his blessing, most clubs wouldn't do that.
Clubs love to talk about loyalty but when it suits them they'll dash players without a second thought.
People saying we should make De Gea rot on the bench are very stupid, if a player doesn't play a certain percentage of games they can terminate their contract. Something I learned when the Tevez scandal was happening.
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