29mil is solid money. Think we'll take it if they offer that much.
De Gea Contract Situation
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29mil is solid money. Think we'll take it if they offer that much.
But we'll end up with no replacement?
Let's just wait and see what the club have got lined up. Lloris would be my first choice but I'm sure that the club would have been prepared for a late bid from Madrid and would have contingency plans in place if De Gea was sold. Have no idea about Cilessen. At the end of the day, £30m is huge money for a goalkeeper in the final year of his contract.
That's all true but if we end up with no replacement that would be a bit silly. Romero hasn't put a foot wrong but I don't think he's a nr. 1 material.
According to some sources Cillesen to us is done and dusted and he's only waiting to sign the contract the second DDG leaves. Maybe just conjecture, but it would make sense.
Let's see how it pans out. I'm fairly sure would have a replacement lined up and it may well be Cilessen (not sure what to make of that).
Me too, heard he has short hands.
I think you've done very well if you get 29 million for a player with less than a year on his contract, especially if he wants to go.
Four weeks ago maybe, now after all that's been said, no chance.
29 for a player in the last year of his contract has to be a record
Indeed. People will say that we're giving to madrid after putting up a fight. We're not fighting we're doing business. And the sale was always a yes from us if and only if madrid met our valuation. And it seems they might have. Made hard work of it, the tools.
last couple of days of the transfer window.. there is a good chance the deal will be concluded in that time... so an article about it being done is a pretty safe bet ..
Maybe wait and see before rushing to judge us? It's quite likely we knew he was leaving all this time so we'd have planned for this.
I'm sure we planned it but I'm frightened if we didn't or we did but we won't be able to fulfill the plan.
if we get £29m for him , I will take that, better than keeping him against his wishes and getting jack shit for him next summer.
They've left this for the end of the transfer window, leaving us with little time to act (although I'm sure we have contingency plans in place).
Add 5m to the price, let the cnuts suffer.
Add 5m to the price, let the cnuts suffer.
29 mil...thats over 40 mil euros..i just cant see real offering that....especially seeing as they dont really that desperate for him ...but at least we will know conclusively soon enough
We should have lined up a replacement by now
What's better for us? Having DDG for another season, or having an extra £29m on our bank balance?
I'm not saying it's not a lot of money, of course it is, but it's too late to do anything with it.
If they'd coughed up with that offer in July then fine, we could have made some inroads with Lloris or whoever, but not now.
I'm not saying it's not a lot of money, of course it is, but it's too late to do anything with it.
If they'd coughed up with that offer in July then fine, we could have made some inroads with Lloris or whoever, but not now.
Yeah, I think van Gaal has liked what he has seen from Romero and will give him the chance. We'll take a call next summer or in Jan based on how it goes.
Good luck trying to get a club to part with their number 1 with 2 days to go. It's like Chelsea and stones in a way. Had the transfer request and 40mil come a month back, he'd be at Chelsea. Not now though. Even if we sell now, I can't see us getting a top keeper in unless we just lose our shit and bid 30mil or so on a cillisen which I'm sure we won't.
This, IMO (assuming that De Gea plays like last season).
29m is a lot of money, but we have already more money that we can spend. Our net spend is around 0, which means that we have around 150m to spend this summer, and even more next season (with UCL money coming, adidas deal and new EPL deal). Our revenue next season would be over 500m pounds (or very near it), and our wage bill will be below 40% of the revenue. There are other expenses, but likely there will be over 200m to spend just from the revenue of nextseason. Add 150m from this season and it means that we would have 300m to spend if we want.
Now, 30m is a large sum of money to lose, but the point is that very likely all those money will not go back to the club. If we spend those money to a) improve facilities; b) reduce tickets or c) reduce the debt: then fine, but otherwise I don't see the point.
It might be for an another discussion, but would be very interesting to see what we will do with all these money we have. I really hope that there are plans for a City-like facilities. An investment of 200m or so in academy could bring more benefits than signing any player.
yes.
The fact that it has dragged further into the window means he's worth more to us now.
If this is true then it's a solid enough sum for us to not lose face. To get 29m for a player who has been running down his contract on purpose and want out is quite good business.
So we fecked around all summer to squeeze Madrid for an extra 7 or 8 mill and now have no replacements
If this all happens we are mugs
If this all happens we are mugs
There are so many variables here that it is hard to say. Perhaps he would have been replaced with someone who would have done very well too, or without the insurance of world class goalkeeper our defence would have stepped up sooner than they did? Then there is the question: how many points was he worth last season that we wouldn't have otherwise won?
Yeah but the money men would rather have have the £29m regardless of timing. If he goes we'll have made a cracking profit this summer.
Didn't we already got a replacement?
I thought he was the lindegaard and/or valdes replacement
Romero has done well, certainly better than many of our resident gobshites predicted, but a number one for Utd he ain't
Maybe. He has done well so far, and is a quite good keeper (although he makes some Barthez like mistakes).
No idea if he was signed to be No.2 though. LVG clearly trusts him considering that there were reports that we were interested for him since LVG arrived. He also started only 2 days after we signed him, and having kept 4 clean sheets in 5 matches doesn't hurt.
Who knows, maybe he was the De Gea replacement from the very beginning but we didn't mention it in order to not lower De Gea's price? It is very likely, after all you don't sign Argentina's main keeper to be a No.2 without a chance of being main keeper. It also is possible that we looked at other keepers, but no-one better was available.
This. I'd rather keep ddg and then use the extra year to look for a replacement
Mail saying that he wont force a move if Madrid dont meet the asking price..becaause apparently he will get a 12mil pound signing fee at Madrid next season..
I wonder how he intends to force a move?
Shite article which references sources in Spain... Then Marca also says it's a done deal referencing sources in England 
I still think he's going nowhere
I still think he's going nowhere
That's a fair price imo but we're running out of time to find a proper replacement, our best chance is to involve navas in the deal.
He isnt forcing one..But the only way to force a move nowaday is a treansfer request..or the William Gallas route
We should not sell him so late unless we have someone lined up for sure. It will really leave us in a bad position if Romero is our first choice especially since we don't have an able backup. Lindegaard is not good enough and Johnstone is not experienced enough to deputy in case Romero has a bad injury.
Why do The Mirror keep calling him "DE DONUT"? Always in caps too. It wasn't funny the first time.
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