De Gea Contract Situation

Do you think David De Gea will sign a new contract at Man Utd this season?

  • Yes

  • No

  • Yes, but he'll still leave by the end of the season

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So much for seeking a world record fee for a GK :lol: We were not going to get anywhere near that tbf especially on deadline day but the whole handling of the saga has been a joke.
 
Jed I. Knight said:
It's more about the fact that instead of just selling him the moment we realized he would be going, we've left it to the last minute to find a possible replacement. We don't look any better for trying to stand firm only to cave at the last minute, and we've wasted an entire transfer window and a preseason that could have been to identify a suitable replacement, and bed him into the team.

It's quite unbelievable just how incompetent we look.
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Word is LVG has always liked Navas, so maybe in his head he always thought whatever De Gea deal will include Navas?
 
How much were we holding out for? Are we getting what we asked for or are Madrid ripping us off as usual?
 
Jed I. Knight said:
It's more about the fact that instead of just selling him the moment we realized he would be going, we've left it to the last minute to find a possible replacement. We don't look any better for trying to stand firm only to cave at the last minute, and we've wasted an entire transfer window and a preseason that could have been to identify a suitable replacement, and bed him into the team.

It's quite unbelievable just how incompetent we look.
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too true. We've f*cked about for 3 months and now we're left without any sort of decent goalkeeper. Woodward needs his backside booted from here to kingdom come.
 
Guy said:
Apparently Marca have said the two deals are separate.

De Gea is agreed already, and negotiations for Keylor Navas begin now.
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Wonderful, so if Navas turns us down, we're left with Romero.
 
So we wanted 30m+, Madrid initially offered half of that, and now they allegedly increased it to over 20m+. And we are the ones who caved? :wenger:
 
Sticking DDG in the stands and playing Romero all month has been utterly pointless. Well fecking done Ed and Louis.
 
If we're buckling at our asking price now then why didn't we do this a couple of months ago and got a decent replacement in? We've likely known for at least 6 months this was going to happen. Should've made a decision one way or the other and stuck to it.
 
Ayush_reddevil said:
Well if the idea was to sell him then surely the club should have bought a replacement, LVG kept saying that he would see after 2nd. Frankly now we are left with an average keeper and about 8 hrs to get a new one
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Cillessen is probably done, and just dependent on De Gea.

if we'd sold De Gea earlier, we'd have been bullied and have to have accepted a woeful price.

the delaying has made Real fret they'll miss out for a year
 
Guy said:
If I recall, there were reports of us wanting £30-35m.

The reports of what Real was willing to pay are very close to what we've actually gotten.
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SO that's fine. I do not want DDG to leave. Make him play the final season and ask him too sod off to them. But honestly, if we are getting Navas, we can get Romero off and we might be good again. Not that big a loss.

Can't really blame LVG is DDG wants to go and LVG manages to get Navas in the deal. But if we continue with Romero then we are dead.
 
If he goes and we're sticking with Romero then it's stupid imo. If we get him to stay, giving us a season to pinpoint his replacement then I think it's a decent move. I've no doubt with the euro's coming up that he'll be fine to play when the window closes.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
That word again.

You'd swear stuff like this has never happened before. It happens all the fecking time.
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I just can't see what we wanted to achieve with our handling of this saga. We didn't get the money we wanted, Real still gets his toy for a decent fee and only a bit more than their first offer, We didn't prove a point at all after we stayed strong all summer and we have no time anymore to replace him. Now Real can also use us in their second plan to offload Navas, because they know we are desperate and he is the best we can get now. If we wanted to get rid of him anyway we could have sold him for 25 million (who cares about the 5 million anyway) much earlier with a lot of time to get a proper replacement in. Of course we also didn't get any Real player in return, which was never going to happen anyway. We lose on all fronts and Real can end this window with a happy face.
 
To be fair, IF that fee is true after all of this time then that is fecking pathetic from our side - there's no getting around it. Also given that there's been no talk of a transfer request, how much of that fee will be diverted to DDG and Mendes?

If we are trying to get Navas and he doesn't want to come here then I'd prefer us not to go for him at all - we've been burned like that before; just last season in fact.

Any guesses how much more Cillessen would cost than the rumoured fee for DDG? How much out of pocket will we end-up being as well as ending-up with a weaker goalkeeper if we went for him?

It's not great really, is it?
 
mu4c_20le said:
So we wanted 30m+, Madrid initially offered half of that, and now they allegedly increased it to over 20m+. And we are the ones who caved? :wenger:
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We've caved on our asking price. How many other clubs are selling their best player on the cheap on the last day of the window? Most are overpaying to get what they want this late on.
 
Ixion said:
Sticking DDG in the stands and playing Romero all month has been utterly pointless. Well fecking done Ed and Louis.
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How? If De Gea was judged to be too distracted to play, surely it was the correct decision. How does this change anything?
 
Ash_G said:
If he goes and we're sticking with Romero then it's stupid imo. If we get him to stay, giving us a season to pinpoint his replacement then I think it's a decent move. I've no doubt with the euro's coming up that he'll be fine to play when the window closes.
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he's fine to play now - just like stones is. It's LVG being a stubborn arse. Already cost us 3 points.
 
Ainu said:
How? If De Gea was judged to be too distracted to play, surely it was the correct decision. How does this change anything?
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I think he means stringing out letting him go over a few months rather than specifically not playing De Gea in the opening few weeks.

For instance, if we signed a 'keeper earlier we could've had a pre-season with him and been able to scout more options.
 
Antisocial said:
To be fair, IF that fee is true after all of this time then that is fecking pathetic from our side - there's no getting around it. Also given that there's been no talk of a transfer request, how much of that fee will be diverted to DDG and Mendes?

If we are trying to get Navas and he doesn't want to come here then I'd prefer us not to go for him at all - we've been burned like that before; just last season in fact.

Any guesses how much more Cillessen would cost than the rumoured fee for DDG? How much out of pocket will we end-up being as well as ending-up with a weaker goalkeeper if we went for him?

It's not great really, is it?
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this is the mindboggling part. lets sign another player who doesn't want to be here
 
We don't have much power in this situation. De Gea has behaved like a sly snake.
 
People need to get real and less parochial about this saga. A sale is the only rational decision by United, all things considered. DDG has clearly been unsettled, is not contributing to the team, and will be free to sign a contract with anyone in five months time. Seriously, given the efforts the club has exerted to get him to commit his future here and his steadfast reluctance to do so, I am only surprised that there hasn't been more of a backlash against DDG.

Fair play to DDG, he has forced our hands and gotten his transfer. At least, United are getting something out of it
 
Guy said:
I think he means stringing out letting him go over a few months rather than specifically not playing De Gea in the opening few weeks.

For instance, if we signed a 'keeper earlier we could've had a pre-season with him and been able to scout more options.
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Not if Van Gaal's plan was to either keep hold of De Gea or get Navas once an agreement could be reached. Not saying that was necessarily the plan, but it's a possibility.
 
RedStarUnited said:
Erm Madrid didnt want to pay us the 22-25m that they are paying now?
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That's of course entirely hypothetical, and I have no doubt in my mind that we could have reached a deal earlier in the window at a similar fee, if we hadn't insisted on the ridiculous posturing of refusing to go through with a deal that, at first didn't include Ramos, and then when that ship sailed, matched a valuation far off what Madrid were willing to and eventually ended up paying.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
That word again.

You'd swear stuff like this has never happened before. It happens all the fecking time.
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Yes it does but not to the real big clubs. You won't see it happening to Real or Barca or Bayern, where they take a stance and then give in at the last minute without their demands being met. Heck, this is not something I have noticed with either Chelsea or City either.

Point is we have taken a stand. So late into the window, and now we decide to sell him and that too for not much more than what we bought him for. It may not be embarrassing but it surely looks like we are in Madrid's shadow and they will bend us over a barrel as and when they please.
 
Hope he's awful for them and they win sweet feck all. Also hope the Atletico fans boo him to no end.

Yeah I'm bitter :mad:
 
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