Always a bit optimistic to hope he would settle down with one girl but I rather hoped we'd get a few years while he worked his way through the cast of Coronation St. Still, it leaves more fresh meet for Dave.
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- Clean sheets
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- Goals
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- Assists
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- Yellow cards
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Why would we replace De Gea with a goalkeeper on an 18 month contract, god some of you need to get over yourselves.
Never rated him that highly but if anything he was in the world class form towards the end of his Barca career.
Probably against the grain here. But I'm not going to lose much sleep if we lose him.
He's obviously a very good goalkeeper, one of the best no doubt, but the only reason he's so important is because the defence in front of him is not performing as it should be. If he went we probably wouldn't be able to replace him with someone as good, but a replacement with a very good goalkeeper and improvements to the defence will cover it up.
If he left and we replaced him with someone like Handanovic, Navas, Lloris etc... and didn't concede something like 10 shots a game we'd be absolutely fine.
He's obviously a very good goalkeeper, one of the best no doubt, but the only reason he's so important is because the defence in front of him is not performing as it should be. If he went we probably wouldn't be able to replace him with someone as good, but a replacement with a very good goalkeeper and improvements to the defence will cover it up.
If he left and we replaced him with someone like Handanovic, Navas, Lloris etc... and didn't concede something like 10 shots a game we'd be absolutely fine.
People who genuinely think he's not staying need their heads to be checked.
A reminder of some David de Gea quotes from earlier in the season-
"Yes, my contract runs out in 2016. But they didn't sign him for that"
"Victor had a difficult injury, he had a bad time and the boss knows him well and has given him the opportunity to recover there.
"Yes, Victor is training over in Manchester - he's still not 100 percent after his injury. When he is fully fit he will start to train with us. He's still not training in goal with us. From time to time he comes out with the goalkeeping coach, but very little still.
"Van Gaal knows him well because he gave Victor his debut at Barca and has a special affection for him and, whenever possible, we have to help where we can.
"Football is cruel at times, it's difficult. When things go well you're very good and when they go badly... well, it's awful."
"It's not the moment to think of my future. It's the moment to think about Manchester as we are not in a good moment. I'm happy there and feel very loved by the fans. I'm focused on doing well."
"Casillas will be in the national team and at Madrid as long as he wants.
"I'm in England for several years now, and it's true that at the start it was difficult - but now I'm very happy and I feel very loved by the people in Manchester and everything is going well."
"Yes, my contract runs out in 2016. But they didn't sign him for that"
"Victor had a difficult injury, he had a bad time and the boss knows him well and has given him the opportunity to recover there.
"Yes, Victor is training over in Manchester - he's still not 100 percent after his injury. When he is fully fit he will start to train with us. He's still not training in goal with us. From time to time he comes out with the goalkeeping coach, but very little still.
"Van Gaal knows him well because he gave Victor his debut at Barca and has a special affection for him and, whenever possible, we have to help where we can.
"Football is cruel at times, it's difficult. When things go well you're very good and when they go badly... well, it's awful."
"It's not the moment to think of my future. It's the moment to think about Manchester as we are not in a good moment. I'm happy there and feel very loved by the fans. I'm focused on doing well."
"Casillas will be in the national team and at Madrid as long as he wants.
"I'm in England for several years now, and it's true that at the start it was difficult - but now I'm very happy and I feel very loved by the people in Manchester and everything is going well."
Same goes for people who are so sure he's staying. There is no right or wrong; all we can do in this thread is speculate.
Completely baffled at the reaction to Valdes signing. He has clearly been brought in to be a back-up goalkeeper, and a very good one at that, but this place is in mourning because people for some reason think Valdes joining confirms that De Gea is off.
It's because of the rumour started by Red Issue that Valdes was assured he was De Gea's replacement. Probably bollox but they have been known to get big rumours correct in the past.
I'm with you.
I just can't bring myself to care that much about a goalkeeper.
Provided the 'keeper we have isn't costing points, it's the least important position to me.
It's a nice bonus to have a special 'keeper, but that's all I see it as.
If de Gea goes, he goes. We'll survive.
Yes, we have proved that it's easy to find a good goalkeeper, let's just look at the time between Schmeichel and VDS, that was a joy to watch.
Hence why I said "Provided the 'keeper we have isn't costing points", which those guys in between Schmeichel and van der Sar were.
There were options at the time, and there will be options if de Gea leaves.
It depends which way you look at it. In reality if we had an average keeper this season, who made all the routine saves but didn't pull off the wordlies de Gea has, we'd have dropped a fair number of points. Without a doubt. You could make a good argument that we'd be down near Liverpool at the minute.
The thing is that if this hypothetical average keeper hadn't made those world class saves, you wouldn't criticise that keeper. If we were talking about a striker up the other scoring worldies instead, then it's much easier to credit points to them and to more noticeably miss them when they're gone. If we do lose de Gea I guarentee Red Cafe will be full of 'de Gea would have saved that' posts.
I genuinely think he will leave at the end of the season
This because we signed Victor Valdes for 18 months, with most of his wage paid by Monaco...
Valdes or no Valdes, De Gea will be a Real Madrid player this time next year.
What good will answering that do? I could say "i heard it from blah blah blah" and you will just think I'm some regular, crazy, blagging, attention-seeking internet loser.
Call it a hunch, and quote me in the new season (after the transfer window in the Summer) if I was wrong.
But I'm confident De Gea will sign for Real Madrid in the Summer, unfortunately. (And I think Valdes will be our #1 next season.)
Going nowhere.
I've been pretty on board with Van Gaal's decisions so far but the handling of De Gea thus far has been a bit shit. We signed a goalie to challenge him for the number 1 spot when there was absolutely no reason in doing so. LVG has almost refused to praise him despite him being arguably the league's best player and definitely ours, and he has a year and a half left on his contract and nothing has been offered to him. What the feck are we doing here?
This isn't football manager, contracts aren't just whipped out and signed in 5 minutes, its a lengthy process. Also why sign a "replacement" for 18 months when De Gea's also runs out in 18 months, can you not see the faulty logic in that? We aren't in a position to sell, we hold all the cards with De Gea. He has shown no signs of wanting to leave and looks very much at home here, if Moyes was still around maybe he could have. We have an excellent coach, looking like we WILL be back in the champions league next season, and could very well mount a title challenge next year. Casillas doesn't look like he wants to leave, and they already have a top class keeper to replace him in Navas, all they need is a good back up if Casillas does leave.
I'd expect LVG's been giving DDG plenty of praise behind closed doors though, and De Gea will surely know that Valdes is unlikely to get in ahead of him. There's nothing wrong with a bit of small competition: De Gea didn't flip his lid when he was dropped for Lindegaard in his more troubled days when he had just signed, and presuming he continues to perform for us, he won't have to worry about Valdes taking his place either. Nothing wrong with us having an excellent backup option.
And you expect Real Madrid to be sensible about signing players?
Who said contracts take 5 minutes? His contract could have (should have) been under review for 6 months now. If we wanted to sign him again and he wanted to we'd have drawn something agreeable up by now. I don't even play football manager so no point in using that as a stick to beat me with. Have you not considered the potential for Valdes remaining beyond 18 months? Do you think Valdes signed knowing that he'd not play much at all?
You'd expect that but doesn't mean its the case. He's been pretty odd about him in the press.
Bale de gea + cash swap will happen in summer
Ehhhh.....What the hell?!
Krul??!?!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/manchester-united-agree-victor-valdes-4937769
Krul??!?!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/manchester-united-agree-victor-valdes-4937769
If we don't get Bale in return then we are nothing but a Real Madrid feeder club, with Woody's comments in the summer I can see him telling them too gtfo away from De Gea unless Bale is included in any sort of deal.
I love De Gea and he has probably single handily kept us out of mid table this season, however as someone said earlier, with a better defence we won't need him to make such saves and a keeper like Cech (who is world class as well) would be more than efficient.
I'd be happy to do some exchange of players with Madrid, if they don't like that then I hope we tell them to get fecked, I hate that club so bad and their idiotic president. So yeah, either £50million cash or Cash+De Gea for Bale.
I love De Gea and he has probably single handily kept us out of mid table this season, however as someone said earlier, with a better defence we won't need him to make such saves and a keeper like Cech (who is world class as well) would be more than efficient.
I'd be happy to do some exchange of players with Madrid, if they don't like that then I hope we tell them to get fecked, I hate that club so bad and their idiotic president. So yeah, either £50million cash or Cash+De Gea for Bale.
He wasn't even LVG's first choice at the World Cup. A nothing story pulled out of the journalist's ass.
If in doubt, make up a Dutch transfer rumour.
Looks like revenue at the Mirror is down this month and they need to start making up clickbait stories to get some more moneys.
Oh and if De Gea is actually trying to force this through by stalling on his contract then he can feck himself too, he would be a massive traitor in my eyes and moving to the rivals of his boyhood club can't be good, although these things are not unheard of.
I actually.... quite like Krul.
The thing I don't get is people making out we'll get big money for him. Hypothetically with a year left on his deal and a desire to move to Madrid, we'd be doing really well to get our money back.
De Gea will of course pen a new contract, no matter what, if he really wants to go to Real Madrid and they want him too, they will pay up and he will get his transfer.
He is too good a guy to just leave in the summer for 20m or smth, he loves Man Utd .. That im personally assured.
Great. Thanks.
Outstanding