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Can I get a tin foil hat too?
Agreed. That headline is misleading and he can't possibly have signed the contract like they're reporting.Aye, that's what I don't get. Makes no sense to offer him a new contract and for him to sign it and then for the club to not sign it and back out weeks later. If he put pen to paper then it was a done deal.
I'd say it was verbally agreed, then they've decided based on performances etc and you'd have to think there was input from ETH that it's just better to save money and feck him off and bring in a new keeper.
This kind of flip flopping definitely doesn't imply common sense, whether you want DDG gone or not. It screams a lack of forward planning and a certain disregard for its employees.Shows we are running with abit more common sense. What foolish club gives DDG more than £120k a week.
Time for us to stop being stupid.
This kind of flip flopping definitely doesn't imply common sense, whether you want DDG gone or not. It screams a lack of forward planning and a certain disregard for its employees.
Yep. Even if we luck out in the end, it feels like we're making these decisions on a whim. So much for the theory of working with ddg to create the story of attempting and failing negotiations. We should have decided long before the cup final.This kind of flip flopping definitely doesn't imply common sense, whether you want DDG gone or not. It screams a lack of forward planning and a certain disregard for its employees.
Inter can probably add another €30m to the Onana price now. It would be hilarious if we failed to bring in a goalkeeper now and had to revert to Henderson.
Agreed. That headline is misleading and he can't possibly have signed the contract like they're reporting.
And as far as I'm concerned this is good news and my complaints since 2016 will now come to an end. I suppose that applies to you as well. The new keeper will obviously make mistakes (who doesn’t) but we will now have the opportunity to build a proactive attacking team at a time when the EPL is dominated by teams who implement positional play in a vertical axis starting with their GKs.
I remember reading about this, wasn't it a case where ddg had his demands met, but mendez was holding it up with asking for more clauses etc, ddg found out and thus sacked him and signed the contract the next day?De Gea knows how it feels now for cutting Mendez out of his 375k contract that was agreed.
None of this is news though. We've known that's his level. We've known he crumbles under pressure and tends to finish seasons very poorly.Don't blame them, his form towards the end of the season was abysmal. Probably decided after the shambles in Sevilla.
Time this club stopped reward mediocrity.
*theirWhat? Why would they raise the price did they think we was signing there €50m keeper to sit on the bench?
Go read a book and wise up.
None of this is news though. We've known that's his level. We've known he crumbles under pressure and tends to finish seasons very poorly.
Why was the contract on the table in the first place?
I can't think of any single one. But certainly if they going to spend that much on a GK it's not going to be on DDG.
Those wages were ridiculous 4 years ago and are ridiculous today. I don't think De Gea is even looking at 200K per week at this point. I'm guessing he's being offered around 150K which is way more that he'd get anywhere else.
Let's pretend we don't sign him, where do you imagine he'll end up playing? Can you imagine him on any of the top 6? Or the top clubs in Spain, Germany or Italy? I think he'll had to settle for mid table and then 100K start looking damn good as no medium team will pay more than that for a GK.
Whole thing is a shit show. We need to move on players better than this. So much indecisiveness, and it just all feels amateur hour reading about this, what happened with Rio in the past, etc
It might be something as simple as Eth wanted him as number 1, we offered him number 1 wages (drastic reduction, but probably still best paid in the league), then Eth had a change of mind (thus backup at best) and the revised offer.
I say simple, but that scenario makes Eth look bad if it required Sevilla, west ham games etc for him to change his mind.
Completely agree. I was sick and tired of the situation as well and couldn't see how we were going to progress until we brought in a head coach with a defined way of playing the game. And then when that coach was brought to the club, I said on here that De Gea was in big trouble now. It took a season, but ten Hag realised pretty quickly at the back end of the season.Oh it's something I've wanted for a very long time too, yes to playing out bewteen the lines, but honestly it's mostly because I'm sick of him shouting away at ball dropping 2 yards from him. It's a sad end, but bigger and better players have left the club under bigger clouds.
Everybody is replaceable.
I think ten Hag always wanted a new number 1. It's just a case of the football department and the money men being on a different page.I can well believe this. Part of me thinks that Ten Hag thought he might be able to get away with De Gea for another year and then the last two months have turned that on its head. Foolish from the outset? Perhaps, but better late than never.
Tells a story to any future player on how we treat our legends
I think ten Hag always wanted a new number 1. It's just a case of the football department and the money men being on a different page.
Pretty difficult to tell a player we no longer want you nicely though. About time we got tough, we aren't a retirement home, even though we housed Phil Jones.His ending with the club deserved to be handled with more respect. We need a new goalkeeper obviously but this has been another terrible handling by the club hierarchy.
Ten Hag probably feels as if he shouldn't have to compromise on certain positions. In his mind, he should be allowed to sign a top striker, midfielder and a keeper. I imagine this is quite different from the reality. He must be sick to death of the takeover shenanigans.Long term, I agree. I’m sure he’d rather be spending money elsewhere, though, with a view to making that change further down the line. The goalkeeper spot is just such a problem that it can’t - or at least shouldn’t - be ignored.
For me, goalkeeper is number one priority at this point. I do agree that the suits will just look at De Gea think: yeah, fine.
It's high time the club started being ruthless when it comes to getting rid of players. No issue with this whatsoever. Overall it seems like they thought they could persist with him for a bit longer then as the season went on ETH realized that persisting with DDG is far more unsustainable than he thought and pulled the plug, which again I agree with.
The man had absolutely no issue with leaving the club to go to Real Madrid and would not have been here if not for the fax machine antics. I am sure there was a lot of hard balling from their end to make him the highest paid keeper in the world. Just as he looks out for his best interests, so too should the club.
Inter can probably add another €30m to the Onana price now. It would be hilarious if we failed to bring in a goalkeeper now and had to revert to Henderson.
