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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montpelier said:
He's Spanish & the way he's played this season has been sensational. Might have been a right mess without him.

Proper shame but good luck to the man
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This.

And I think the way we played this and also the last season always meant that our goalkeeper was going to be our best player.
 
SteveW said:
This is fecking painful. Spend 20 million on a young keeper. Develop him until he's the best in the world. Get forced into selling him to a rival club for around the same price you paid. Then watch them benefit from his skills for 15 years. The world is a horrible place at times.
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Unfortunately it's the way of the world, we do it to smaller clubs all the time, but the difference is we usually pay hansomly for it. I don't think it's the fact that Dave is leaving that most are so pissed off about, deep down I think it was going to happen but not for few more years.

The fact is though we either play hard ball and keep him for a year, piss off Mendes and De gea would probably have to be benched.

Or sell him now knowing Madrid is the only place he wants to go, basically meaning they have all the bargaining power. If he signed a new deal and then wanted to leave we could ask for a world record fee for a GK, or swap him for Bale or somebody of equivalent value.

We just have to face it and realize, buying young Spanish talent that hasn't already been tainted by Madrid/Barca will always be tempted back. Sad but true.

I think we need to go German for the next GK, as Neuer will have Bayern + Germany's position sewn up for years.
 
Kill 'em all said:
£25m? We will be lucky if we get £15m with 1 year left on his deal. We have to accept what they give us else he can leave for free with a pre contract signed next January and that will be much worse.
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Considering we're willing to pay over £20m for Gundogan (allegedly), over £15m for Clyne and have in the past paid £20m for Young all in the same situation I think we should tell them where to go for £15m. If they're not willing to bid higher than that, I would hope De Gea would take notice.
 
A lot of money saved on wages, he is not worth +200K/week, he is not Messi, but a GK with many weak points.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
He's a Real fan so what you've just done is pretty much the same as calling his mum a jizzbucket.
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Well history can't be changed I am afraid. I am sure that we would win more leagues if an evil version of SAF was Britain's dictator. Imagine how easy it would be to win if he used the British taxpayer's money to finance us, he pops in Shitty's dressing room just before the derby to remind them whose the one pulling the ropes and he makes sure that Hazard ended up at United instead at Chelsea despite the player had already signed with Chelsea in the first place.

Honestly I wouldn't be comfortable supporting such type of club but there again, we live in a free world (not thanks to the likes of Franco). Oh some clubs do attract powerful cnuts on their side, Franco, Blatter etc
 
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Wouldnt be surprised if this ends up being one of those players plush cash deals. We'll pay x million + DDg for Bale. Not that its my money or could care a less how much we spent/got for a player,if we did it this way we wouldnt be able to argue how much we spent on Bale and how much we receiced for DDg but nobody would ever know, which would cut a lot of the crap out.
 
It's funny to see people completely change their opinion of a players abilities because they might be leaving. Already seen a few brilliant ones in here, also saying he never wanted to play for us.

"1 good season"
"many weak points"

Brilliant.
 
kouroux said:
If it's really 40m then really it's a good deal.
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That would be a very good deal indeed.

I'm not fussed about him leaving to be honest. If we recruit sensibly a goalkeeper isn't as hard to replace as a talismanic forward.
 
No doubting De Gea's one of the best around and he did save our holes a fair few times this season but once LvG straightens out all the problems at the back and strengthens or tightens up that whole area we won't really need a keeper of his stature. I think we could even come down a few levels from where De Gea is currently at. So give De Gea what he wants, put whatever we get for him to good use and everything should work out fine.
 
amolbhatia100 said:
That would be a very good deal indeed.

I'm not fussed about him leaving to be honest. If we recruit sensibly a goalkeeper isn't as hard to replace as a talismanic forward.
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I'll be disappointed but I've come to terms with it. I'll never "hate" DDG because he's been a sensational goalkeeper for us. If signing another meant reducing his chances to go back to Spain and play for Real then I can understand it perfectly. All in all, if the club isn't prepared for these type of situations then the blame is all on them. DDG was never going to spend his prime years at Man Utd.
 
Can anyone fill me in on the latest, I've scrolled back a few pages but not come across what it is that's made everyone sure he's off. What did Lvg say? Or maybe a mod can threadmark it.
 
Good luck to him been fantastic for us. Like to see us bring in Cech and keep our eyes on someone like Leno for a couple of years to eventually replace Cech (who I think is still superior to Lloris). Coincidentally this is why buying someone like Bale or even Kane may not be a bad idea. If they become top players or in Bale's case get back to their best then we won't have to deal with them wanting to leave because of the weather etc.
 
people talking about us not extending his contract earlier but for all we know De Gea has a career plan....

Join United until 2015/2016 at the latest then move on......as someone who lived away from home and wanted to experience different things this is believable

the main reasons it would take for him to extend his stay would be an English wife/gf (nope), the money (I'm sure Madrid will pay him very well), the culture/weather (can't speak for a Spaniard but Madrid is lovely and its home) or the size/ambitions of the clubs (Madrid are certainly a better side than us and a comparable club)

This move has been in the offing for a long time....I wonder why we haven't acted earlier and made an agreement to sell him to Madrid this summer with a better contract for De Gea hand in hand so we get a bigger fee.

possibly naive of United but who know what goes on....sure we wouldn't sell Madrid a virus
 
I'd like to go 10-20 years without ever selling anyone else to Real Madrid after this.

At first, we were selling them players we or Ferguson were willing to let go of, like Beckham, Ruud and Heinze. This has changed with our selling of Ronaldo and De Gea, both at a time where they'll hit their primes, after we've put up with a few of their growing pains as players. It's a sucky position to be in. Who's next? Pereira? Januzaj?

I'd very much like for us to meet Real someday in the CL, and have James Wilson scoring the winner.
 
You also have to factor in the wages when talking about how we won't get true value for him because of his contract situation.

He's earning 50,000 pounds a week and has reportedly been offered 200,000 pounds a week. Let's say we'd done that two years ago and it's 150,000 pounds more every week for two years, amounting to more than 15 million pounds. So that equates to selling him for 20 million instead of 35.
 
I don't understand the solice people take from receiving a big transfer fee in this situation?

We're going to spend money where we need to this season anyway. The least we'll receive for De Gea is 15mil. The most is 40mil. Neither amount are going to make or break United.

The fact he is leaving for united for Madrid as one of the worlds best in his position, just as Ronaldo did before him is the real issue.

People don't agree with me but I see more value in letting him sit out his contract on our bench, depriving Real of his services for a year and giving him a season without match practice. Why sell a rival one of the worlds best keepers when he has a contract and we don't need the money?
 
justboy68 said:
Can anyone fill me in on the latest, I've scrolled back a few pages but not come across what it is that's made everyone sure he's off. What did Lvg say? Or maybe a mod can threadmark it.
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LVG said that we already know who will replace De Gea if he leaves.
 
diarm said:
I don't understand the solice people take from receiving a big transfer fee in this situation?

We're going to spend money where we need to this season anyway. The least we'll receive for De Gea is 15mil. The most is 40mil. Neither amount are going to make or break United.

The fact he is leaving for united for Madrid as one of the worlds best in his position, just as Ronaldo did before him is the real issue.

People don't agree with me but I see more value in letting him sit out his contract on our bench, depriving Real of his services for a year and giving him a season without match practice. Why sell a rival one of the worlds best keepers when he has a contract and we don't need the money?
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Because you see more value in comforting your ego than doing the smart thing, which is turn the page and understand that there is always a future.
Some posters think that we should keep him and play him, I don't agree but I understand because it makes sense, but benching him is just stupid.
 
Time to bite the bullet and accept that he's leaving us. On a personal level (gf, home, moving forward in his career for the NT) I can't blame him. What I can blame him for is the way he's handled this. Would have been more respectful towards the fans if he would have commented on the issue by now.

Irregardless. Even if he signs, it will only mean we'll get a higher fee. The same shit will happen every transfer window if he stays, maybe with Barca added to the mix if both their options won't work out.
 
I think the smart thing to do here would be to sell him, and swear off buying Spanish players in the future. :lol:
 
NinjaZombie said:
I think the smart thing to do here would be to sell him, and swear off buying Spanish players in the future. :lol:
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You are right, no Spanish players, no South Americans and only Germans who hate Bayern. We need to recreate a strong identity and choose players who are willing to be part of that identity.
 
I can see why he would want to go back to Spain and kind of expected this to happen one day I'm just disappointed with the way he's dealt with it all. We've developed him into being the best keeper in the world I think he could have signed a long term contract and hung around for another year or two before a big £ move. Running down your contract after the faith that has been shown by the fans and club is pretty cnutish. I don't believe in player loyalty to clubs but there is a better way of dealing with these things.
 
JPRouve said:
I would be happy with him, if his reflexes are still great which is highly possible, then he is like De Gea last season. And De Gea last season was very good.
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That's the thing. I have no idea whatsoever how good he is now. He was supposedly rehabilitating from his long term injury. It's always dodgy when players come back from such things. If we go with him, hopefully it isn't a disaster.
 
If he's off, I'd wish him nothing but the best. But I really do feel him and his people dealt with this situation in a somewhat cnutish manner.
 
If he leaves, fine. Not signing a contract so we get a decent fee is what fecks me off the most. That is fecking ridiculous. His agent is Mendes right? He basically has Madrid and United in his back pocket, why can't he tell De Gea to sign a new deal and he'll still go Madrid next season. What is De Gea's issue about a new deal just before he gets what he wants? Scared Madrid won't pay? In that case Mendes should guarantee it and if that is actually the case, that he's scared Madrid may not go for it cos he'll cost an extra 10 million or so, then De Gea can get fecked.
 
You're all giving up far too easily.
 
I still think we'll get a surprisingly good fee.
 
amolbhatia100 said:
That's the thing. I have no idea whatsoever how good he is now. He was supposedly rehabilitating from his long term injury. It's always dodgy when players come back from such things. If we go with him, hopefully it isn't a disaster.
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The good thing is that we have an excellent goalkeeper coach, who knows perfectly where Valdes is in term of level, if he thinks that he is good enough then he is probably good enough.
 
Now I believe that he is off :( What a shame. Don't get about the fee, it can be 60 millions and I still won't be happy - we bought Fellaini for half of that ffs. And we don't really need the money.
 
feck the idea of making him stay for a year just because the transfer fee doesn't tickle your fancy. Why have a player who doesn't want to be here?
 
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