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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justboy68 said:
If you want a player you're sure you can keep hold of for their entire career then they have to either be home grown like Giggs and Scholes or players not good enough to attract serious interest in the first place.
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Not true. Players like Schmeichel, Van der Sar, Irwin, Bruce, Pallister, Robson, Keane, Vidic, Evra, Rio, Carrick, Solskjaer, Cole, Yorke and more, all dedicated the peaks of their careers to United. All signed without any thoughts in the back of their minds of moving on to a bigger club. None were homegrown. Any who moved on, moved because it suited the club.

Of the current crop, I'd be stunned if Juan Mata, Blind, Smalling or Ander Herrera are planning to force a move to Madrid or Barca in a couple of years.
 
I've been offline for a few days, whats happened? Is it official that he's off?
 
diarm said:
Not true. Players like Schmeichel, Van der Sar, Irwin, Bruce, Pallister, Robson, Keane, Vidic, Evra, Rio, Carrick, Solskjaer, Cole, Yorke and more, all dedicated the peaks of their careers to United. All signed without any thoughts in the back of their minds of moving on to a bigger club. None were homegrown. Any who moved on, moved because it suited the club.

Of the current crop, I'd be stunned if Juan Mata, Blind, Smalling or Ander Herrera are planning to force a move to Madrid or Barca in a couple of years.
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Because none of them are seriously good nor attractive enough for these clubs.
 
Sam said:
I've been offline for a few days, whats happened? Is it official that he's off?
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Marca say it's done.
United say it's not.
LVG says we have a list of GK to take his place (as we have for every position) but we want him to stay and sign the contract.
 
Wonder if there is any truth in the Carvajal rumours, hardly Bale but he would be a great addition non the less.
 
diarm said:
Not true. Players like Schmeichel, Van der Sar, Irwin, Bruce, Pallister, Robson, Keane, Vidic, Evra, Rio, Carrick, Solskjaer, Cole, Yorke and more, all dedicated the peaks of their careers to United. All signed without any thoughts in the back of their minds of moving on to a bigger club. None were homegrown. Any who moved on, moved because it suited the club.

Of the current crop, I'd be stunned if Juan Mata, Blind, Smalling or Ander Herrera are planning to force a move to Madrid or Barca in a couple of years.
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Don't get me wrong I'm not saying we can't keep them but that we can't be sure when signing them that we will keep hold of them. There was plenty of rumours of Vidic moving for a few seasons while he was around his peak for example, he could easily have gone earlier if his wife nagged one more time in his ear. I should have mentioned that British Isles based players would be more reliable in general to keep hold of too but for players from the continent or South America we could never be sure. Unfortunately British players are extraordinarily overpriced these days and often not top drawer.

Trust me if Herrera gets to a level where Barca or Real start sniffing about, if being outside of Spain is costing him a regular national team place, it could very easily be tears again.
 
VanGaalEra said:
Marca say it's done.
United say it's not.
LVG says we have a list of GK to take his place (as we have for every position) but we want him to stay and sign the contract.
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Just seen the LVG quotes, that's pretty much as close as you're going to get to 'we know he's off' from the boss.

I'm not even angry tbh, I accepted it ages ago. I'll probably be pissed off once its official mind.
 
VanGaalEra said:
Not like 2 seasons ago DDG was either. Someone like Herrera could easily develop into being good enough.
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2 seasons ago Real Madrid weren't nearly as interested as now. If Herrera becomes one of the best CMs in Europe and either Barca/Real are truly interested then we will truly see about his ambition and desires.
There is always this risk that when a player gets to a certain level, he will attract attention from other clubs. We can only hope the club is smart enough to give him incentives to stay otherwise most of the power is in the player's hands.
 
diarm said:
@Empire

I just watched an entire game in the time it took you to construct an answer in which you spectacularly failed to understand my points.
You have taken most of my quotes you've used out of the context they used in.

I mentioned Valdes and Lindegaard (two fine goalkeepers) in response to other posters comments that it was somehow legally or morally wrong to keep a player who is not starting for you. You have said that you play your best players. This is not true, otherwise Hull City would be playing Jake Livermore this weekend. You play the players that are best for the club. If we are forced to sign a new keeper this summer, and we have a slightly better keeper who doesn't want to be here and is leaving at the end of next season, you play the keeper who is here to stay.


For the second quote, I did say those words. I would see more benefit in that than in being bullied into selling him to Real Madrid. But that is not my motivation for not wanting to sell him to Madrid. I've explained that to you several times now.

As for your last hilarious little retort, of course I don't think it's likely that Rooney will come out and ask to join Liverpool. It was a hypthetical question.

If you cannot see the similarities between an Everton fan asking to return to Liverpool, but to join his boyhood rivals instead, I can't teach you to.
If you cannot see the point I have valiantly tried to make about treating the rivals we want to compete with, just as harshly as we would the historic rivals like Liverpool who we should now be aiming several levels above, then we have hugely different ambitions for our club.

As for the laughing face, far from hurting me, it just brings to an end any respect I have for somebody who no longer has an intelligent argument to offer the debate.
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The time it took me to construct an answer? You might want to spend most of your day arguing but some of us have better things to do. And the quotes were not taken out of context.

The Valdes situation isn't comparable to De Gea's therefore it was a poor comparison to make.

Yes, I know you said those words, I took them directly from your posts. We are not being bullied by Real Madrid into selling him, what a poor observation, Louis van Gaal has even said there are three parties involved (Us, Madrid and De Gea) but the player has the power. We are not being bullied by anybody, De Gea is simply contemplating whether to renew his contract or to return to his home city. If he doesn't renew then the club have a decision to make on how to proceed. The manager seems to prefer letting the player go instead of keeping him around.

'I don't think it's likely that Rooney will come out and ask to join Liverpool', i think that's an understatement, it's almost certain he will not.

In regards to the first line of the penultimate paragraph, you are now trying to turn this into a moral question on whether it is right for De Gea to play for his previous club's rivals, well that is a different topic entirely. As for the rest of that, we play Liverpool a minimum of twice each season and contest two major trophies with them, we rarely play Real Madrid and contest only one trophy with them therefore the way we behave to our European rivals is understandably different, it is not practical to consistently relegate players to the bench or as you said 'and giving him a season without match practice' when our European rivals offer money to sign a player that will move to them on a free anyway.

Your logic would have been to bench Ronaldo for a season and say no to £80m, I for one am glad the board and Sir Alex Ferguson acted in a completely different way.

You seem to be telling me and I have noticed others too that we don't have an intelligent argument to offer the debate when we laugh at something you have said, maybe you should stop acting like the internet village idiot.

It's been about 6 and a half hours since you posted that, just so you know this post took very little time to construct before you accuse me needing 6.5 hours to reply :lol:
 
Pexbo said:
Won't allow him to clap the crowd like others do when it's their last home game for their club? He'll clap them all he likes what's he going to do, drop him?
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Didn't you say 'we find tomorrow if he addresses the crowd'?
 
Hed Zitin said:
Atletico traitor.
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"De Gea, you will never be one of us".

Seems many didn't like him after he left to come here, they're likely to despise him at Figo levels if he does move.
 
Loublaze said:
Didn't you say 'we find tomorrow if he addresses the crowd'?
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Yeah. I'm not saying he's going to grab a mic or anything. There's been a million players who signify that they are leaving the club before it has been announced by giving their fans a final clap and wave.
 
Pexbo said:
Yeah. I'm not saying he's going to grab a mic or anything. There's been a million players who signify that they are leaving the club before it has been announced by giving their fans a final clap and wave.
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All the players will be doing that tomorrow anyway?
 
dwd said:
All the players will be doing that tomorrow anyway?
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Yeah I'm not being totally serious. It's more a prediction than anything, it's what I think people will be talking about. There will be a lot of body language experts tomorrow.
 
duffer said:
Yes it's tapping up. It's also how all transfers are done nowadays.
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Pretty much. I mean, we now hear of deals being "subject to personal terms being agreed". And then within a few hours, they're agreed.

I highly doubt any team even approaches other clubs without being given very good indications by the player that they're keen.
 
R'hllor said:
He didnt do anything bad if he wants to leave?! So he didnt do anything bad,hell Madrid didnt do anything bad,let me guess somehow its our fault and we did something bad...
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Nobody "did anything bad", it's just the nature of wanting to try something else when you have the opportunity to do so.
 
devilish said:
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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You sure eh? Even if evil version of SAF was a City fan? :smirk:

Our evil club helped raise money when you most needed it aswell after you'd been struck by some horrible tragedy.

Let's not try to forget that either.
 
diarm said:
My word.

Once more for those at the back. It is not his entire future. It is a 4 year contract.
If a player can't commit to a 4 year contract at Manchester United, he has no business signing it.
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You found a time machine, right?

Get back from the 80's mate. No place for romance in modern football.
 
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This thread has 12 more pages than since I was last online. I will just assume there have been no major developments though. Can't believe this could be his last game at OT for us. Hope he pulls off some world class saves for old times' sake.
 
Vato said:
You sure eh? Even if evil version of SAF was a City fan? :smirk:

Our evil club helped raise money when you most needed it aswell after you'd been struck by some horrible tragedy.

Let's not try to forget that either.
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That's true. As said history cant be the denied. Same thing can be said about il generalissimo's contribution to your club
 
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Antisocial said:
The worst thing about all of this is that he is leaving his beloved Juan :( I really had DDG down as a better character than to do that to someone with so many hugs :(
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Mata will still have Ander Herrera to give some hugs to.
 
Is it confirmed that this will be DDG's last home game for us? I have not found anything concrete on the net or on here but from all the posts it seems like he is definitely off. Is it LVG's quotes which has triggered these alarms?
 
NK86 said:
Is it confirmed that this will be DDG's last home game for us? I have not found anything concrete on the net or on here but from all the posts it seems like he is definitely off. Is it LVG's quotes which has triggered these alarms?
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What do you think? Rarely a manager would say that kind of quote in a presser, but he did.
 
Kakeru said:
What do you think? Rarely a manager would say that kind of quote in a presser, but he did.
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Might as well have come out with the whole truth in that case if he was absolutely sure that DDG is leaving. Maybe he was just confirming to the fans that we have a fall back plan if need be. I too feel that he will leave, but I have not completely lost hope of him extending with us.
 
Apparently (according to the tabloids today)

He will have a family meting to decide his future (Let's be honest his gf and parents probably want him in Madrid)

And Madrid won't pay more than 18m or they will wait for him on a free next summer.

Hopefully it's all rubbish but taking football out of it he is probably at the age where you start thinking more about marriage kids and family so I wouldn't be surprised to see him head home either this or next summer
 
sun_tzu said:
Apparently (according to the tabloids today)

He will have a family meting to decide his future (Let's be honest his gf and parents probably want him in Madrid)

And Madrid won't pay more than 18m or they will wait for him on a free next summer.

Hopefully it's all rubbish but taking football out of it he is probably at the age where you start thinking more about marriage kids and family so I wouldn't be surprised to see him head home either this or next summer
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18 million would be a bit such a good deal for Madrid.
 
sun_tzu said:
Apparently (according to the tabloids today)

He will have a family meting to decide his future (Let's be honest his gf and parents probably want him in Madrid)

And Madrid won't pay more than 18m or they will wait for him on a free next summer.

Hopefully it's all rubbish but taking football out of it he is probably at the age where you start thinking more about marriage kids and family so I wouldn't be surprised to see him head home either this or next summer
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His GF....Ha right, if reports are to be believed, he's shagged half of Manchester at this stage.

As for 18 million....Christ
 
sun_tzu said:
Apparently (according to the tabloids today)

He will have a family meting to decide his future (Let's be honest his gf and parents probably want him in Madrid)

And Madrid won't pay more than 18m or they will wait for him on a free next summer.

Hopefully it's all rubbish but taking football out of it he is probably at the age where you start thinking more about marriage kids and family so I wouldn't be surprised to see him head home either this or next summer
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Doesnt his girlfriend live in Barcelona?
 
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