De Gea Contract Situation
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We'll see.
We need to sign him up! Every day that goes by scares me!
Yeah, he definitely changed agent not long before we signed him. Hopefully that won't come back to haunt us. Even more reason to hope Falcao has a brilliant second half of the season!
I think if we asked him to change to mendes(and given the 6m we paid him for bebe) its very unlikely mendes would try to blackmail us like that.
I don't think he'd blackmail us at all. I don't really buy into conspiracy theories anyway. Just an interesting observation really. If we do end up signing Falcao on a big bucks permanent deal, it might make Mendes more willing to lean on his client to accept whatever contract is on the table.
All fairly reasonable arguments.
But wrt De Gea's English being poor, remember someone like Martinez still can't speak flawless English despite being in the country for almost 2 decades. Ditto with a Michel Salgado, a self professed anglophile who joined Blackburn in 2007, and has been on Sky Sports for the past 4-5 years. Sometimes it's hard to get rid of an accent. Every year the likes of Silva or Aguero are linked with moves to Spain. They can't speak brilliant English either. But still keep renewing their contracts.
People presume that he wants to go back to Spain yet we've never heard a single word out of David to that end. Usually when a Spanish player in unhappy in England there'll be media rumors - case in point Jose Antonio Reyes at Arsenal or Alvaro Negredo last season at City. In contrast with that, De Gea is always effusive in his praise for the clubs, the fans, the city and so forth. Could he be deceiving us all ?
Even if he was going back to Spain, it will be to Atletico. Real Madrid will not sign him, whatever they do. De Gea's situation right now is quite similar to Fernando Torres' in 2004 and 2005, when he was considered the most high profile young player in the world behind maybe only Wayne Rooney and Real made several attempts to sign him. But being an Atletico kid, he turned them down every single time. Even after his initial success at Liverpool, he just wouldn't consider a switch to Real Madrid. His former Liverpool team-mate Alvaro Arbeloa gave an interview pertaining to that :
It's very hard for Real to sign Atletico's homegrown players, especially ones who're considered heroes like Torres and De Gea, because of the latter winning the UEFA Cup at age 20.
I also don't agree with the later sentence -
This one doesn't make a lot of sense. United had qualified for the Champion's League for almost 20 consecutive seasons. Is one anomalous year reason enough to justify classifying us as European also-rans ? That's not fair at all. Just 4-5 seasons ago Bayern were outside of the Top 5-10 teams in Europe while United were qualifying for European finals and Real Madrid was being steamrolled by Barcelona, whose dominance was looking unending. Yet now the tables have been seemingly reversed. Fortunes can turn around very quickly in football. One needs to look no further than the ascendance of Atletico or the fall of Dortmund to know that. The signs are extremely promising for United. The owners are now ready to spend massive money, and we have an elite manager in charge. There's every chance that we could get back to where we were under Fergie.
Woddy has also spoken of the desire to have some of the best players at United to lure more sponsors in. So there is reason to believe that he will move heaven and earth to resign De Gea. Infact I wouldn't be surprised if he offered record salaries for a goalkeeper, or atleast Neuer level.
Mendes is influential but he doesn't make decisions for the player. If De Gea wants to stay, he'll stay anyway. I guess our relationship with Mendes will be good enough even without making Falcao's deal permanent, it's really a two-way co-operation with both sides taking advantage from it and Mendes won't want to lose his strong ties with United either.
I don't like the fact that further negotiations seem to have been postponed to 2015 by the looks of it. I'd really rather we signed him up to a longer deal by the end of year, the longer it drags the less confident I am. We really should have given him a new deal last year.
I don't think DDG is such a soft touch that if he has the desire to go back to Spain, to play for Real, that Mendes would talk him out of it.
All ifs buts and maybes but agents are hugely influential when it comes to their clients career decisions. De Gea might well be a stubborn character but Mendes didn't get where he is by being a pushover either.
On the positives he's ridden out early confidence shakes, got used to the English game and come out of all the managerial/coaching changes one of the top keepers, if not thee top keeper. He's probably proved a lot wrong on the way. I suppose if you were going to bail out, you might have done it at one of those points? Fingers crossed he'll stop here anyway.
If the player wants to leave, the club can't do anything about it can they? Especially with his contract only having 18 months to go.
Woodward should dress up as a fan and approach him for an autograph, but instead get him to sign a new contract.
I don't like the idea that the validity of a source is determined solely on whether Joe Bloggs thinks it is feasible or not. It was probably 'lies' that we were after Falcao.
Also, Richard Tanner from The Express seems to be a very well-respected journalist for example, especially regarding United.
Any chance your podcast guy picked it up from here?
Well then expect it to be in the tabloids soon
I have no idea. I guess it's possible.
I saw this pic on the Daily Mail website again the other day. I wouldn't be surprised if podcasters and the gutter press pinch transfer conspiracies and ideas from the caf too, as well as photoshops and gifs.
I'm sorry, but I don't accept that at all, I don't think most people on this site would accept it either.
The amount of clearly obvious bilge spewed out by The Express on a daily basis suggests that they are simply making stuff up. Some of it isn't even remotely believable, suggesting that they are making no effort whatsoever or they are on a deliberate WUM to see whether anyone believes them.
I remember The Express article saying we were buying Lennon for £40m.
The Express is bollocks. The only papers I somewhat put any faith in is The Telegraph, Guardian and Observer.
I agree that certain stories are likely bollocks. I just think that it should be observed that we have little clue either. And I'm also saying that Richard Tanner is apparently a respected journo, and I believe he writes for The Express. Steve Bates seems to have connections too and he writes for The People or another equally ridiculous paper.
I just think each story is to be taken individually. Hopefully any story of De Gea's renewal is well-founded!
The Express 
. Just hacks with no sources and too much time on their hands. Equivalent to the Daily Star.
Express/Daily Star = 100% made up drivel
Daily Mail/Sun = 90% made up drivel
. Just hacks with no sources and too much time on their hands. Equivalent to the Daily Star.Express/Daily Star = 100% made up drivel
Daily Mail/Sun = 90% made up drivel
I wouldn't worry. Dave seems happy, he will be staying.
I started a FIFA manager career mode a couple weeks ago and at the beginning of the third season De Gea requested a transfer, broke my heart, started the whole thing again from the beginning. If he does it again I'm going to burn my FIFA disc.
Watch them steal the ones from the Keane/Cleverley thread. That's why people should always tag them.
Usually it helps if you just offer them a new contract over and over again and sudenly they come with "i want to stay" thing.
If you'll read tomorrow that he wants go to Madrid, you have to know, that's tomorrow is Spanish equivalent of Fool's Day.
I've seen this idea mentioned a few times on here in the past couple of years. Why do people think that having a different coach for each of the last 3 seasons is a hindrance? For me, surely it is better to get different perspectives, new ideas, new ways of training etc.
I'm talking about coaches specifically, not managers. That's a completely different thing.
I wouldn't say "Don't want him"
I'm sure just about any team on the planet minus perhaps Chelsea or Bayern would want him right now.
But hopefully a positive sign he's staying.
He does it in Football Manager too
They'll sign Lloris in the summer, nothing to see here.
Whichever cnut wrote that article needs to feck off.
I suppose we'd better used to this now - the constant links to Real will never stop!
I'm resigned to losing him to Spain eventually, I just hope when he does go we're in a better position than we are now and we manage to find a suitable replacement.
Mendes is his agent? That's interesting.
Bleacher Report jeez. Anyone who got in early on that site still gets away with writing tripe.
Mitten's take on the matter.
That's a good sign, he's our favorite agent.
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