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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Who's leaking these stories of renewal? I'm calling bollocks until I see something legit...
 
Amazing our outdated IT equipment didn't affect the deals with PSV, Southampton, Bayern, and Torino.
 
Should never have allowed Moyesy to take his iPads back, IMO.
 
That's the single worst piece of 'journalism' from the whole window.

Wow, what a load of crap. I enjoyed all the jokey stuff around the clubs IT systems, but shoehorning an article out of it?! Oh well, this sort of thing passes for journalism thesedays.
 
Wow, what a load of crap. I enjoyed all the jokey stuff around the clubs IT systems, but shoehorning an article out of it?! Oh well, this sort of thing passes for journalism thesedays.

The attachment must have exceeded the 5Mb limit for the free email account we use.
 
Definitely says something about those that would believe drivel like that.

It's the Telegraph, a once great newspaper that fired it's quality journalists wholesale and set off into the brave new digital world without a clue as to how they were going to navigate those waters. Anyone who follows "Street of Shame" in the Eye knows that sales have plummeted, the web pages are filled with sponsored content, and they can't even give away copies of the rag itself. Sad really.
 
Regardless, whatever happens is fundamentally David's decision; not Mendes', or Edurne's, or whoever's.

Agree 100%.
It surprises me to think that a grown man can have decisions made for him by other people, as if he is some 12 year old kid.
He is a grown man. Very wealthy. He is mentally normal. He makes his own decisions.
If any of you disagree with DDG's decision making, don't blame his agent, his mum, girlfriend, grand mother or dog.
Blame DDG.

As someone said earlier, this is a purely professional decision. He feels that Madrid are bigger club, so it'll be good for his career. When you also consider that his family live in Spain and Madrid is far more glamorous than Manchester, it makes it a no-brainer, for him.

I don't feel that he will sign another contract with us, but I do believe he will play in our first team, until he leaves.
 
That's the single worst piece of 'journalism' from the whole window.
"a unified experience for fans" implies manutd.com and possibly our social media experience would get a well needed overhaul. Our website is almost certainly a completely different system from the internal systems, and even the internal systems are probably well differentiated. Nonsense, sensational article. I work in IT btw.
 
How often does a player as good as De Gea actually let their contract expire? It can't be often. He'll get a hefty pay increase and leave guarantees.
 
As I said before, from a commercial view, which his agent and finance team must put first, signing a new contract with us is essential.

Without it, a serious injury within the next 6 months, whether career ending or 12 months plus out the game, would be utterly disastrous financially, never mind the physical issues. It is his agents job to protect him from being in that position, so signing a new contract with a release clause is best for everyone, bar madrid. He has his protection against something happening to him, we gain control over his leaving.
 
As I said before, from a commercial view, which his agent and finance team must put first, signing a new contract with us is essential.

Without it, a serious injury within the next 6 months, whether career ending or 12 months plus out the game, would be utterly disastrous financially, never mind the physical issues. It is his agents job to protect him from being in that position, so signing a new contract with a release clause is best for everyone, bar madrid. He has his protection against something happening to him, we gain control over his leaving.
I think that will be what happens in the end. From what I've read, Mendes always wanted him to resign and leave through the front door instead of the back. Mendes isn't a saint by any means, but in this case his interest and our align because he would want money from the signing on fee and his % of the transfer along with a continued good relationship with United.
 
Perez's mouthpiece Marca reckons that if De Gea signs a new contract, that'll probably be that. Since the relationship between the two clubs is sour, they don't want to negotiate.
 
Wouldn't have thought they'd take it that far as to make up an amount he's already been paid, but then again, this is my first time reading a SportWitness 'article'.
Clubs cannot make pre-contracts with other players (unless the player is on the last 6 months of his contract) which means that they cannot guarantee that they will sign a player. In fact, they aren't supposed to even talk with the player until the selling club accepts the bid, or player is on the last months of his contract.

While, this doesn't stop the clubs tapping up players, it goes in the level of discussing things and gentleman agreements. If something is put in the paper, then we could sue Madrid, and at the very least they will be in very big trouble.

The compensation package if the transfer doesn't happen, or the bonus fee if you run the contract down, or compensation fee the other way around if De Gea resigns for United, are a Marca invention. sportwitness most likely have just read one of their articles.

What could be real though, is that Madrid-Mendez-De Gea have a gentleman agreement that Madrid will pay X-amount of money as signing on fee, but nothing official. If De Gea resigns for United, Madrid can do feck all. If Madrid doesn't want De Gea after a year, De Gea can do feck all. If Madrid offers De Gea only 5m signing on fee, the most De Gea can do is not sign the contract.
 
Perez's mouthpiece Marca reckons that if De Gea signs a new contract, that'll probably be that. Since the relationship between the two clubs is sour, they don't want to negotiate.

Wonderful. This whole saga will benefit us so much in the future, as long as Woodward is here Madrid will be reluctant to deal with us.
 
Perez's mouthpiece Marca reckons that if De Gea signs a new contract, that'll probably be that. Since the relationship between the two clubs is sour, they don't want to negotiate.

I dunno, I still think it'll happen. Clubs don't have to be particularly friendly in order to do business: Fergie once stated something along the lines of that he wouldn't sell Real Madrid a cold...yet then we sold Ronaldo to them. If they want De Gea, they'll still pursue him. Even if De Gea signs a new contract, he'll probably still go presuming he wants to, and we get a good fee for him.
 
I think once Perez is given the elbow there won't be a problem. I think Madrid would do business with us, but I doubt whoever replaces him would want De Gea - especially if Navas is doing well
 
Exactly! We don't get Bale … but they won't get ANY of our promising youngsters once they start performing to potential!
... unless their contract is set to expire..

We should try to negotiate a deal with Barca for a swap with Ter Stegen. Both clubs would be happy.
 
It's on the SportWitness site, which is utter clickbait, made-up shite.

Thats not really true though...that article isnt made up, its rather a translation of the el pais article...whether the original article is true or not isnt on sport witness...but the thing amount madrid owing de gea a fee if the transfer didnt go through has been constantly run by the spanish press , not just marca. Its not exactly legal, but so is talking to a player under contract, and this evidently happened here.
 
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