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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Revan said:
I think that Lloris is comfortably better than Navas. If we really sell De Gea, we should insist on a deal with Madrid which says that we sell De Gea for that amount of money we can get Lloris (similar to Torres-Carroll transfer). Failing that, keep De Gea for an another season and then go all in for Lloris. Or just go now for him 30-40m and sell De Gea for whatever Real pays (20m+).

I think that a great keeper, who won't have problems to adapt to the league is very important. Cech could be another good solution, but I don't think that he has been that great since his injury (though is very reliable).
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How does that work? Real can have De Gea for free next year, they're not going to agree on that and besides I don't think anything of a sort has ever happened.

We'd have to pay at least £50m for Lloris next year, possibly around £70m. It'd be the worst deal ever. There's absolutely no way Levy would sell him to a Premier League side for £30m or even £40m. I guess it'd be around £60m realistically.
 
So quick question. If De Gea announces that he has no intention of signing a new contract, whilst there is an offer of 25M on the table this season from Madrid. Would you prefer to keep him for one more season and let him leave on a free (Basically doing a Dortmund with Lewandowski), or take the money and sell him?
 
Can anyone post me a credible source indicating that he's leaving? Anyone?
 
devil in me said:
So quick question. If De Gea announces that he has no intention of signing a new contract, whilst there is an offer of 25M on the table this season from Madrid. Would you prefer to keep him for one more season and let him leave on a free (Basically doing a Dortmund with Lewandowski), or take the money and sell him?
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Then when he leaves Cech just happens to be be available on a free.

Will Cech deteriorate if he continues to play so little?

I think I'd prefer to let him go in the summer and try to get Cech.
 
Signing Valdes seems like a good contingency plan by the board. If De Gea does leave then it means we're not scrambling around in the summer and grossly overpaying for a keeper having already got a relatively able replacement. Considering how much faith we put in him though, I'd be pretty livid if he decided to bugger off after a season or two of good performances. I'm vindictive enough to say; forgo the transfer fee and keep him on the bench all season. Lets see how you regress after a year of no competitive football. All hypothetical though, if he stays I'll love him forever. Does that make me fickle? :smirk:
 
devil in me said:
So quick question. If De Gea announces that he has no intention of signing a new contract, whilst there is an offer of 25M on the table this season from Madrid. Would you prefer to keep him for one more season and let him leave on a free (Basically doing a Dortmund with Lewandowski), or take the money and sell him?
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We're a very wealthy club, obviously we should keep him.
 
Cina said:
We're a very wealthy club, obviously we should keep him.
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Do we really want an unhappy keeper who is forced to be here? It's not a position you can mess around with. I'd let him go.
 
ivaldo said:
Can anyone post me a credible source indicating that he's leaving? Anyone?
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There is no credible source that I'm aware of although Andy Mitten has said that Real Madrid expect De Gea to be their number 1. He is wrong often so I haven't listed him as a credible source.

The feeling that De Gea may probably leave is due to people putting a few clues together as well as De Gea not having signed a contract yet.
 
kps88 said:
Do we really want an unhappy keeper who is forced to be here? It's not a position you can mess around with. I'd let him go.
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I'm not sure what reason he'd have to be unhappy. It's only one year and he'd be guaranteed going to Real at the end of it without any fuss. I doubt it'd affect his performances.
 
I'm think he's going, i have said it many times on here, but i suppose there is always the slight chance that he's waiting to see if we finish in the Top 4 before signing and Real Madrid isn't in his thoughts.
Thats way too positive thinking for me lol but it COULD be that.
 
I can't tell why, but I feel that he is staying and we will be the best team in the world in 3 years.
 
Sarni said:
How does that work? Real can have De Gea for free next year, they're not going to agree on that and besides I don't think anything of a sort has ever happened.

We'd have to pay at least £50m for Lloris next year, possibly around £70m. It'd be the worst deal ever. There's absolutely no way Levy would sell him to a Premier League side for £30m or even £40m. I guess it'd be around £60m realistically.
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I think that Liverpool-Chelsea deal for Torres was Carroll fee + 15m.

Obviously Madrid can get him for free a year later but there are some problems. First, it won't have him for next season. Then there is the possibility of him changing his mind and renewing the contract (like Reus did). And finally, a year later (when he won't const nothing) could mean that other teams can be interested on him (Barca if Ter Stegen doesn't work or even Atletico). Also, if Madrid wants him as the new Galactico, then I guess they want him this year.

50m for Lloris seems quite much to me. Obviously, if Levy asks that much we should look for other keepers. But for 30m I think that it would be a very good deal for us (if De Gea leaves) because I think that while there will be a drop on quality, we would still have an excellent keeper.
 
Cina said:
We're a very wealthy club, obviously we should keep him.
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Agree with this. 25m isn't nothing compared to the difference De Gea makes for us. It could be the difference between going in UCL or not (if we don't improve, while if we improve it could be the difference between competing/winning the title or not competing for it).
 
Can we find him a new girlfriend? If she's not moving because of her career, it could be argued that De Gea moving back home to Madrid would not be the best move for his career too. Their fans shit on you if you're not from their youth team, look at Ronaldo, he's undoubtedly the best player they've had in years and the moment he struggles by only scoring 5 goals in 10 games, they're booing him.
 
Revan said:
I think that Liverpool-Chelsea deal for Torres was Carroll fee + 15m.

Obviously Madrid can get him for free a year later but there are some problems. First, it won't have him for next season. Then there is the possibility of him changing his mind and renewing the contract (like Reus did). And finally, a year later (when he won't const nothing) could mean that other teams can be interested on him (Barca if Ter Stegen doesn't work or even Atletico). Also, if Madrid wants him as the new Galactico, then I guess they want him this year.

50m for Lloris seems quite much to me. Obviously, if Levy asks that much we should look for other keepers. But for 30m I think that it would be a very good deal for us (if De Gea leaves) because I think that while there will be a drop on quality, we would still have an excellent keeper.
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Even if other teams are interested in De Gea they won't have financial power to make him a better offer than Real Madrid. Barcelona have ter Stegen and he's a long term plan, Bayern obviously have Neuer and Chelsea have Courtois, City have Hart. Real Madrid will be the only team that will realistically need him next year and they'd probably set up a deal this year like Bayern had done with Lewandowski (it was obvious for a year he'd go there for free). I think they could get away with playing Casillas and Navas for an extra year, if anything they'd have the upper hand in negotiations regarding De Gea.

I think Liverpool-Chelsea deal was only made that way in principle, it wasn't a contract that had a set amount that said that Chelsea have to pay whatever Liverpool pay for Carroll plus extra.
 
devil in me said:
So quick question. If De Gea announces that he has no intention of signing a new contract, whilst there is an offer of 25M on the table this season from Madrid. Would you prefer to keep him for one more season and let him leave on a free (Basically doing a Dortmund with Lewandowski), or take the money and sell him?
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I would keep him, bench him, pay for Lloris or Ter Stagen. He can frak off to Madrid after a year in reserves. This is United, we need to show balls and teeth and bullied around by the mercenaries from Madrid.
 
Telcontar said:
I would keep him, bench him, pay for Lloris or Ter Stagen. He can frak off to Madrid after a year in reserves. This is United, we need to show balls and teeth and bullied around by the mercenaries from Madrid.
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If it becomes clear that we have a Lewandowski on our hands, then the club should make a statement of the kind you mentioned so the players don't think about running down their contracts in the future.
 
devil in me said:
So quick question. If De Gea announces that he has no intention of signing a new contract, whilst there is an offer of 25M on the table this season from Madrid. Would you prefer to keep him for one more season and let him leave on a free (Basically doing a Dortmund with Lewandowski), or take the money and sell him?
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You clearly sell, 25m isn't nothing.
 
JPRouve said:
You clearly sell, 25m isn't nothing.
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I know. £25 million for a goalkeeper with twelve months left on his deal is an astonishing amount of money.

If Dave wants to leave then we'll be lucky to make a profit on him.

But yes, if Madrid offers that amount of money and he wants the move then we're accepting it and so we should. We're rich, but not that rich.
 
It's a bit worrying that he hasn't signed yet.

But on the other hand what gives me hope is that the Madrid based media have hardly come out with anything reliable either and apart from a speculative article here or there, there haven't really been many rumours in the Spanish media about him joining them either.

Anyway he is with the Spanish squad next week, I am sure he will be asked about the contract situation. But he'll probably only say he is concentrating on the game/the season or something like that.
 
I reckon we should offer a five year deal with a clause that activates if we don't get into the CL next season. Maybe something to like 35-40 million. That way we keep an excellent keeper, if we fail to perform the De Gea is able to move to a club fulfilling his dreams, we get a good fee and Real get a great keeper.
 
whatever happens I just hope victor valdes doesn't become our number 1 keeper. I'm already losing sleep at the thought of that.
 
RedRevenge said:
I reckon we should offer a five year deal with a clause that activates if we don't get into the CL next season. Maybe something to like 35-40 million. That way we keep an excellent keeper, if we fail to perform the De Gea is able to move to a club fulfilling his dreams, we get a good fee and Real get a great keeper.
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That is probably what I would do too.
 
I don't know what is more depressing, the thought of De Gea leaving, or reading about people wanting to pay monopoly money for Lloris. Don't know what is going on behind the scene, but i bet Woody has thrown everything at De Gea as far as financial compensation goes. I just don't feel at ease with Mendes as his agent.
 
I've decided he will stay at United and rang up my good pal Floren to inform him about this.

You can thank me later.
 
RedRevenge said:
I reckon we should offer a five year deal with a clause that activates if we don't get into the CL next season. Maybe something to like 35-40 million. That way we keep an excellent keeper, if we fail to perform the De Gea is able to move to a club fulfilling his dreams, we get a good fee and Real get a great keeper.
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His dreams?
 
Richard Keys on the BeIN coverage of our game on Sunday said they had spent some time with Calderon, covering the Classico, where Calderon gave some very strong suggestions that he is Madrid bound.

I know Richard Keys is a WUM, and i hope this is a nothing story, but its getting harder to imagine him here next season. Is there any reason for him to stall with the contract besides considering his options?
 
The performances in the last few games must surely have helped the situation, there's genuine signs of the team getting back to the top of their game and back to winning ways.
 
The delay in contract talks is very worrying. He doesn't strike me as a mercenary or someone to mess a club about so therefore I would of expected him to sign by now or at least publicly announce something regarding an imminent agreement. There has been talks in the papers and media since October that he was leaving/signing a new contract and now it's 5 months on and there has been no further news.

The signing of Valdes is also abit puzzling. Lindegaard is a very capable number two and can cover if DDG were to get injured. Most likely if we didn't sign Valdes, he was going to join another club, with the possibility that DDG is to leave we thought it would be best to sign him. Also the quotes by his girlfriend are worrying. We should definitely try to include one of their players as part of the deal because I can't see us getting more than £25m for him considering he only has a year on his contract.
 
kafta said:
Richard Keys on the BeIN coverage of our game on Sunday said they had spent some time with Calderon, covering the Classico, where Calderon gave some very strong suggestions that he is Madrid bound.

I know Richard Keys is a WUM, and i hope this is a nothing story, but its getting harder to imagine him here next season. Is there any reason for him to stall with the contract besides considering his options?
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I guess the only one is top four insurance. But I guess even that could fall under 'considering other options.'
 
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