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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So we are going to lose Falcao and possibly DeGea and DiMaria in the summer, thats a big loss even before we start trying to buy new players to improve us from this season.
I think we are going to need to spend HUGE again in the summer, otherwise we will have another 'transition' season like this one again.
 
I didn't think it at all possible in 2015, but that it would happen sooner than later. Now, it feels likely. Between the Valdes signing, the lack of the extension, the growing whispers, his gf...it's like a rock inching towards the edge before rolling down the hill.

Also I used to think all the love he was getting from the club Twitter and the official site was to build up to his extension, now it seems like more of a full-court press to convince him to stay
 
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The noises around this have been all wrong. For a long time we were talking about how we were "confident" that he would sign a new deal. That was either guff being fed to the media, or we had reason to think it. If we had reason, it was either a misreading of the situation, or Mendes gave us reason to be confident. If the latter, then you have to wonder whether he misled us, or whether something has changed. Either way, it beggars belief that we should ever have been this calm about a truly world class player, with not far off a year to go on his deal and speculation linking him to arguably the biggest club in the world, not to mention even that they are in his hometown.

Fwiw I think we know and have known for a long time that he's off this summer. The rest is just media spin.
 
He would be incredibly stupid to go there IMO regardless of where he's from. They could easily turn on him if he makes mistakes.
 
I honestly don't think that he's going anywhere. There's nothing to suggest he's in any way unhappy.
 
SambaBoy said:
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.
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He could just be waiting to know that we've got CL football next season.
 
He'll be here for a long time. I don't think his contract situation has anything to do with him wanting to leave or waiting to see if we qualify for CL.

Looks like we're just leaving extensions late these days, none of our other first team players that are out of contract next year have received an offer and there are quite a few more: Smalling, Jones, Young, RVP.
 
If we can end the season strongly I think he will stay. With the way the PL is we could be challenging for it by next season, which means he is a chance to win trophies.
 
I'm beginning to get worried now. I used to think he was likely to stay. But if Madrid lose La Liga to Barcelona and come up empty in Champions League, major changes are going to happen and that in my mind includes De Gea replacing Casillas.
 
I saw a tweet today (can't remember where from unfortunately) that said the club is still relaxed regarding his contract. Could be nonsense but then again maybe there is some truth to it.
 
Cech was asked about a possible move to Real Madrid.

Wouldn't that be grand.
 
Raoul said:
Don't think he's leaving. We're building something big here and he's a central part of it.
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That's what I hope as well. In the end, you never know and if we're honest, there are many good reasons why he would move to Madrid
 
ZDwyr said:
I saw a tweet today (can't remember where from unfortunately) that said the club is still relaxed regarding his contract. Could be nonsense but then again maybe there is some truth to it.
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I strongly believe champs lge qualification will sway his decision to stay or move hence the delay in getting the contract signed.
 
We need to give De Gea whatever he wants.
He is our player of the year and is worth a lot of points (per season).
I would no problems making him the highest paid goal keeper in the World, by a considerable margin.
Do whatever it takes.
 
This is carried over from the Transfer Tweets thread, but basically I think Madrid are only going to spend big on a CM, so will have lots of money to throw at De Gea. I think we're in trouble here.

There's no reason for Real to add Reus unless Bale or Ronaldo goes (they already have top level attacking depth), and if that happens they'll get a bucket of cash then the FFP issues aren't a big deal.

My guess: Reus is staying. The Danilo rumours are true and Madrid's summer looks like this:

IN:
Danilo - 20-30 - fighting with Carvajal for the RB spot
Pogba or another CM - 70 if Pogba, 40-50 if someone like Verrati or Javi Martinez and 30 if it's almost anyone else, be it Schweinsteiger, Vidal, Kondogbia (if Monaco beat Juventus and Kroos-Modric gets dominated, powerful guys like him will surely be looked at).
De Gea - 50-80 - Undisputed starter for 15 years. A steal.
Striker - 20-230 - No idea. Morata could come back, Vietto could join. SOmeone to back up Benzema better than Hernandez has done.

OUT:
Khedira - Bosman - Schalke, Leverkusen and Wolfsburg could all use an 8 with CL experience.
Illaramendi - 15-20 -Whoever loses the Schneiderlin battle between Liverpool and Arsenal, or one of the Basque sides
Arbeloa - 3-5 - No idea. Italy? Spurs could use a reliable fullback to partner with Arbeloa.
Casillas - 8-10 - Discussed, but basically any big team with a crap goalie, like Liverpool, Arsenal or Dortmund.


Leaving them like this:

-------Benzema--------- (Backup 9)
Ronaldo-----------Bale- (Isco, Jese)
-----James---Modric---- (Pogba, Isco)
---------Kroos--------- (L.Silva)
Marcelo--------Carvajal (Coentrao, Danilo)
----Pepe----Ramos------ (Varane, Nacho)
-------De Gea---------- (Navas)
 
Melvyn said:
Yeah those thinking he'll go for a big fee are kidding themselves.
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This is very true, if we get anything north of £30 million i'd be surprised, would rather players in exchange....... Modric, or Varane please.

If we got Bale they'd take the mick by taking De Gea and getting us to pay £60 million or something, and we'd probably do it as well.
 
After a couple of months as "no" I have changed to "yes" - I am hoping our upturn in form and CL prospects (with any luck) will tempt him to stay.
 
I still think the fact valdes is getting splinters in his arse every game is an ulterior motive that DDG is off at the end of the season .

I'd love ddg to stay but if HE WANTS TO JOIN MADRID There's nothing much we can do really with little left on his contract .

Bale , ronaldo or modric would ease the blow in any deal though if im being honest . For how good ddg is I can't help but think that cech is the new van der sar if we want him but I've just got a feeling vv will get the gig .
 
50m-80m??? :lol: You're living in another world if you think Madrid will splash that much on a keeper albeit a very good one in the last year of his contract.
 
C'est Moi Cantona said:
This is very true, if we get anything north of £30 million i'd be surprised, would rather players in exchange....... Modric, or Varane please.

If we got Bale they'd take the mick by taking De Gea and getting us to pay £60 million or something, and we'd probably do it as well.
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And with the weakness of the Euro too it'll probably end up being 30m eurosish at most if we're lucky.
 
I have a suspicion that everything has been worked out already one way or the other hence the talk of us being relaxed about the situation. Regardless of his decision whether to stay or go, I do think he's given assurances that he will sign a contract to ensure that we won't be left in a vulnerable position and in turn we gave him assurances that we wouldn't stand in his way (like Levy with Modric to Chelsea) should he wish to leave. Very much like the Ronaldo situation.
 
Well be lucky to get £30m for him. He isn't going to resign. Madrid would just wait 6 months and get him on a pre contract.
 
ottosec said:
He'll be here for a long time. I don't think his contract situation has anything to do with him wanting to leave or waiting to see if we qualify for CL.

Looks like we're just leaving extensions late these days, none of our other first team players that are out of contract next year have received an offer and there are quite a few more: Smalling, Jones, Young, RVP.
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I hope you're right. Still, I just want to know what the hell do we need to do in order to get that extremely fat long-term contract signed.

Leaving contract extensions late is a major crime in this kind of business IMHO. This is not North American sports in which contract talks usually go on only in the last year before becoming an unrestricted free agent. For the record, I don't see why Smalling, Jones, Young and RVP should be brought in this discussion. Their importance for the team at this time is nowhere near as high as to what DDG brings to us.

And for the record, our Champions League titles only came when we had the best goalkeeper in the world as the last line of defense. I still have nightmares about the way we handled the post-Schmeichel era and I don't want to see a repeat of that because the higher-ups at United are too fecked up mentally to give the man what he wants as long as he stays.
 
Kakeru said:
I hope you're right. Still, I just want to know what the hell do we need to do in order to get that extremely fat long-term contract signed.

Leaving contract extensions late is a major crime in this kind of business IMHO. This is not North American sports in which contract talks usually go on only in the last year before becoming an unrestricted free agent. For the record, I don't see why Smalling, Jones, Young and RVP should be brought in this discussion. Their importance for the team at this time is nowhere near as high as to what DDG brings to us.

And for the record, our Champions League titles only came when we had the best goalkeeper in the world as the last line of defense. I still have nightmares about the way we handled the post-Schmeichel era and I don't want to see a repeat of that because the higher-ups at United are too fecked up mentally to give the man what he wants as long as he stays.
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It might not be purely financial though. Last year we didn't extend his deal because he wasn't certain about the direction the club was heading in, the year before he still had 3 years on his deal and a new manager has just joined so conditions of his deal wouldn't have been negotiated in these circumstances. Then he's had the best season of his career so far in which he's arguably been the most in-form goalkeeper in the world, meanwhile the biggest club in his home country have had plenty of issues with their first choice goalkeeper and might be looking for a new one, and with Galactico policy in place De Gea absolutely fits the bill. It's difficult for us to compete with Real Madrid, they'll match whatever we can pay him and on top of that they have a much better team.
 
The contract will get settled in the summer, I have no doubts.

I think he is just waiting to see if we get the CL, he probably doesn't want the best years of his career to be wasted in a bum team. We are clearly on the rise though, and I am sure he will be happy to stay.
 
Adam-Utd said:
The contract will get settled in the summer, I have no doubts.

I think he is just waiting to see if we get the CL, he probably doesn't want the best years of his career to be wasted in a bum team. We are clearly on the rise though, and I am sure he will be happy to stay.
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I agree with this, but the one thing that really makes me doubt myself is the Valdes signing. However, then I think that Valdes would probably have got a few starts this season, if the club knew that DDG was on the move.

You'd like to think that Woodward knows the value of DDG - as well as his marketability - and will have this situation under control.
 
Sarni said:
...meanwhile the biggest club in his home country have had plenty of issues with their first choice goalkeeper and might be looking for a new one
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Have they fully tried Keylor Navas while genuinely disregarding Casillas' political power though? I saw the guy play at the World Cup and he had all the attributes to be a beast in goals. For someone who was transfered for 10M euros after those performances, he has everything to be a good bargain for them.
 
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