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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If he decided to leave, time to get as much money as we can and prepare a bid for LLoris or Cech. Or alternatively looking for one of their players, like Varane.
 
Damn, everyone want to suck Real Madrid's cock, why footballers never get tired of this shit?I really hope Barca dominate Spain league for a long time now.
Anyway if De Gea wants to leave, I would take Varane plus 10m.
 
The worst part of it all is IF he does leave, we won't even get £80m or something decent like we did with Ronaldo, he is going to walk away for like £15 at the worst. Football really can be a bitch sometimes but I suppose what goes around comes around eventually. Let's tap the balls off of Bale and get him back on a free too.
 
Adam-Utd said:
The worst part of it all is IF he does leave, we won't even get £80m or something decent like we did with Ronaldo, he is going to walk away for like £15 at the worst. Football really can be a bitch sometimes but I suppose what goes around comes around eventually. Let's tap the balls off of Bale and get him back on a free too.
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Bale has a contract until 2019, so you'll be waiting a while on that one. I think £15m is a little low for De Gea, but it would probably be a surprise if we get much more than £25m for him this summer. On the face of it, that's pretty disappointing, but United are not in desperate need of money and seem to have a replacement already lined up in Valdes.
 
If he leaves then we have to go for Cech, have a feeling he would be what VDS was, a great, experienced goalkeeper who rarely, if ever, makes mistakes, and someone who could play for a years to come. But I really hope for De Gea to stay, would be so sad to see him go since he's become top keeper.
 
The only thing that's happened is LVG saying we've offered him a big contract, right?

Surely nobody thought we'd not done this?

Either he's waiting to make sure we qualify for CL, or he's leaving. I'm hopeful it's the former, but nothing has changed to warrant the gloom in here.
 
MDFC Manager said:
That tells us nothing that we haven't deduced ourselves. He'll make a decision, one way or the other, but only at the end of the season.
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It's more than that really. Van Gaal is a practical man. His words tells me that we have played all our cards and there is nothing left from our end. And there seemed to be a slight tinge of frustration at our helplessness.

Honestly, this is taking far too much time. Thank God we are not in a title race or otherwise this would have surely been a distraction. If he wants to leave he should do so now or else sign up for the long term.

I love the player but I will be honest. I have lost a bit of respect for him.
 
Subho611 said:
It's more than that really. Van Gaal is a practical man. His words tells me that we have played all our cards and there is nothing left from our end. And there seemed to be a slight tinge of frustration at our helplessness.

Honestly, this is taking far too much time. Thank God we are not in a title race or otherwise this would have surely been a distraction. If he wants to leave he should do so now or else sign up for the long term.

I love the player but I will be honest. I have lost a bit of respect for him.
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Why?
 
Rado_N said:
The only thing that's happened is LVG saying we've offered him a big contract, right?

Surely nobody thought we'd not done this?

Either he's waiting to make sure we qualify for CL, or he's leaving. I'm hopeful it's the former, but nothing has changed to warrant the gloom in here.
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Yeah exactly, if LVG hadn't answered any questions about it nobody would be thinking otherwise.

He has clearly ALLOWED or asked for this question to be said though, he is obviously gettting a little impatient/worried it's taking a while and he hasn't committed. It's a mind game to force a bit of movement in DDG's camp.
 
Will be heartbroken if he leaves, easily my favourite player in the squad.

A less rational part of me wants us to call Simeone and offer them DDG on a cut-price deal out of spite.
 
Why are a select few getting so dramatic? These quotes are just mere confirmation of a situation we're already aware of. De Gea hasn't been disruptive and by all accounts appears to have behaved with due professionalism.

Perhaps he's waiting for Champions League confirmation, perhaps he just wants the move back home to another fantastic club nearer his long term girlfriend. I'm leaning towards the latter and there is no real issue with that. Although I'm sure the oddballs on the internet will take it as some sort of personal attack.

This is clever stuff from Van Gaal, though. He's made it clear that we've done all we can, putting the ball in David's court. A little pressure, if you will.
 
Varun said:
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I know I shouldn't be emotional with these things but there was this feeling that De Gea had something special with the club. I expected him to be a bit more passionate about renewing with us and playing for us. The calculated way in which he has played this, although complete understandable, took a bit of my respect away. Maybe I expected too much.
 
If I was a world-class player playing in Spain and United came in for me I'm sure that would be hard to turn down as well. There's no place like home! If he does go, I hope he does really well. Class footballer. Will Valdes be able to step up?
 
I'm hoping he fecks up in his first game and then is replaced by Saint Iker until the end of time.
 
Adam-Utd said:
The worst part of it all is IF he does leave, we won't even get £80m or something decent like we did with Ronaldo, he is going to walk away for like £15 at the worst. Football really can be a bitch sometimes but I suppose what goes around comes around eventually. Let's tap the balls off of Bale and get him back on a free too.
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DDG isnt worth 80 mill,not even close.
 
Subho611 said:
I know I shouldn't be emotional with these things but there was this feeling that De Gea had something special with the club. I expected him to be a bit more passionate about renewing with us and playing for us. The calculated way in which he has played this, although complete understandable, took a bit of my respect away. Maybe I expected too much.
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He's just a bloke with a job at the end of the day though. He must miss home.
 
It's funny seeing people say we won't get more than £20 for De Gea, then citing Neur [who was only up and coming] as an example. The way some of you undervalue our players is beyond absurd. New contract or not, If Madrid want De Gea [and I suspect they do] then they'll have to pay top dollar for him. The notion that Manchester United will let him leave for peanuts is both absurd and insulting to the club and the player. De Gea is one of the best GKs in the world, he's not particularly itching to leave publicly, United are financially loaded, why do people think we'll just take £15m for him? Really? De Gea may want to move to Madrid, but he's not under obligation to do it, if they don't move for him and pay top money now, what makes people think he won't then sign a new contract and get on with it? Such a one way and shortsighted way of looking at things.
 
legball said:
It's funny seeing people say we won't get more than £20 for De Gea, then citing Neur [who was only up and coming] as an example. The way some of you undervalue our players is beyond absurd. New contract or not, If Madrid want De Gea [and I suspect they do] then they'll have to pay top dollar for him. The notion that Manchester United will let him leave for peanuts is both absurd and insulting to the club and the player. De Gea is one of the best GKs in the world, he's not particularly itching to leave publicly, United are financially loaded, why do people think we'll just take £15m for him? Really? De Gea may want to move to Madrid, but he's not under obligation to do it, if they don't move for him and pay top money now, what makes people think he won't then sign a new contract and get on with it? Such a one way and shortsighted way of looking at things.
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So, how much will we get for a goalkeeper with just a year on his contract who, let's say so for the sake of argumentation, wants to join the club that will come in for him?

I'm not even going into 'we've been shit at selling players' thing.
 
legball said:
It's funny seeing people say we won't get more than £20 for De Gea, then citing Neur [who was only up and coming] as an example. The way some of you undervalue our players is beyond absurd. New contract or not, If Madrid want De Gea [and I suspect they do] then they'll have to pay top dollar for him. The notion that Manchester United will let him leave for peanuts is both absurd and insulting to the club and the player. De Gea is one of the best GKs in the world, he's not particularly itching to leave publicly, United are financially loaded, why do people think we'll just take £15m for him? Really? De Gea may want to move to Madrid, but he's not under obligation to do it, if they don't move for him and pay top money now, what makes people think he won't then sign a new contract and get on with it? Such a one way and shortsighted way of looking at things.
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It's what happens when you have a year left on your contract. Countless of examples of this in the past. You either sell him or keep an unhappy player for a season and let him go for nothing at the end. Thinking he'll sign a contract after we deny him his desired move is wishful thinking to say the least.
 
hopefully he's waiting for the champion's league football anyway he's taking too much time so he clearly hesitates and that's not good. Maybe we can convince him like we did with Rooney even though the situation is different.

these trophyless seasons must stop or we will lose another players

However no player is bigger than the club after all, if he really wants to leave I'd make a deal like we did with Ronaldo, one more year and then he can leave. I'd convince him to sign the extension on massive fee so Real would need to splash the money next year.

And surely we should use him as counter deal - Isco, Bale, Varane
 
Well feck, these quotes from Van Gaal don't sound promising at all. Still holding out some hope he's waiting to confirm Champions League qualification.
 
The main concern from LVG words is that he says we made the offer a long time ago. Surely if he wanted to stay he would have signed by now...

Well, I guess we'll find out soon enough. Would be really disappointing to see him go, but if he doesn't want to be here anymore, there is nothing we can do.
 
kps88 said:
It's what happens when you have a year left on your contract. Countless of examples of this in the past. You either sell him or keep an unhappy player for a season and let him go for nothing at the end. Thinking he'll sign a contract after we deny him his desired move is wishful thinking to say the least.
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Except I have never said anything about denying him anything. I am saying, IF Madrid doesn't offer what United want, do you think he has any obligation to "wait" for Madrid? My answer is, he doesn't. He's a professional, and paying what his current employers wants can be a show that they value him, he's not desperate to leave even though he might want to. £24 for RVP, reporting £22 for Gundogan and you think the second best GK in the world will go for peanuts? Think again.
 
LVG playing his last card it looks like by making it public that the ball is in DDG's court now. It might put a bit of pressure on him one way or the other, but if he's not going to sign we have to have a date in mind where we go "lets get the best price we can" and cut our losses.

This time we must ensure we replace him adequately.
 
Kostur said:
So, how much will we get for a goalkeeper with just a year on his contract who, let's say so for the sake of argumentation, wants to join the club that will come in for him?

I'm not even going into 'we've been shit at selling players' thing.
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We've been shit at selling players we did NOT want to keep. De Gea is either the 2nd or 3rd best GK in the world, that status will reflect in his transfer fee, one year contract or not.
 
legball said:
Except I have never said anything about denying him anything. I am saying, IF Madrid doesn't offer what United want, do you think he has any obligation to "wait" for Madrid? My answer is, he doesn't. He's a professional, and paying what his current employers wants can be a show that they value him, he's not desperate to leave even though he might want to. £24 for RVP, reporting £22 for Gundogan and you think the second best GK in the world will go for peanuts? Think again.
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Assuming he wants to leave and Madrid want to buy him, they will offer what we want because our asking price will take into account his desire to leave and his contract situation. What do you think we should sell him for?
 
kps88 said:
It's what happens when you have a year left on your contract. Countless of examples of this in the past. You either sell him or keep an unhappy player for a season and let him go for nothing at the end. Thinking he'll sign a contract after we deny him his desired move is wishful thinking to say the least.
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Yep, if De Gea really wants to leave then this is almost exactly like the Lewandowski situation in 2013. Even though he is one the best strikers in the world, he had just one year remaining on his contract. Dortmund had the choice to either sell him for €25-30 million or let him leave on a Bosman in 2014. They chose the latter out of hubris maybe ? But retrospectively it would've made more sense to cut bait since he's not part of you medium term plans, so get the cash in and find a good replacement with the improved transfer budget. In a parallel situation, Bayern made the better choice IMO by selling Kroos for a good fee because a psychologically unsettled player may not perform at his highest level anyway.

Footballers are professionals with rather short shelf lives, and are entitled to their own opinions and career choices. Yet supporters somehow hold an idealistic view when it comes to their own club, some even begrudge players who leave. eg. Gentleman above hoping De Gea fecks up and is replaced by Casillas. Seems rather petty to be honest.
 
Him leaving would be two steps back in terms of rebuilding. Real are a pain, they see their players as shiny new toys and treat them as such. He will never be loved at Madrid like he is loved here, even Ronaldo can tell him that.
 
De Gea is in the box seat. He might be happy to stay another year and leave on a free next year or if he is happy to stay at United, they will make him one of the highest paid if not the highest paid player at the club, whether he signs a new contract this or the next summer. He has simply been consistently United's best player for the past 2 or 3 seasons.
 
Hopefully it's just down to Champions League football. Fergie needs to have a word and get him to sign on with promise he can go down the line if he really wants to.
 
JoaquinJoaquin said:
Apparently removed Man Utd from his bio on Twitter I was reading earlier. Definitely off if true.
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De Gea never had Man Utd on his twitter bio. A better tracker is the jugador del @manchesterunited header on his Instagram profile.
 
RonaldoVII said:
Hopefully it's just down to Champions League football. Fergie needs to have a word and get him to sign on with promise he can go down the line if he really wants to.
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What is the point of that? It might even be destabilizing if there are doubts over his commitments to the football club.
 
royboy16 said:
DDG isnt worth 80 mill,not even close.
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He is arguably worth that to us. The amount of points he has saved us alone. His kicking ability will be hard to replace too. The fact is we won't get another player of his calibre for years, and not cheaply either. He is just as important or even more important than Di Maria, so if he is worth £60m let's make Madrid pay too.
 
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