What? Get a grip man.
He's clearly off to Madrid, so don't tell me how I should feel about it.
De Gea Contract Situation
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He's clearly off to Madrid, so don't tell me how I should feel about it.
15-20m IMO.
He did that 4 years ago. And why do you care for Atletico anyway?
You honestly believe he asked for a 30m release clause? Deary me.
What would be the point? If he wants to leave he can leave, there's no need to sign a new deal at all.
Cheeky bid for Neuer or better still, a quiet word with his agent - see if he likes the idea of £200k week?
Because if Madrid pull out or go for someone else, he then now has a new 200kpw contract while also having the 30mil Euro release clause for when Madrid, Barca or whoever surely come in for him at a later date.
I was initially thinking along the same lines but yeah, it just doesn't seem right. I wouldn't mind us making him honour the last year of his contract though - ala Lewa at Dortmund. Making him rot in the reserves just seems a tad bit unprofessional and churlish given that he has done absolutely nothing wrong, even if he goes on to reject our contract offer and wants to leave for Real. It can be construed as him being disloyal but then so are most footballers these days and they are well within their rights to ask for a transfer it they desire so.
I get that we stuck through with him when he was struggling and placed our faith in him etc (what most young players deserve basically) but he has repaid/been repaying us with 2 great seasons where he was/is hands down the best player at the club (no mean feat for a goalie). Ultimately though, if he were to leave, I'd rather he left in an amicable fashion and we got another season out of him or 20-25 m pounds for him.
Why so little?!
We have got players in there final years who don't have the status of De Gea and paid more - no way RM get DDG for as much as we might be getting Gungogan for.
They can have him for Bale and £40m.
The writing was on the wall the moment Valdes signed, as many rightly pointed out at the time.
No way was he signing on to be a long term #2.
No way was he signing on to be a long term #2.
It makes no sense at all. What player signs a new contract who wants to leave? Has that ever happened?
And you're calling him a twat because of this obviously made up paper bollocks. Nice.
Wishful thinking.
It's AS for feck sake. Real Madrid controlled and have no sources in England at all. Probably about on a par with the fecking Mirror.
Seriously, just read that drivel, they actually think he has a release clause NOW?
fecking idiot hacks with no insight. Forget being on par with the Mirror, they make CaughtOffside contributors look itk.
Seriously, just read that drivel, they actually think he has a release clause NOW?
fecking idiot hacks with no insight. Forget being on par with the Mirror, they make CaughtOffside contributors look itk.
Keepers don't cost that much. Neuer for example went for that, despite he was arguably the best in the world back then (or the best after Casillas).
De Gea's transfer from Atletico is the third most expensive transfer for a keeper in history of football (with Neuer the second and Buffon on first place> If he had a long contract I would guess that we would have got 40-50m from him, but as it is, would be very surprised if we get more than 20m.
You don't know its made up, and even if it IS made up, he quite clearly wants to leave.
Jesus freaking christ.
Hah.. I think the point is pretty obvious..
It is worse than stock exchange. Everything based on speculation.
If he currently had a release clause of 18m euros like those morons at AS claim we'd have 10 clubs banging down the door and Mendes would be flying off to 5 different countries getting contract offers. Such idiots.With the thing that caused the stock to plummet something that has been pretty obvious for a while. Was clear we would have offered de Gea a good contract ages ago.
It's not about him doing anything wrong. It's about what's best for Manchester United.
Lindegaard has done absolutely nothing wrong, but he hasn't played a game this season because we have options ahead of him that are better for the club.
If De Gea decides he wants to leave the club, fine. We do not however have to let him go strengthen a rival a year earlier than we have to.
Get in a world class prospect keeper, who is committed to Manchester United. The new guy plays next season because that is in the best long term interests of the club and De Gea has the same season as Lindegaard has just had.
Real can either go look elsewhere for a keeper of his calibre (and blow an outrageous sum of money on Neuer or Courtois that could otherwise be spent elsewhere) or they make do with a lesser option for 12 months. Thus, one of our major European rivals is weakened for 12 months.
Then what sources are reliable at this point of the season?.The article talks about a clause in the new contract,the one that he is supposed to sign now
But you would probably welcome Ronaldo back in a heartbeat.
Earlier you you threw your toys out of the pram about Depay agreeing to join Liverpool based on a Mirror story. Now you're calling De Gea a twat based on an AS story. Wise up.
That's vindictive, self defeating and not at all pragmatic...
If it does transpire that he doesn't want to renew, it would be better for us to keep him on, bring in a new keeper and slowly edge De Gea out of the picture over his last season here.
At the end of the day, Real aren't mugs. They won't offer more than £25m or so with him in the last year of his contract. Small change given our projected revenues next season.
Sky sources, BBC sources, maybe a couple of broadsheet journos. But really, when it comes to United you can't trust any of them because, as we saw with Herrera, we now just outright lie about our transfer dealings when asked.
Mendes will be leaking bullshit out left right and centre for his own ends, but AS don't even have a line on him.
At the end of the day, Real aren't mugs. They won't offer more than £25m or so with him in the last year of his contract. Small change given our projected revenues next season.
Sky sources, BBC sources, maybe a couple of broadsheet journos. But really, when it comes to United you can't trust any of them because, as we saw with Herrera, we now just outright lie about our transfer dealings when asked.
Mendes will be leaking bullshit out left right and centre for his own ends, but AS don't even have a line on him.
We only have these articles to go on, they maybe true, they may not be true but they are all we have to go on and thats the way its always been.
This could be made up but its more plausible than the head in the sand "he's just waiting to see if we get Top 4, everything is good" people.
He is gonzo, writing on the wall every time those cnuts want one of our players.
There are a couple of reasons why that sort of thing is never done.
1. Financial aspect... alright that doesn't affect us as much but 20M is still a chunk of money
2. Would easily impact future transfers. Who'd sign for a club where you could be treated like that?
It will be as much as our fault for letting his contract come within a year of it ending. The ball is firmly in his court. We'd be lucky to get 25 mill for him, if he fancies going home, then we clearly have to sell asap
He's gone 
I think he's off too. I just don't see the need to call him a twat based on a story you yourself admit might not be true.
If you want to abuse him for simply wanting to leave that's another story, fair enough but I don't agree with that. I wouldn't hold it against him if he wanted to leave. It's his hometown, his Mrs lives there, he'd quickly move up the pecking order for the NT, and he'd be competing for the UCL every year. Seems like a logical move to me.
Its not him wanting to leave, i have already said we should let him go if he wants to leave. Whats pissed me off is the 30 million Euros release clause, i mean surely you can see, IF ITS TRUE, what a cnutish move that is right?
I do wonder if the club took this scenario into consideration when we signed him. I mean, the whole point of signing a young, talented keeper is to reap the rewards if he does come good and get many years of service. De Gea is 24 and already wants to feck off. It just feels like we haven't really gained that much for a really smart signing from SAF.
Ermm, yeah, if it's true. Sure.
I try not to make judgements on people based on rumours though, especially not from gutterpress like AS, a mouthpiece for the team trying to buy him. The entire time he's been here he's conducted himself brilliantly, so I'll judge him on that.
Check my post history, i haven't said a bad thing against DeGea since he's been here. I have also said numerous times to let him leave if he wants to go and we will just move on from this.
Its just the release clause thing has really annoyed me, its disrespectful to a club as big as us, IF ITS TRUE.
Players who are committed to signing for Manchester United.
If the club thinks that losing 20m from transfer (and 4m or so in wages) is better than selling De Gea, then fine, that is what we will do. We will look a bit like twats, other top talented players will think twice before they'll come here, De Gea will lose a year of his career and msot likely the next EUROs, and no idea how will our other players take this. Probably not that well.
But for sure, if the club thinks that that is the best solution, then they'll do it. Personally, I think that only a bitter club with small mentality would behave like that.
IMO there are 2 options (if De Gea doesn't sign):
- sell him (for as much money as possible)
- don't sell him cause we think that his contribution is better than getting 20-25m from him.
That is rationality. And lucky for us, those who are in charge of the club (Ed and co) seems quite rational.
Ronaldo gave us way more glory and good times than De Gea. He was also a United player for 6 seasons.
Was is vindictive, self defeating and non pragmatic to leave Lindegaard out of the squad all season?
I'm not saying that we be nasty to the guy. If he truly needs to return to Madrid then I've already said we can sell him to Aletico. Hell they could even afford the £18million.
No, we just had 2 better keepers. If he was better than them, he would have played.
After all, he was looking for a new club in the summer (with our blessing) but no-one wanted him.
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