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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Sarni said:
I think it's quite clear he doesn't want to be here, otherwise he'd have signed by now rather than delay it. Whether he moves to Real Madrid this Summer or next is not important to me, I'd hope we'd replace him sooner rather than later.

If he moves to Real Madrid I hope he'll find himself on the bench while Casillas is number one. Nothing against him really but that'd be sort of funny.
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The Hazard situation draws quite a contrast. There you have another young player who is one of the best in the world in their position - the manager has come out saying he wants to be there, and the player has come out saying the same. No fuss, no rumours etc.
Note that Hazard signed a new 5.5-year deal in February, so he would/could have been in a similar sort of situation to De Gea had he not done so (I am not sure exactly when his old contract was due to run out, admittedly) but the situations have been so markedly different.

It does give the impression that even if De Gea does stay, his loyalty is going to be in question a bit...
 
Walrus said:
The Hazard situation draws quite a contrast. There you have another young player who is one of the best in the world in their position - the manager has come out saying he wants to be there, and the player has come out saying the same. No fuss, no rumours etc.
Note that Hazard signed a new 5.5-year deal in February, so he would/could have been in a similar sort of situation to De Gea had he not done so (I am not sure exactly when his old contract was due to run out, admittedly) but the situations have been so markedly different.

It does give the impression that even if De Gea does stay, his loyalty is going to be in question a bit...
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I don't see how a player could stay quiet and not reassure supporters about his commitment to the club in the middle of contract negotations when his manager has said two or three times that the offer's been on the table for a while, unless he was hoping for a move away. I know it's happened before and ended up with extention being signed but deep underneath I think it was mostly based around the same fact, i.e. player wanting out but not getting the move in the end.
 
Walrus said:
The Hazard situation draws quite a contrast. There you have another young player who is one of the best in the world in their position - the manager has come out saying he wants to be there, and the player has come out saying the same. No fuss, no rumours etc.
Note that Hazard signed a new 5.5-year deal in February, so he would/could have been in a similar sort of situation to De Gea had he not done so (I am not sure exactly when his old contract was due to run out, admittedly) but the situations have been so markedly different.

It does give the impression that even if De Gea does stay, his loyalty is going to be in question a bit...
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Hazard is not Spanish and doesn't have his roots in Madrid. Also, Real don't need him right now as they have Bale and Ronaldo. Completely different scenarios.
 
Subho611 said:
Hazard is not Spanish and doesn't have his roots in Madrid. Also, Real don't need him right now as they have Bale and Ronaldo. Completely different scenarios.
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When has that ever stopped them?
Besides, Bale is not guaranteed to stick around, and Hazard would have been one of the relatively few players capable of replacing him.

You are right though, they are completely different scenarios -
One has a player who has openly expressed loyalty to the club and his desire to stay, and signed a new contract pretty much as soon as it was offered, no fuss at all.
The other is a situation where the manager has openly said that a good value contract has been offered, but the player has not signed, and has not said a word about his intentions.

Again, even if De Gea stays for this summer, I think there will always be some question marks over where his loyalty and ambition lies due to this episode.
 
Dunno what all the fuss is about. Van Gaal said he hasn't signed yet...yet! he seems pretty cool about things and probably knows DDG is just waiting for CL qualification.
 
Carl said:
Has he? Had cock ups against City and Liverpool that fortunately didn't cost us any points but that's it. Nothing he could have done about any of the goals yesterday.
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He also mad a clanger vs Villa.

Thought he left his way too much space on his near post for the 3rd goal. He also was slow coming out at times.

He's not been as bad as the other poster made out but he's not been in good form either of late.
 
Zero faith he is staying.

LvG talking about us offering him a lot of money is to try and put pressure on him to stay and sign the contract.

Don't understand why the majority of the caf seem to be so optimistic that he's staying!
 
If he's demanding a release clause with the intention of going to Madrid next season we should just sell him this summer and move on.

The longer this goes on the more indifferent I'm becoming towards him. Seems a slightly shitty thing to do to be running his contract down into the last year where we will get less money for him, effectively backing us into a corner until he gets what he wants. I think it'd be drawing a lot more criticism of it was Rooney or another player. He was one of my favourites but if he wants to go we should let him.
 
If he doesnt want to stay we should of course sell him this summer.

The day he leaves I wont care about him. Tbh I'll be laughing if he'll be 2nd choice to Casillas at the start.
 
The thing is, why does he have to wait for CL qualification to sign his contract if that's what is his initial intention? Can't he see that there's an exciting future lying ahead for the club, we could be challenging for the title next season and he can be a part of all of that with his Spanish buddies?

I just think he's as good as gone really
 
SATA said:
The thing is, why does he have to wait for CL qualification to sign his contract if that's what is his initial intention? Can't he see that there's an exciting future lying ahead for the club, we could be challenging for the title next season and he can be a part of all of that with his Spanish buddies?

I just think he's as good as gone really
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Because he can hardly write into the contract that if we fail to get CL then I'm off when there is only 4 games remaining.
 
Varun said:
Great as he is, if we can replace him with Lloris or Leno, we'l be fine. IF he isnt signing, tell Madrid to pay up and take him this year, no freebies next year.
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I would hate to lose him, but I also feel there wouldn't be a massive drop-off in quality or overall team performance to go with another top keeper like Cech or Lloris. Not nearly as much difference as you might get with a different striker.
 
Bwuk said:
Zero faith he is staying.

LvG talking about us offering him a lot of money is to try and put pressure on him to stay and sign the contract.

Don't understand why the majority of the caf seem to be so optimistic that he's staying!
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This is what I don't get. It's almost some kind of blind loyalty to some extent. I mentioned previously if this was Aguero at City or Hazard at Chelsea everyone would be saying they're going, I imagine the poll at the top would be the other way round at least, somehow because it's a United player they're going to stay.

If you look at it realistically from de Gea's point of view it's just a job, he's not a United fan and he probably doesn't think he particularly owes us anything now. People mention how we stuck by him etc during tough times but he's pretty much carried us for 2 seasons and you couldn't actually blame the guy for being a bit pissed off with it all. He may well be happy but I still think all the signs suggest he wants to go, if he wanted to stay then he'd of said something by now or someone at the club would...the silence speaks volumes. Equally the Valdes signing seems a bit off really, he's hardly a Number 2.

I'd be disappointed if he left because he is our best player but it always seemed like it would happen. The desperation to criticise him for the stuff yesterday seems a bit odd though. I wouldn't really blame him for any of the goals....I'd imagine if he was staying and had signed a contract before the game not many people would be critical of them.
 
I also don't understand why I feel confident about him staying when everything points towards him leaving, I honestly don't. But I think he'll stay!
 
Oggmonster said:
This is what I don't get. It's almost some kind of blind loyalty to some extent. I mentioned previously if this was Aguero at City or Hazard at Chelsea everyone would be saying they're going, I imagine the poll at the top would be the other way round at least, somehow because it's a United player they're going to stay.
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There's been a big shift since Friday. I think now more people probably think he's off (or wants to leave), than there is who think he'll stay, just that they've not voted or changed their vote on the poll.
 
Damien said:
There's been a big shift since Friday. I think now more people probably think he's off (or wants to leave), than there is who think he'll stay, just that they've not voted or changed their vote on the poll.
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yeah that's true it doesn't factor in everyone and some people won't bother changing it. It is closer than I remember looking at it to be fair, was at the high 60s last week from what I can recall.
 
Might be worth just resetting the poll completely so that only those who are "active" on it will have their votes registered.
 
Oggmonster said:
This is what I don't get. It's almost some kind of blind loyalty to some extent. I mentioned previously if this was Aguero at City or Hazard at Chelsea everyone would be saying they're going, I imagine the poll at the top would be the other way round at least, somehow because it's a United player they're going to stay.

If you look at it realistically from de Gea's point of view it's just a job, he's not a United fan and he probably doesn't think he particularly owes us anything now. People mention how we stuck by him etc during tough times but he's pretty much carried us for 2 seasons and you couldn't actually blame the guy for being a bit pissed off with it all. He may well be happy but I still think all the signs suggest he wants to go, if he wanted to stay then he'd of said something by now or someone at the club would...the silence speaks volumes. Equally the Valdes signing seems a bit off really, he's hardly a Number 2.

I'd be disappointed if he left because he is our best player but it always seemed like it would happen. The desperation to criticise him for the stuff yesterday seems a bit odd though. I wouldn't really blame him for any of the goals....I'd imagine if he was staying and had signed a contract before the game not many people would be critical of them.
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Some of us can't wrap our heads around the idea that anybody would ever want to leave Utd, I know I wouldn't if I was in the squad they would have to cart me out kicking and screaming if they wanted to get rid of me.

More than that it's like when a new player is touted as coming to Utd I don't believe it until the ink is dry on the paper. Transfer speculation is just that and I don't get too wound up about it unless we hear that a player wants to leave from the horses mouth as with CR7.
 
Why do people want him to sign a new contract when its plainly obvious he doesn't want to be here?
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Because signing a new contract makes it likely he'll stay here longer and/or we'll earn more money when he does leave. It's clearly in our interest that he signs a new contract. I don't think he will fwiw.
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If he wants to go, just let him go. The last thing we want is a sulking keeper, our defence is bad enough as it is.
 
I have finally given up on De Gea. He has been playing in the last couple of games like he doesn't care anymore. He know he is going to Real Madrid.
What surprises me is how fecking stupid he is. Posting that "Proud to be a red" tweet a couple of weeks ago when he already knew he wasn't going to be a red for a very long time.

I truly hate him as a person.
 
Pentame said:
I have finally given up on De Gea. He had been playing in the last couple of games like he doesn't care anymore. He know he is going to Real Madrid.
What surprises me is how fecking stupid he is. Posting that "Proud to be a red" tweet a couple of weeks ago when he already knew he wasn't going to be a red for a very long time.

I truly hate him as a person.
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:lol:
 
Pentame said:
I have finally given up on De Gea. He had been playing in the last couple of games like he doesn't care anymore. He know he is going to Real Madrid.
What surprises me is how fecking stupid he is. Posting that "Proud to be a red" tweet a couple of weeks ago when he already knew he wasn't going to be a red for a very long time.

I truly hate him as a person.
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I don´t think that a player suddenly plays bad on purpose. Surely he is very proud of playing at United, besides we are still in april, everything can change in a month
 
Even if he doesn't leave this summer, he'll be gone by next summer. It's inevitable that he'll go to Madrid sooner than later, so there's not much worth getting your hopes up.

If De Gea really was committed to United then he would have extended his contract a long time ago.

I think we just need to be realistic here. This is Real Madrid we're talking about.
 
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RetroStu said:
i never mentioned signing a new contract, he still has a year left don't forget.
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Yeah you did. You said why do people want him to sign a new contract. If he signs a new contract then it's good news, as per the reasons I gave above. More money when he leaves and/or he's in no rush to leave. Him signing a new contract certainly doesn't mean he'll spend next season sulking.

Anyway, like I said, I don't think he will sign a contract. I think he does want to leave and not signing a new contract makes that easier for him.
 
Pentame said:
I have finally given up on De Gea. He has been playing in the last couple of games like he doesn't care anymore. He know he is going to Real Madrid.
What surprises me is how fecking stupid he is. Posting that "Proud to be a red" tweet a couple of weeks ago when he already knew he wasn't going to be a red for a very long time.

I truly hate him as a person.
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Is this RAWK? :lol::lol::lol:

DDG shirt burining next?
 
I hate these "will he-won't he" transfer sagas. If he really wants to go to Real, we should get a deal done now and forego the endless media speculation that will fill the back pages this summer. United need a number of players and involvement in protracted negotiations with De Gea might get in the way of our dealings elsewhere.
 
Pentame said:
I have finally given up on De Gea. He has been playing in the last couple of games like he doesn't care anymore. He know he is going to Real Madrid.
What surprises me is how fecking stupid he is. Posting that "Proud to be a red" tweet a couple of weeks ago when he already knew he wasn't going to be a red for a very long time.

I truly hate him as a person.
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:lol:
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Yeah you did. You said why do people want him to sign a new contract. If he signs a new contract then it's good news, as per the reasons I gave above. More money when he leaves and/or he's in no rush to leave. Him signing a new contract certainly doesn't mean he'll spend next season sulking.
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Jesus christ Pogue, yes i mentioned his contract in my initial post, i didn't mention his contract when i said the 'just let him go' post. I was talking about if we decided to keep him for his final year because i don't believe he will sign a new contract.

EDIT. And why would you want him here anyway if he doesn't want to be here, i know i don't.
 
So how much will he go for, I wonder?
 
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