De Gea contract talk | Signs new deal

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Think we’re going to suck it up and risk losing him for free next summer.

We don’t want to be concerning ourselves with selling him this summer and then having to spend £60m-£80m on a position we thought we were sorted for when we have fullback, centre back, midfield and wide positions to focus on as it is.

I think it’ll make sense to keep him this summer regardless, attempt to put a strong defence in front of him and fix the team and hopefully that’ll be enough to persuade him to stay on.

If not we can have a year preparing to replace him.
 
Harry190 said:
The Onana stories are leaked to put pressure on him. Likely to be a favour from a journalist or journalists to move the needle.
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More like he's refused to sign so we'll be selling him this summer. He's had offers all season and they've rejected them (DDG and his team), time to move on.
 
pascell said:
More like he's refused to sign so we'll be selling him this summer. He's had offers all season and they've rejected them (DDG and his team), time to move on.
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I agree with him moving on. As good as he is, he is only a goalkeeper.
 
He was good for us but if he doesn't want to stay let him go. No need to shop for a new keeper, we can go with Henderson and Romero.
 
If he doesn't want to sign, I'd rather we just sold him now. Not for fear of losing him on a free, just because we've seen De Gea without his head in the game and it's not a pretty sight.
 
Keefy18 said:
He's done plenty, but he made a personal choice to refuse contracts put before him and bank on his abilities in return of a better deal.

In the mean time, his abilities have dropped off a cliff the last 12-15 months at least, he's coming off the back of the clubs worst defensive displays since the early 70s, with De Gea a large part of that blame.

The club has missed its minimum target of CL qualification, finances taken a hit now and players shouldn't be rewarded for mediocrity from the preceding season.

That's the risk he took and now has to make a decision. Take the offer on the table or move on. If he's doing what Ander done and running the deal down we need to take a hard stance and basically force him out of the club to make something back on him.
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Complete revisionist nonsense! He’s had a pretty shitty 6 months and still pulled out performances that save our asses (Spurs away).
 
I would prefer him to stay, I believe recent problems are temporary, he has been a fantastic keeper for us.
He will continue being a great keeper for some years to come.

But if he has no intention of signing, I hope we sell this summer, before losing him for free next year.

If he is not staying, the quicker we get the long term replacement playing in the first team the better for our rebuild.
 
Andy_Cole said:
But we’d lose him on a free if we don’t sell?
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It gives us a year to assess Henderson in the PL and we may not need to buy a replacement. Not to mention, we have other areas of the squad we need to spend money on this summer.
 
Just noticed Utd haven’t kept a clean sheet in the last 15 games.

DDG IS wanting £300,000+ per week.

See yer Dave, thanks for the memories.
 
He already tried to leave once...
 
King7Eric said:
It gives us a year to assess Henderson in the PL and we may not need to buy a replacement. Not to mention, we have other areas of the squad we need to spend money on this summer.
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The problem with this is an unsettled De Gea costs us points. Yes we do need to fix our defense, very much so, but it’s unlikely to be entirely fixed in one summer, so there will still be a degree of leakiness. If De Gea continues as he has for the past couple months of the season, then we’re going to continue dropping silly points due to goalkeeping errors.
 
Cloud7 said:
The problem with this is an unsettled De Gea costs us points. Yes we do need to fix our defense, very much so, but it’s unlikely to be entirely fixed in one summer, so there will still be a degree of leakiness. If De Gea continues as he has for the past couple months of the season, then we’re going to continue dropping silly points due to goalkeeping errors.
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If he makes it clear he's not gonna sign a contract and we make it clear that we'd like him to stay for a year then there's no scope for anyone to be unsettled. We could announce it beforehand rather than let speculation run abound, kinda like Arsenal did with the Ramsey situation. If it's clear he's gonna leave, maybe DDG could set his head straight to have one final great season and leave on a happy note.
 
Selling him would be a very good move. His demands if true are outrageous, considering he's failed at the only thing he was good at 'shot-stopping' in the last 15 months.

It's time we stepped into the year 2019 to align with our rivals and sign someone who will improve our distribution and help our defenders with crosses and high balls.
 
De gea is the best shot stopper in the world. However this does cover more simplistic and important aspects of goalkeeping. The lad doesn't come out to grab the ball with his hands in the corner for example.

I also wonder if De gea is going to be one of those keepers that get better with age up until their 40's like VDS, Buffon and others. I don't see it - because he uses flexes and aspects of his game that would be better as he is younger than he is older in my opinion.

If we sell de gea - we are going to let more goals but I like that because we would start addressing the defence to its full imbalances. No more hiding behind de gea's supernatural reflexes.

It's time we maybe consider addressing the whole squads balance than just adding things to our squad whilst assuming we have a good basic level or standard. Our defence needs to be more important than our goalkeeper.

Our goalkeeper has been more important than our defence for far too long.
 
I love DDG, I will be very sad if he left. He is one of the best of all time here. He also carried us during our worst period. He is one of my favourite players with absolutely top class mentality making saves after saves that won us games single handedly. Without him we will be much worse for the last 6 seasons.

Having said that it's the right decision to sell him unless he really want to stay. Otherwise it will create negative consequences within the squad with players not 100% committed to the club and have been thinking of leaving us for so many years already.

Either way DDG deserves our utmost respect for what he has done for the club.
 
Ban said:
What to do, keep a player who doesn't want to stay?
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He wants to stay but doesn't want to be shafted when he is saving us 12-15 points a season, and other clowns are on 400k a week. Don't blame him.
 
Andy_Cole said:
But we’d lose him on a free if we don’t sell?
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Listen the club's got plenty of money to buy players if they want to. Don't you go getting excited about having some money to spend from this sale. If we were trying to buy de gea he'd be 200 million and not a penny less. He needs a bumper contract right now or else we can forget about next season.
 
Snuffkin said:
He wants to stay but doesn't want to be shafted when he is saving us 12-15 points a season, and other clowns are on 400k a week. Don't blame him.
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Well this season his forn has been terrible. He has an offer but he doesn't want to take it.
 
Jericholyte2 said:
Complete revisionist nonsense! He’s had a pretty shitty 6 months and still pulled out performances that save our asses (Spurs away).
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6 Months? :wenger::lol:

So lets pretend his form in the run up to the World Cup shall we to revise history just for you? What about his clanger against Ronaldo, something he has repeated multiple times this season as well, a long range effort where he has made poor decisions and its cost us.

Reality is, he's had at least a poor 15-18 months for club & country and made errors quite frequently overall.

Doesn't mean he isn't capable of good games here n there, he'll still have them but they seem to be less frequent these days.
 
Lot of childish comments in here and plenty of people who are trying to pretend he's now a rubbish keeper. It's so cringe worthy.

If he's turning down record money with us that should tell you what the real issue is. He wants to play at a better standard. He wants to compete.

Don't turn on DDG. Turn on the man who made us get into this position. Edward Woodforahead.
 
Keefy18 said:
6 Months? :wenger::lol:

So lets pretend his form in the run up to the World Cup shall we to revise history just for you? What about his clanger against Ronaldo, something he has repeated multiple times this season as well, a long range effort where he has made poor decisions and its cost us.

Reality is, he's had at least a poor 15-18 months for club & country and made errors quite frequently overall.

Doesn't mean he isn't capable of good games here n there, he'll still have them but they seem to be less frequent these days.
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Jesus, not gonna pretend the blunders haven’t happened, but to say this is more than a year of continuous shit is just ridiculous.





Yeah, what an anchor he’s been to our team. Should have seen it coming Christmas 2017! FFS.

Short term memory of fans is an absolute joke!
 
Paper talk today that PSG will be encouraging De Gea to run down his contract. More than likely nonsense. However, in the event it's true, we need to replace him and put him on the bench. That would be sneaky behaviour from him, and shouldn't be rewarded with a guaranteed starting spot.
 
I read that as well. For a player it's tempting with a signing on fee included.

I doubt De Gea would play that well for us in his last year of winding down his contract. I suspect by Christmas at the latest it would be Romero starting if De Gea doesn't sign a new deal or move this summer
 
redshaw said:
I read that as well. For a player it's tempting with a signing on fee included.

I doubt De Gea would play that well for us in his last year of winding down his contract. I suspect by Christmas at the latest it would be Romero starting if De Gea doesn't sign a new deal or move this summer
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Nah, If it's true, I would tell him he's on the bench from the beginning of the season. His choice, either he goes to whomever will buy him, or he sits on the bench.
He would be taking the piss. Not because he keeps his mouth shut, it doesn't mean he's not being underhanded, probably just sneaky about it.

However, the most important thing is to integrate the new No 1 into the team as soon as possible which is to our benefit. De Gea would be looking out for his interests and should we.
 
If DeGea wants to go sell him. Romero has been class when he has been given the opportunity to play, we don't need a new goalkeeper.
 
Ban said:
Not actively, didn't make a fuss about it.
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He refused to sign a deal, just because he didn't make any noise in the media doesn't mean he didn't actually try to leave. Actually its exactly how he is handling it now as well.

Not that I have anything against him for it, however its clear he wants to he somewhere else so let him go
 
Jazz said:
Nah, If it's true, I would tell him he's on the bench from the beginning of the season. His choice, either he goes to whomever will buy him, or he sits on the bench.
He would be taking the piss. Not because he keeps his mouth shut, it doesn't mean he's not being underhanded, probably just sneaky about it.

However, the most important thing is to integrate the new No 1 into the team as soon as possible which is to our benefit. De Gea would be looking out for his interests and should we.
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That's what I'd do and hope the club and manager would. I'm not 100% Ole would. I can see a situation where Ole has a talk with David, gets assurances from him his minds on doing well in his last year, comes out saying David is world class and done so much for the club. David could really try and mean well but concentration won't be there.
 
redshaw said:
That's what I'd do and hope the club and manager would. I'm not 100% Ole would. I can see a situation where Ole has a talk with David, gets assurances from him his minds on doing well in his last year, comes out saying David is world class and done so much for the club. David could really try and mean well but concentration won't be there.
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We shouldn't take that chance. Plus what's the point of saying we're taking a stand and then allow him to walk all over us? If Ole gambles like this and Dave keeps throwing them in into the back of his own net, then Ole best prepare himself to get sacked.

Ole supposedly studied SAF's methods, and this is what he thinks Sir Alex would do? Put the needs of the club first, not De Gea.
 
Time to sell I think, he's been a fantastic servant and almost singlehandedly won games last season like Spurs away, but we can't offer another Sanchez level contract.

Best all round if he goes, we'd benefit from a more attacking keeper with better distribution. VDS is a fantastic example of an attacking keeper.
 
2 man midfield said:
If he doesn't want to sign, I'd rather we just sold him now. Not for fear of losing him on a free, just because we've seen De Gea without his head in the game and it's not a pretty sight.
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Agree with this. We still need to replace him though.
 
Adnan said:
Selling him would be a very good move. His demands if true are outrageous, considering he's failed at the only thing he was good at 'shot-stopping' in the last 15 months.

It's time we stepped into the year 2019 to align with our rivals and sign someone who will improve our distribution and help our defenders with crosses and high balls.
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What are his demands? More than the 300.000 reported?
 
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