De Gea refused to sign a contract extension for much better money, he could have done what Suarez did and still left. United get a decent fee ala Liverpool and De Gea gets his move.
The business should have been concluded during the Summer then. Madrid either cough up or he signs a new contract. Madrid canât be faulted for driving a bargain, Utd can be faulted for leaving themselves exposed to this sorry ending.
Ffs, united could neither force Madrid to pay the fee they wanted or make De Gea sign a new contract, bizarre logic har.
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So, losing him for nothing now & sticking it to Madrid is all peaches & roses?
Come on, pal.
Itâs hard to know what goes on behind the scenes in these transfer deals / contract negotiations. I wouldnât be surprised if Liverpool had some sort of agreement with Suarez that he could leave if they didnât win the league the following year or maybe he was leaving anyway. They seemed to put up much less resistance to Barcelonaâs advances when they came knocking a year later.
Maybe United persuaded De Gea to do something similar and backed out or got shafted by Real when the time came.
Time will tell
Obviously itâs not, but people putting the blame squarely at Unitedâs door is crazy.
Madrid are left with Navas who they tried to bulldoze out of the club and a potential future signing who must be really feeling valued that Madrid did everything in their power to get him as cheap as possible to the point that the deal didnât go through.
United did the same with Ronaldo, basically looked for him to stay one more season.
The Times of London reported today that a delegation of senior players recently went to Van Gaal to complain about his treatment of Rafael before selling him and the regimented/boring training routine and playing style.
How did they work out for them? And who were they?
Just for clarity, this happened âseveral weeks agoâ.
Allegedly.
And who were the players?
Allow me to check my sources. âŚ
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Louis announcing today that he lashed out that ÂŁ36 million (and add onâs) on that teenager Martial as a present for his successor.
The only names Iâve heard are Valdes and Rojo.
Yet the article clearly states âas players reared under sir Alex find the methods stiflingâ. FFS sakes, the players from the Fergie era are the happiest under LVG. Young, Smalling, roo, sideshow Bob, all getting gametime beyond their wildest dreams.
This is some pathetic clickbait rehashed 2 days before a Liverpool match. Nothing to see here.
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And nodded at Giggs when he said âsuccessorâ.
I was really trying to figure out who would be in a senior players group at Utd at this point and couldnât think of anyone outside of Rooney.
FFS sakes, the article sounds better with âgroup of senior playersâ.
âA band of sweaty spicsâ makes it sound like an episode of Narcos.
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United never replaced the mad gang that was Carlos, the Korean fella, Evra and some other chap whose name I canât remember, jaysus they looked like savage crack.
Valencia was involved. Contract talks set to begin with de gea.