Time for your daily David de Gea update. It’s a a never ending soap opera like Arturo Vidal was last summer. Will he stay at Manchester United, or move to Real Madrid? Nothing is official yet of course, but here’s the latest headlines on the situation.
All the news items surrounding the United #1 has pointed to him exiting out the Old Trafford Door. Well, one story, published 16 days ago gave Manchester a boost regarding the David de Gea transfer saga. That was a piece of good news.
Earlier today, we published another. However, there’s nothing really definitive either ways in today’s developments:
-(Daily Express) Manchester United demand Real Madrid pay a £35 million record fee for David de Gea.
Here’s what the Daily Mail is saying about the current situation (excerpts from an article that went up a couple hours ago):
- Real Madrid are refusing to meet Manchester United’s £20million asking price for David de Gea
- Real will not give United more than £13million given that they can get him for nothing in a year’s time
- The move was considered a done deal a few weeks ago
Here’s the latest from The Telegraph; which was just published a few hours ago.
Manchester United’s pursuit of Sergio Ramos is not only genuine but is designed to ramp up the price the club wants to exact from Real Madrid for David De Gea.
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