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20th March 2013, 11:27
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Quite dreamy - blue eyes, blond hair, tanned skin
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: The GTA
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Top class already. Saved our asses many times this season. Quietly putting together an impressive run without any mistakes.
Even when the mistakes were happening, we were without Vidic and looked defensively inept as a whole. Only going to get better too. |
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20th March 2013, 12:18
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First Team Sub
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Sanctity, like a cat, abhors filth.
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If I was Bergovic I wouldnt come here, he would end up on the bench, he should go somewhere he will play. But then footballers always seem to have more self belief than me.
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20th March 2013, 18:03
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First Team Regular
Join Date: Feb 2008
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I guess the problem with DDG is latent talent that we will perhaps never enjoy.
I cant believe he will spend his entire career with us. The attractions of La Liga will soon be irresistible, at say aged 27, just when he was entering his peak, with Sure, we'd make a load of money but it would be frustrating as fuck given the technical investments and effort the club had put in. If he fulfils potential (I think he will), sadly he is unlike most of our players in that there will be superior options for him after Manchester United. Still, I would want us to keep him. Though he still makes a few errors, he is already an asset and will only get better. I have no idea why we are being linked to some random goalie from Stoke, though I guess our greatest ever keeper was plucked from the relative obscurity of Brondby! |
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20th March 2013, 18:26
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Casillas is a Spain and Madrid legend, probably only just entering his prime, and will be in Madrid for several more years. de Gea wouldn't sign on as a backup. Just playing devil's advocate. |
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20th March 2013, 18:26
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Not a bad guy (Whale Killer)
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Location: Special One on the Great One: "I don't call him Alex or Sir or Mister. I call him Boss!"
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20th March 2013, 19:30
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First Team Sub
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By the time De Gea even thinks of moving back to Spain, Barca and Real will hopefully already have signed they're replacements for Valdes and Casillas. I'm talking at least five years down the line here. Once those two stay away, I'd be confident of him ending his career at United.
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20th March 2013, 20:11
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First Team Sub
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Sanctity, like a cat, abhors filth.
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Maybe its paranoid, maybe Im just damaged by the Ronaldo experience, but I always think Southern Europeans find it hard in the UK and would rather be at home if the opportunity arose. So I can easily see DDG leaving when he is in his prime.
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20th March 2013, 20:44
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Sign the best you can, nurture them into the best they can be and worry about everything else later. |
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22nd March 2013, 07:09
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Great attitude re criticism |
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22nd March 2013, 09:48
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http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/t...eina-in-barcel
El Mundo Deportivo being naughty buggers putting De Gea and Reina on cover page saying they are battling to go to Barcelona. |
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22nd March 2013, 09:54
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First Team Regular
Join Date: Nov 2010
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Always think he comes across very well in interviews... seems like he's an intelligent bloke. We will probably lose him to a Spanish side at some point... but that'll probably years from now.
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22nd March 2013, 10:36
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You just know that eventually he would want to go back to Spain, I just hope it isn't until he's in his thirties.
Hopefully Barcelona and Madrid have great keepers themselves for years to come so that De Gea would not want to leave. But then he's said Madrid is his city which rules out Barcelona yet he's an atletico fan which should rule out real. Who would he go back to? |
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22nd March 2013, 10:42
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I am a mod, I swear
 Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Everybody will be dancing and be doing it right.
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The longer he lives in Manchester the more adjusted he will become to it all too. The worst case scenario is that he eventually leaves to go back to Spain. There are many other scenarios where he could start to feel a lot more settled, learn to love the culture, etc.. and want to stay, ala Reina.
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22nd March 2013, 10:43
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22nd March 2013, 10:48
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No Lifer
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22nd March 2013, 11:07
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Everything that's wrong with the Football Manager generation
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Man United fan
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Spain's papers will of course be linking De Gea to their clubs for as long as he is here. If Joe Hart played in Spain our papers would do the same.
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22nd March 2013, 11:11
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22nd March 2013, 11:37
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22nd March 2013, 12:13
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22nd March 2013, 12:26
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Newbie of the Year 2011. Twat of the Millenium. Hide yo' wife, oates!
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: "Holistic"
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He's a quiet, level-headed bloke. It really impressed me that, when he played at Anfield for us, he seemed the calmest guy on the pitch.
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22nd March 2013, 12:32
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Lets face it, being number 1 at any major club is a big honour and I don't think top keepers move around as frequently as other positions so hopefully he's here for at least ten years. He doesn't come across as the type of player that will feel the need to go competing in all the big leagues so Spain is our only worry in that retrospect. But even then, he said Madrid is his city so why would he want to go Barca, and he's an atletico fan so why would he want to go to real? Hopefully he'll just want to go to atletico when he's much older and stay with us for most of his career. |
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22nd March 2013, 12:51
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First Team Regular
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Well Tevez is 29 so even if he moves to Boca right away at the end of the season, if DDG stays till hes 29 and then leaves would that be dissappointing? I dont know. I'm sure we'd be richly compensated and find a good solution, like we did with VDS. But I'm sure DDG will stay a long time
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22nd March 2013, 13:05
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Reserve Team Player
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Enough of these dubstep jokes - just drop it!
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I'm not worried about Real Madrid. De Gea seems too loyal to Athletico to leave for them lot. Barcelona? Maybe. It totally depends on who Barca use after Valdes departures. If they stick with Pinto, then maybe it's just a stop-gap for a potential move for De Gea in the future. If they bring in a decently young+experienced chap, then I'll feel more confident.
But I fully expect De Gea to stay with us for another 5/6 years or so, at the very least. |
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22nd March 2013, 23:58
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Obsessed with discrediting Danny Welbeck
Join Date: Aug 2009
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“Sir Alex is more than a manager,” said De Gea. “He controls everything in the team. He’s a father for all those who come to the club. For that he is the best. A footballer has to get used to good and bad words. At times things are said that don’t make a lot of sense and it is part of the job to know how to live with that. The best thing is to know who you are always.”
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23rd March 2013, 00:04
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