NoPace
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My guess is it's both. We want De Gea to agree to much, much lower wages AND we're going to bring in a young #2 (Coton might be out looking for him).Why does Erik ten Hag give him a massive new contract?
He hasn't as far as I know and De Gea is currently free to talk to rival clubs and is about 3 months away from being released. If he was so important then they wouldn't have allowed things to get to a stage where he can legally agree a pre-contract with another club.
There has been tier 1 reports about the club wanting to keep him on 'significantly' reduced wages. But there's also been talk about Tony Coton being deployed to find a goalkeeper who fits the profile that ten Hag wants.
If De Gea agrees to lower wages and say a 2+1 deal, then we'll keep him and sign that #2 (the MLS Serbian kid the name this week but who knows) to be groomed to take over in 12-36 months.
If De Gea says no, we sign David Raya, Samba, Bijlow, Bounouh, Pau Lopez or someone like that we can get for 20M or so if they push for the move.