Disgraceful the way we've handled this. We gave De Gea the big contract, knowing full-well that Henderson will want to be the number one. In fact, even Henderson is earning too much for a PL goalkeeper, let alone one that is unproven at our level.
Now, we've let Henderson take over the number 1 spot without any discernable improvement in performance against De Gea's (I personally think Henderson is slightly worse, granted he's younger). Not only that but Henderson has not been tested in front of a crowd with all the pressure that entails playing for Manchester United. Not only that but we've used De Gea having a child as an opportunity to (figuratively) stab him in the back and use the weak excuse Deano has been performing well, so he deserves his spot.
Funny though that the above logic does not apply to when our Captain Fantastic has a mare in Greece, has not played well all season or when McTominay has been subpar for games on end. Or it also doesn't apply when Tuanzebe/Bailly/Donny have had fantastic performances but never had a snowball in hell's chance of retaining their starting 11 spot. Just pure hypocrisy.
Personally, this looks like someone at the club feeling the heat and clearly taking the route of briefing against De Gea to turn public perception against him which by the sound of the gullible people in this thread has worked like a dream.
The truth is the Glazers and their puppets have given De Gea too high a wage that we cannot offload, so they want to push him to take a pay cut to save face.