5 reasons why David de Gea will stay at Manchester United

#3 Manchester United and Real Madrid are not the best of friends anymore

Zinedine Zidane and Florentino Perez

There used to be a time not long back when the only clubs that could entice a player who was tearing it up at Old Trafford were from Spain and were largely restricted to FC Barcelona or Real Madrid.

And Real Madrid and Manchester United have joined hands to facilitate the movement of players to and fro. Look at David Beckham, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Cristiano Ronaldo, Angel di Maria etc.

But ever since the fax machine fiasco that led to Real Madrid missing out on David de Gea in 2015, the relationship seems to have suffered. It got even worse last summer.

Manchester United were vying to sign Alvaro Morata from Real Madrid. However, the European champions quoted a dastardly figure and waited for United to match it. Manchester United made their final offer which fell short of Madrid's evaluation of the player.

United pulled out of the negotiations and went ahead and bought Romelu Lukaku from Everton and that has proved to be a wise decision this season.

Manchester United showed Real Madrid that they weren't going to dance to the whims of the Madrid board and this has tainted their relationship. In this scenario, Manchester United selling their best player to Real Madrid looks very improbable.

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Shambhu is a European and international football journalist at Sportskeeda who focuses on previews, listicles and news articles. An ardent Manchester United supporter since before his teenage years, he started following the Red Devils by age 10 watching MUTV on television. Shambhu is also a highly-revered rapper and a playback singer on Spotify, having a whopping 1 million monthly listeners.

For his articles, Shambhu believes in triple-checking every piece of information, relying on trusted websites like Transfermarkt and Opta, and staying away from speculative publications. He believes that his law degree helped him to be more articulate and meticulous with his content and one of his core strengths is seamlessly involving emotion in his write-ups owing to the love for the sport. For Sportskeeda, has done exclusive interviews with Spanish legends Gaizka Mendieta and Fernando Morientes so far, and his articles boast of a huge readership of close to 50 million.

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