Report: David De Gea bids goodbye to Manchester United teammates ahead of Real Madrid move

Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea may be in a Real Madrid shirt next season

According to a report in The Telegraph, Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea may have played his last game for the Red Devils ahead of a move to Real Madrid this summer. The Spanish goalkeeper’s contract expires in the summer of 2016 – a year from now.

With United desperate to hold on to their Player of the Season, who was signed from Atletico Madrid in 2011 for £18.3m, the 24-year-old has not yet put pen to paper on a new long-term deal worth £200,000-a-week – record wages for a goalkeeper in England.

The report states that De Gea said his farewells at United’s Aon Training Complex in Carrington. And Real Madrid have not kept their admiration for De Gea a secret. Their chase for the custodian was put on hold last week as they looked for a managerial replacement after Carlo Ancelotti was sacked.

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is looking to sign De Gea for £25 million with the goalkeeper looking to move back to Madrid where his girlfriend and pop star Edurne García Almagro stays.

I can’t persuade De Gea to stay: Van Gaal

United manager Louis van Gaal had said a week before the season ended that he could not persuade De Gea to stay: “I don’t think I can persuade him because he knows everything he has at Manchester United.

“I don’t have to say something because he can feel it every day. You have seen the fans – unbelievable. When he is going, he is losing that. Here he has a lot of credits. He has to decide.”

De Gea himself was noncommittal when asked about his future and said: “We’ll see what happens with my future. I’m on vacation now.”