{"id":378772,"date":"2011-04-13T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/13\/manchester-united-and-chelsea-battling-to-sign-david-de-gea-reveals-atletico-madrid-chief\/"},"modified":"2011-04-13T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T00:12:00","slug":"manchester-united-and-chelsea-battling-to-sign-david-de-gea-reveals-atletico-madrid-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/13\/manchester-united-and-chelsea-battling-to-sign-david-de-gea-reveals-atletico-madrid-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United and Chelsea battling to sign David De Gea, reveals Atletico Madrid chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h4>13 Apr 2011 01:12:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"68.994211287988\">\n<div readability=\"14.397058823529\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David De Gea, Atletico de Madrid (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/28546962110248_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>David De Gea, Atletico de Madrid (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"35.98982869379\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/spain\/129\/atletico-madrid\">Atletico Madrid<\/a> have revealed that both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/man-utd\">Manchester United<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea-news\">Chelsea<\/a> have made offers for their goalkeeper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/21189\/david-de-gea\">David De Gea<\/a> but insist that no deal has been struck with any club yet.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old custodian has established himself as Atletico\u2019s first choice goalkeeper and has been the subject of transfer speculation for a number of months, with United manager Sir Alex Ferguson reportedly keen to sign him in the summer to replace veteran Edwin van der Sar, who will retire at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday Spanish radio station <em>Onda Cero<\/em> reported that agent Jorge Mendes has met officials from United and struck a \u20ac20 million (\u00a317.8m) transfer deal, but Atletico chief Gil Marin moved quickly to squash suggestions that De Gea is definitely leaving in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJorge Mendes is in England, but not to negotiate a deal for De Gea,\u201d Gil Marin told <em>Onda Cero<\/em>. \u201dMendes does not have the authority to act on behalf of De Gea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the season we will see if he wants to leave. If he wants to go, we\u2019ll refer to his \u20ac25m \u00a322.25m buy-out clause. Until then we count on him to remain with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Gil Marin did admit that they have received offers from England and told radio station <em>Cadena SER<\/em>: \u201cWe\u2019ve received offers from both United and Chelsea for De Gea. He also has an offer from us to renew his deal. We\u2019d like him to stay here, but David\u2019s future is entirely in his own hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The young Spaniard\u2019s father Jose De Gea also denied that his son has signed any agreement with any club and is quoted by Spanish sports daily <em>Marca<\/em> as saying: \u201cIt is completely untrue that my son has signed for Manchester United.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Gea\u2019s current contract with Atletico runs until June 2013.<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/28546962110248_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/13\/2438842\/manchester-united-and-chelsea-battling-to-sign-david-de-gea\" title=\"Manchester United and Chelsea battling to sign David De Gea, reveals Atletico Madrid chief\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United and Chelsea battling to sign David De Gea, reveals Atletico Madrid chief<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 13 Apr 2011 01:12:00 David De Gea, Atletico de Madrid (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Atletico Madrid have revealed that both Manchester United and Chelsea have made offers for their goalkeeper David De Gea but insist that no deal has been struck with any club yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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