{"id":431300,"date":"2011-05-27T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/27\/david-de-gea-advised-to-join-manchester-united-by-atletico-madrid-team-mate-diego-forlan\/"},"modified":"2011-05-27T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T11:37:00","slug":"david-de-gea-advised-to-join-manchester-united-by-atletico-madrid-team-mate-diego-forlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/27\/david-de-gea-advised-to-join-manchester-united-by-atletico-madrid-team-mate-diego-forlan\/","title":{"rendered":"David de Gea advised to join Manchester United by Atletico Madrid team-mate Diego Forlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By David Lynch<\/h3>\n<h4>27 May 2011 12:37:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"56.0391483516\">\n<div readability=\"13.534562212\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Diego Forlan, Atletico de Madrid (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/121800\/121803_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Diego Forlan, Atletico de Madrid (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/uruguay\/1959\/diego-forl%C3%A1n-corazo\">Diego Forlan<\/a> has advised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/uruguay\/1959\/diego-forl%C3%A1n-corazo\">Manchester United<\/a> target <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/21189\/de-gea\">David de Gea<\/a> to join the Old Trafford club.<\/span><br \/>\n<span readability=\"20\"><br \/>The Atletico Madrid forward, who had a disappointing spell in Manchester, has hailed Sir Alex Ferguson as a &#8220;legend&#8221; and says the club were always very supportive despite his lack of goals for the Red Devils.<\/p>\n<p>He was quoted as saying in <em>The Sun<\/em>: &#8220;David is a very good keeper with a bright future. He asked my advice about moving to United and we talked about it a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Uruguay international, who scored 17 goals in just under 100 appearances for the club, added: &#8220;It is a great place to experience as a player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The manager is a legend, the staff are all really good and the fans were always very supportive of me, even when I wasn&#8217;t scoring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>De Gea, 20, has made over 50 appearances for Atletico Madrid and looks set to join United this summer as a replacement for Edwin van der Sar, who will retire after Saturday&#8217;s Champions League final against Barcelona.<br \/><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Our<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0provides the best breaking news online and our\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0football fan community is unmatched worldwide. Never miss a thing again!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/27\/2505718\/david-de-gea-advised-to-join-manchester-united-by-atletico\" title=\"David de Gea advised to join Manchester United by Atletico Madrid team-mate Diego Forlan\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David de Gea advised to join Manchester United by Atletico Madrid team-mate Diego Forlan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By David Lynch 27 May 2011 12:37:00 Diego Forlan, Atletico de Madrid (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Diego Forlan has advised Manchester United target David de Gea to join the Old Trafford club. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":430494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-431300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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