{"id":450061,"date":"2011-06-29T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T10:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/29\/man-utd-confirm-signing-of-de-gea\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T10:37:10","slug":"man-utd-confirm-signing-of-de-gea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/man-utd-confirm-signing-of-de-gea\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd confirm signing of De Gea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"84.6849577897\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/53754000\/jpg\/_53754123_degea.jpg\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\" alt=\"David de Gea with Sir Alex Ferguson\" \/> David de Gea holds up his new Man Utd shirt with boss Sir Alex Ferguson<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Manchester United have confirmed the signing of goalkeeper David de Gea from Atletico Madrid on a five-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Spain Under-21 international, 20, underwent a medical at Old Trafford on Monday and will finalise what is thought to be an \u00a318.9m move on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel very proud and I can&#8217;t wait to start playing here,&#8221; De Gea told MUTV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When a club the size of Manchester United comes in for you, it obviously makes you very, very happy. I&#8217;m keen to do my best and show what I can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The deal marks De Gea out as the second most expensive keeper behind Gianluigi Buffon, who cost Juventus \u00a332.6m in 2001.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>MOST EXPENSIVE GOALKEEPERS<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/13933241.stm#skip_feature_02\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gianluigi Buffon &#8211; \u00a332.6m<\/li>\n<li>David de Gea &#8211; \u00a318.9m*<\/li>\n<li>Angelo Peruzzi &#8211; \u00a310.5m<\/li>\n<li>Craig Gordon &#8211; \u00a39m<\/li>\n<li>Fabien Barthez &#8211; \u00a37.8m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>*Estimated fee<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>De Gea, part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/13917258.stm\" title=\"Spain win Euro U21 Championship\">Spain squad that won the European Under-21 Championship on Saturday,<\/a> is a product of Atletico&#8217;s youth academy, spending his first professional season with the club&#8217;s reserves in the Segunda Division B before making his senior debut as a substitute in the Champions League against Porto in September 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Since then he has made nearly 100 senior appearances for the Spanish outfit.<\/p>\n<p>His arrival at Old Trafford follows the departure of Edwin van der Sar, who retired after the Champions League final defeat by Barcelona in May.<\/p>\n<p>In May, United manager Sir Alex Ferguson confirmed the Red Devils had been working on the De Gea deal for &#8220;quite a while&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a young goalkeeper, very quick, good composure, presence and an outstanding replacement for Van der Sar,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/News-And-Features\/Football-News\/2011\/May\/Sir-Alex-confirms-De-Gea-deal.aspx\">Ferguson told the club website.<\/a><\/p>\n<div readability=\"25.8755980861\">\n<h2>Alan Hansen&#8217;s column<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/13933241.stm#skip_feature_02\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p>The hardest person to replace in your team is always the goalkeeper. De Gea is only a young boy, so it will be very intriguing to see how he goes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/13894579.stm\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We were looking for the same type of qualities as Edwin, because the one great quality Edwin always had was his composure and organisational ability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, upon completion of the deal, De Gea added: &#8220;I saw Man Utd&#8217;s interest as an extra motivation to work even harder to show off my ability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great privilege to be part of a club like United.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson currently has goalkeepers Tomasz Kuszczak, Anders Lindegaard and Ben Amos on his books but De Gea is widely expected to be the Scot&#8217;s number one in the new season.<\/p>\n<p>The deal takes the Premier League champions&#8217; summer spending past the \u00a350m mark after the acquisitions of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13754461.stm\">defender Phil Jones from Blackburn<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13882802.stm\">Ashley Young from Aston Villa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13933241.stm\" title=\"Man Utd confirm signing of De Gea\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Man Utd confirm signing of De Gea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> David de Gea holds up his new Man Utd shirt with boss Sir Alex Ferguson Manchester United have confirmed the signing of goalkeeper David de Gea from Atletico Madrid on a five-year deal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-450061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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