After leaving Manchester United in the summertime, David de Gea has been making himself seen in within the metropolis once more this week as he continues to seek for a brand new membership.
De Gea spent 12 largely profitable seasons at Outdated Trafford, profitable the Premier League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup and Europa League in that point earlier than leaving on a free over the summer season after negotiations over a brand new contract extension fizzled out.
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He’s the reigning Premier League Golden Glove winner after ending the 2022-23 season with extra clear sheets than any of his top-flight contemporaries, and but has discovered himself and not using a membership since leaving United in early July.
De Gea departed as United’s seventh highest all-time look maker, taking part in 545 video games in all competitions, however we at the moment are effectively into the 2023-24 season and he stays a free agent.
The Spain worldwide has returned to his previous stomping floor in latest days, simply as André Onana, his direct substitute as United’s No. 1, is within the midst of a poor begin to life at Outdated Trafford.
Onana, who arrived from Champions League runners-up Inter Milan in the summertime for £47.2 million, has already shipped 16 objectives in his first 11 appearances and has made a number of high-profile errors throughout his early United profession, main many followers to begin questioning supervisor Erik ten Hag’s seemingly unshakeable religion within the Cameroon worldwide.
Purely by coincidence, De Gea has been out and about in Manchester this week. On Tuesday the 32-year-old was noticed at Leigh Sports activities Village, the place he was watching the Purple Devils’ girls’s group participate of their very first Champions League sport towards Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday.
The next night, De Gea met up with fellow Spaniard Sergio Reguilón for a chunk to eat, and posted a photo on his Instagram story of himself with the full-back who’s on mortgage at United from Tottenham Hotspur this season.
That mentioned, no one can accuse Reguilon of taking sides with regards to Manchester United goalkeepers previous and current, with the 26-year-old defender making a public show of his support for Onana after he made a crucial dealing with error in final month’s 4-3 defeat at Bayern Munich.
Regardless of discovering himself at a free finish professionally for the previous few months, the summer season wasn’t solely uneventful for De Gea, who married long-term partner and Spanish pop star Edurne Garcia in a lavish ceremony on the island of Menorca in July, mere days earlier than his United exit was made official.
De Gea had reportedly been near a summer season swap to the Saudi Professional League with Al Hilal, however a link-up with Neymar in Riyadh didn’t materialise. He was additionally with linked a succession of huge European golf equipment resembling Actual Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Sevilla and Actual Betis, who had been all reported to have thought-about making a contract supply.
He has additionally made some extent of sharing footage of his fitness regime on social media as if to show to any potential suitors that his goalkeeping expertise are nonetheless honed and he takes his bodily conditioning severely with or with out having teammates to coach alongside.
Who is aware of, with Onana struggling for kind and nonetheless but to completely win over many at United, maybe a sensational Outdated Trafford comeback for De Gea is not fairly as farfetched because it as soon as appeared?