Manchester United transfer news never ceases to surprise us and the latest bit of information is that United are willing to do some weird piece of business, with David de Gea heading to Real Madrid in a £22m deal with Alvaro Morata coming to Old Trafford (Sky Sports). As weird as it sounds, it is hard to understand why we would sell the best goalkeeper in the world and buy an unproven talented striker instead.
De Gea is one of the most valuable player at Manchester United and surely, Real Madrid must be day dreaming really!
The news was actually tweeted by Sky Sports’ Football Expert in Spain, Guillem Balague. Just like every other Manchester United news, this went viral as well and the fans, as expected, were shocked and suprised too. Like, who wouldn’t be?
This is one of the strangest news one can ever come across and even Balague pointed it out in his tweet. If Woodward goes ahead with this deal, then surely, it would be a really wrong move from United.
The fans reacted to the news on Twitter and we managed to put them together to make a reading.
Here’s what Balague tweeted.
Jose Mourinho (strangely) ‘willing to sell de Gea for £22m in Alvaro Morata swap with Real Madrid’ https://t.co/b1AhwipoFi via @SkySports
— Guillem Balague (@GuillemBalague) June 4, 2017
Best keeper in the league for a young, unproven, unnecessary striker. Seems strange to me.
— (@Geezaaaaah) June 4, 2017
Utd need to be smart, Demand Rodriguez and Morata or Varane and Morata in exchange for De Gea. Not just money and Morata #MUFC
— Paul H (@Officialpaulh) June 5, 2017
I will physically get a plane to Manchester and put mourinhos house on fire if that’s a deal.we undersell and overbuy every player.
— Marc (@marcbarlow10_21) June 4, 2017
Unless it’s a direct swap for Bale or
Varane + 10 million we should never ever sell De Gea.#MUFC— Red Devil (@Gokul_On_Fire) June 5, 2017
If we swap Morata for De Gea.. then that would be worst business in footballing history..horrible horrible decision from Mourinho & @ManUtd
— Avishek Chatterjee (@AVIOMUFC) June 5, 2017
It’s laughable to think Morata is part of this deal.
I don’t even see him as a United type of player.— Mr G (@GZilani) June 4, 2017
£23m + De Gea for Morata is such a terrible deal for United, it’s not even worth discussing. We have CL, it’s important we keep De Gea.
— Eze K1ng (@misterk1ng) June 4, 2017
De Gea is worth much more to United than Morata would be. Wouldn’t be using De Gea as a pawn if he doesn’t even want to leave.
— JC (@JustCantona) June 4, 2017
Morata is overrated and if we let De Gea go on the cheap with him going the other way it only reinforces Reals dominance over us. #MUFC
— Isaac (@Isaldinho) June 5, 2017
I’ve this bad feeling that if we sell De Gea, mourinho will trust Romero which will definitely backfire at some time.
— Sanket (@nightwingding) June 5, 2017
This was rather the best response to what Balague tweeted..!
If you said it was dark at 2am I would go outside and check
— Will (@TheCityIsRED1) June 4, 2017