Manchester United's 32-year-old goalkeeper David De Gea has surpassed the legend Peter Schmeichel to become the most goalkeeper in the club's history with 181 clean sheets. The Spanish goalkeeper's record is expected to continue, with his new contract talks with the club nearing completion, with a two-year extension. De Gea's new contract wages have been drastically reduced, and there are conditions for receiving a full weekly salary.
It is reported that De Gea's weekly salary is a total of 250,000 pounds, but not all of it is a base salary, and his guaranteed salary is lower, less than 200,000 pounds, but if he can start more than half of all competitions in the season, he can get additional bonuses. Specifically, if United have 60 games in all competitions next season, De Gea would need to start 30 of those games to receive a full £250,000 weekly salary.
Manchester United are looking to give David De Gea a new two-year contract as his performances this season have been recognised by manager Ten Hag. "Duck Daddy" have kept 10 clean sheets in 24 Premier League games and four clean sheets in 8 Europa League games. Moreover, De Gea won the best of the team last season, winning more awards than Cristiano Ronaldo. However, his current weekly salary of £375,000 is too high and can only be renewed with a salary cut.
A £125,000 weekly salary cut by De Gea will save the club £6.5 million a year. At the same time, if Ten Hag decides to change the starting goalkeeper in the future, when the Spanish goalkeeper is a substitute, there will be no embarrassing scene of the top paid player sitting on the cold bench.
Once De Gea renews his contract, his weekly salary will be lower than that of the likes of Casemiro, Varane and Sancho, and on par with Martial, and Marcus' salary after the extension will certainly surpass him.
De Gea is not against that, despite having played for the club for 12 years, making a total of 524 appearances and winning the Premier League, Europa League, FA Cup and League Cup. The 9th Dynasty patriarch made it clear that he wanted to die at Old Trafford.
Italian transfer expert Fabrizio Romano confirmed that Manchester United's talks with him are progressing well. De Gea said: "I want to hang up my boots at Manchester United, I always say this is my club. I've worked here for many, many years, it's a huge honour to be here and I'm very happy to stay."
Commenting on his progress in contract extension negotiations, De Gea said: "I'm very relaxed about my contract and now I'm focused on playing the best possible performance for the team. We're visiting Anfield this week, the away fans at Manchester United have been incredible and it's a good time to play against Liverpool, let's give it our all and win this game."
De Gea wants to achieve a double this season against arch-rivals Liverpool: "The first leg at the beginning of the season was a great game and I think we played very, very well, controlled the game and didn't give the opponent a lot of chances. It was great to play at home, the game against Liverpool, a special day in the eyes of the fans. Of course it's at Anfield, we're not playing at Old Trafford, but it's a great place to play your own football and enjoy the game."
At the same time, the British media "Football Insider" revealed that Manchester United's England substitute Dean Henderson, who was loaned to Nottingham Forest this season, will not be able to stay, his weekly salary is as high as 120,000 pounds, and he is not willing to be a substitute, and has publicly criticized the club and former manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer this season. As a result, United will be looking to trade Henderson this summer for a transfer fee of more than £20 million.