Goalkeeper David de Gea, has provided an update on his contract negotiations with the Premier League team.
The 32-year-contract old's expires at the end of the current campaign after 517 appearances spanning roughly 12 years at Manchester United.
Despite recently invoking comparable clauses in the contracts of Marcus Rashford, Luke Shaw, Diogo Dalot, and Fred, United has not yet exercised its option to extend De Gea's current contract by a further 12 months.
De Gea and Man United are negotiating a new contract that would lower his base pay from about £300,000 per week.
According to SportsBible, the club wants the Spain international to sign a contract with lower monthly compensation but substantial performance-based bonuses.Given that he has reached the last six months of his contract, David De Gea is now free to discuss a pre-contract with overseas teams. However, the Spanish player, who transferred from Atletico Madrid to United back in 2011, has indicated he will stay at Old Trafford for the upcoming campaign.
"We're still talking," said De Gea after Saturday's 2-1 win over Crystal Palace.
"For sure it's going to end in a good way," he added.
During Man United's 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace, the 28-year-old Austrian international who had been on loan at Manchester United from Bayern Munich made his team's debut off the bench.
The Austrian international made his debut with Erik ten Hag's side down to ten men after the Casemiro was sent off, contrary to what United's new number 15 may have assumed he would have been doing.
The former Red Bull Leipzig midfielder, however, produced a diligent and spirited cameo alongside Fred and Bruno Fernandes that helped United defeat Patrick Vieira's Eagles.
As a result of Donny van de Beek's long-term injury, Scott McTominay's struggles, Eriksen's impending late-April absence, and Casemiro's impending three-game suspension, Sabitzer will probably make his complete debut with Fred and Fernandes against Leeds United on Wednesday.
De Gea, 32, loved what he saw from Sabitzer and has backed the box-to-box midfielder "to help the club a lot" despite being aware that United will be poorer without our first-choice midfield duo.
“It’s going to be tough, for sure. We lost already Christian, now Case, big players for us, but we have a bigger squad, players are ready to play, everyone is really focused,” De Gea said via The Athletic.
“He (Sabitzer) shows already — he played 15 to 20 minutes, he did really well, made some good tackles, good with the ball. Everyone is ready to play.
“He’s an experienced guy, he played a lot of games in the Bundesliga. He’s a nice guy, a very nice lad, it’s good for the dressing room. I think he showed in 15 minutes, it’s not easy to come in a game when we’re one man less, he showed good spirit. I think he’s going to help the team a lot.”
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