Mourinho confident De Gea will sign new long-term deal
Manchester:manchesterunited manager Jose Mourinho said Friday HE IS CONIDENT SPANISH INTERNATIONAL goalkeeper David de Gea will sign a new deal linking him long-term to Old Trafford.
The 28-year-old de Gea’s longterm future at the club has been shrouded in uncertainty, although the club this week did activate an option to extend his current contract by a year, meaning he is now signed up until June 2020.
Had that extension not been triggered, De Gea would have been free to talk to clubs outside England from Jan.1 and possibly sign a precontract agreement. Mourinho said he wanted De Gea to stay, and he remains optimistic an agreement on the player’s will be reached.
“He wants to stay, and I want him to stay of course,” Mourinho said at Friday’s press conference.
“He’sthelevelofplayermanchester United needs.
“The manager wants him to stay, the board wants him to stay, David wants to stay, and his agent (Jorge Mendes) wants the player to do what he thinks is right.”
Meanwhile, Alexis Sanchez’s miserable spell at United took another turn for the worse on Friday with Mourinho announcing he faces several weeks out with a hamstring injury.
Sanchez, dropped from the squad for Tuesday’s 1-0 Champions League win over Swiss outfit Young Boys, suffered the injury in training on Thursday.
“It is an aggressive muscular injury,” Mourinho said. “It is not a little muscular injury that he will be ready in a week or 10 days.”