DE GEA’S STILL FOR KEEPS

JOSE MOURINHO has told Real Madrid that David de Gea is going nowhere. The European champions are longterm admirers of the Manchester United keeper and have put him high on their summer wish-list after seeing a deal for the Spanish international collapse on deadline day in August 2015. But while De Gea (right) has just 18 months left on his Old Trafford contract – and United have so far failed to convince him to sign an extension – boss Mourinho insists he will not be sold.

Mourinho said: “Do you think a club that is trying to attract the best players is a club that is open to lose their best players? It makes no sense – we have to attract the best players like we did with Alexis [Sanchez], [Nemanja] Matic, [Paul] Pogba and so on.“

De Gea, 27, joined United from Atletico Madrid for £18.9million in 2011 and won the club’s player of the year in three successive seasons from 2014 onwards. But he is now stalling on signing a new deal.