According to reports in Spain, a clause in the Manchester United keeper’s contract means the La Liga giants can sign him for £39million before June 15.
Incredibly, it is claimed Madrid will have to pay De Gea a massive £8.5m if a deal is not completed by that date.
The clause was inserted after a catastrophic mix-up led to the star’s move to the Bernabeu falling through in the final seconds of deadline day last summer.
And Spanish paper AS claims that United’s three-time player of the season is ready to go to war with new boss Jose Mourinho to finally seal his dream switch. The 25-year-old who is building a house minutes from Madrid’s training ground is reportedly keen to push the deal through before the start of Euro 2016 next week.
Madrid president Florentino Perez considers De Gea to be the best in the world and wants him to sign on as the club’s long-term solution in goal.
Boss Zinedine Zidane is happy with current stopper Keylor Navas — who kept an unprecedented nine clean sheets in eleven games en route to winning the Champions League in Milan last weekend. But Perez sees it as his moral obligation to sign De Gea after making the distraught keeper a personal promise when his dream move collapsed last year.
Mourinho has joined United last month charged with returning the club to the top of the Premier League next season and is desperate to cling onto his best player.
Madrid bosses believe that United deliberately scuppered the move last summer when they stalled over faxing signed contracts until after the midnight deadline has passed.
AS reports that the club are expecting more antics this time as Mourinho tries to halt a deal. It has been suggested that Madrid could seek to sign De Gea and instantly loan him back to Old Trafford for a season but the Special One is unlikely to agree to such an arrangement.
Last summer’s proposed transfer included Navas moving in the other direction to join United but the Costa Rican was not believed to be in favour of a move to England.
Mourinho is understood to be willing to give former Barcelona keeper Victor Valdez a reprieve after he was frozen out under axed Louis van Gaal.
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