Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has confirmed the club will trigger a one-year extension clause in David De Gea’s contract before offering him a new deal at the club. The Spaniard signed a new four-year deal with the option of another year in 2015 after his move to Real Madrid collapsed on deadline day due to the club’s failure to process the necessary paperwork in time. De Gea’s been crowned United’s player of the year in three of the last four seasons but Real Madrid have maintained their interest in the 27-year-old. Mourinho, though, says De Gea will be offered a new long-term deal to stay at Old Trafford and revealed the club will take up their option of extending his deal by 12 months
‘It’s obvious that we are not going to let the option [to extend his deal] disappear,’ said Mourinho. ‘A goalkeeper like he is, at a club that wants to be better and better and better – we are not going to let that option go away. We are going to try. ‘[Executive vice-chairman] Mr Woodward is not on holiday – he barely has holidays – and of course he is going to try to give him a contract that keeps him here for much more than the option that, of course, we are going to execute.’
De Gea’s current deal runs until 2019 but it would expire in 2020 when the club trigger the 12-month extension and Mourinho says he’s unsure if the club are in talks with the Spaniard. ‘I don’t know,’ said Mourinho. ‘I just trust the board and the work they do. I don’t negotiate players; I don’t discuss numbers and contracts. ‘I just say what is obvious and any one of you would say the same: David is to keep.’
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