When in talks about a new contract, there are things to do and things not to: stumbling over the ball in a Europa League quarter-final and giving the opposition striker an open goal from 35 yards probably belongs in the latter category. There were about 40,000 raucous delighted Spaniards in the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium, but David de Gea wasn’t one of them.
Youssef En-Nesyri’s second goal, and Sevilla’s third, was not his only mistake as Manchester United beat a sorry retreat from Europe, but it was the most glaring. His current £375,000-a-week salary worked out at £125,000 for each goal where he should have done better. Staying at Old Trafford will already involve a sizeable pay cut but De Gea may wish negotiations had been concluded before his harrowing night in Seville.
