While there’s no denying everything David De Gea has brought to Manchester United over the years with many game saving performances, the Spanish goalkeeper has endured a bit of a decline over the past few years.
His start of the season under Erik ten Hag couldn’t have got off to a worst start, letting in six goals in his first two games against Brighton & Hove Albion and Brentford.
He might have turned things around a bit afterwards, but the rumours of the Dutch manager wanting a new goalkeeper haven’t gone away.
By his side, throughout his time in Manchester, has been his wife Edurne, a professional singer, who recently gave an interview about her relationship with the English media, where she feels she is only seen as one of the ‘WAGs’, lumped in with her husband and what happens to him with little to no recognition to what she has achieved in her career.
She said, speaking to Dejate Querer and relayed by Reportajes, that she often felt judged when De Gea had a poor game, but “when he has a good day, nobody remembers me.”
Edurne then added: “They treat us as ‘wives of’ when we have our own lives, our own profession, our things…”
When asked whether this was due to the fact that some partners of footballers ’show an unattainable reality’ by flaunting ‘creams that are worth a lot of money’ or ‘bags that are worth as much as a house’, she replied: “Each one decides what to do, what to show, what not to show. I don’t think you can generalise and label someone a ‘wife of’. I think it’s disrespectful to all women.”
As things stand, De Gea has one year left on his contract at Manchester United, with an option from the club to extend it for an extra year, although it remains to be seen whether he will want to remain in the north of England if Ten Hag does decide to bring in someone new.
Then again, if he does decide to leave, then Edurne will no longer have to live in a city which she once agreed looked like the back of a fridge.
