Our current no.1 entered the top 10 of all-time appearance makers for the club when facing Everton in the Emirates FA Cup on Friday night.
With 511 matches under his belt, David has moved ahead of Joe Spence and now has ninth-placed Denis Irwin his sights.
At 32, De Gea still has many years ahead of him in the sport but he is a very different goalie to the one signed from Atletico Madrid in 2011.
"If you play for Manchester United," former Red van der Gouw explained to us. "It’s really hard to play consistently in every game, very well.