David de Gea wanted to leave Manchester United for Real Madrid due to differences with Louis van Gaal, claims Eric Steele, with the Spaniard now settled and ready to embrace the competition posed by Dean Henderson.
Speculation regarding a return to his homeland for the highly-rated goalkeeper raged across several windows before a move was finally ruled out.
De Gea had initially pushed for an exit during the reign of Van Gaal, before then seeing a fax machine issue prevent him from making a deadline-day switch to Santiago Bernabeu in 2017 – by which time Jose Mourinho was at the Red Devils helm.