Florentino Pérez responded to the attacks from the press in relation to the Manchester United goalkeeper: "Every day I've had to hear that we had to pay 10 million euros for not signing De Gea and that's a lie", said the Real Madrid president.

"They are the same ones who have been saying since I arrived that I would turn Real Madrid into a public limited company. 15 years later they are still saying it and they accuse me of corrupting assemblies", Florentino added.