De Gea has broken his silence over 'doughnutgate'

• zocoss

  30 Sep 11, 21:21

  Sticky-fingered United keeper De Gea 'caught stealing doughnut from Tesco'

   

   

  

  Sticky situation ... David de Gea

   

   

  

  Tempting ... doughnuts at the store

   

   

   

   

   

  David de Gea might earn £35,000 a week but that didn't stop the Manchester United keeper allegedly stealing a £1.19 doughnut from Tesco.

  The Spaniard waltzed into the store in Atrincham, Greater Manchester with two friends before wolfing down the tasty treat, it is being claimed.

  De Gea apparently tried to make a speedy exit but was spotted on CCTV and quizzed by security staff - one of whom spoke Spanish.

  They left the star in no doubt that he had made a howler but stopped short of taking any further action or calling the police.

  'The security guards who monitor the CCTV watched two of them take a doughnut each out of the Krispy Kreme cabinet,' a source claimed in The Sun.

  'They weren’t very subtle. They swaggered in chatting loudly in Spanish.

  'Incredibly, they then appeared to try to leave without paying — or buying anything else for that matter.'

  The source said that when challenged and ushered into the search room, de Gea did not seem to know what was going on and 'looked pretty embarrassed'.

  A Tesco spokesman said: 'A customer was spoken to by our security team and the issue was resolved.'

  The store has a strict policy of a three-month store ban for alleged shoplifters.

  At training on Friday, De Gea was reportedly ribbed by his United team-mates who offered to buy the hard-up keeper another round of doughnuts.

  The young goalkeeper is regarded as one of the best in the world and commanded a fee of £17.8 million when United signed him from Athletico Madrid.

  But his Old Trafford career got off to a shaky start before he began to find his feet between the posts.

  His boss Sir Alex Ferguson is fully behind his No 1 keeper.

  He said of de Gea earlier this month: 'He’s 20 years of age and doesn’t know the culture of the country.

  'That’s a lot to deal with but he has shown great composure about the whole thing.

  'He’s not got himself flapping about the goalmouth. I think he’s absolutely outstanding. The boy is tremendous.'

   

• Jacky Woo

  30 Sep 11, 21:23

  cheapo earn so much dun want to pay, shame on him

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  30 Sep 11, 21:30

  so hungry until he dun wan to paid?

• Rooney9

  30 Sep 11, 21:30

  the security should detain him and call police

• jgho83

  1 Oct 11, 13:03

  ah... the time when ppl r young and impulsive!

• zocoss

  1 Oct 11, 16:48

  Well... at least his isn't as bad as Glen Johnson trying to get away with a toilet seat cover... ha ha ha...

  Not too sure if he is amongst the 2 of the 3 as it's not fully clear, only allegedly...

  Anyway, it's certainly a great promotional means for the doughnut... Otherwise it could cost tens of thousands just to get him to endorse it... lol.

   

• likeyou

  1 Oct 11, 16:52

  Funny that pple who earn good money and salary love to steal.

   

• iceFatboy

  5 Oct 11, 11:21

  well, I bet his hair will b "air-dryed" for a while...

• zocoss

  5 Oct 11, 13:44

  Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea laughs off 'doughnutgate' after being stopped by Tesco security

  Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea has broken his silence over 'doughnutgate', insisting it was simply a misunderstanding after he forgot his wallet.

  

  Mountain out of a molehill: David de Gea has explained Tesco trip Photo: GETTY IMAGES

  By Telegraph staff

   

    

   

  De Gea was stopped by security at Tesco Express in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, after CCTV caught him eating a £1.19 doughnut and then walking towards the exit without paying. It even made the front page of The Sun.

  But De Gea, who reportedly earns around £70,000 a week, has revealed it was nothing more sinister than he'd left his money in the car and was going back out to get it.

  He said: "Nothing really happened. Me, my cousin and a friend from Spain went to the shop, we were hungry and took the doughnuts.

  "We were going to buy more things. I realised I didn't have my wallet so I went out to the car to get it. Nothing more.

  "They thought that I was leaving without paying so I tried to explain to them but my English is still not very good and we were there for a while.

  "In the end a Spanish girl arrived and we understood each other and in the end they ended up apologising to us.

  "They made a big thing out of nothing but I took the whole thing as something funny."

  And the £18 million signing from Atletico Madrid has revealed that doughnut-gate has made him the butt of many a joke on the United training ground.

  "A few of my team-mates gave me a few doughnuts as a joke," he added. "But I took it in good humour and thought the whole thing was funny."

  De Gea, who has had mixed reviews following his arrival from Spain, denied he was dropped by manager Sir Alex Ferguson for Saturday's defeat of Norwich City following the incident.

  "Absolutely not true," he said. "Yes, people were joking about it in the club but it was his decision to rest me."

• Rooney9

  5 Oct 11, 13:54

  it was the media who sensationalise it and factually it was wrong, not that they care anyway.

• zocoss

  7 Oct 11, 00:56

   

  You have to hand it to David De Gea. He may be as forgetful when it comes to paying for stuff as he is suspect at crosses, long shots and what not, but he also knows how to laugh at himself. As this clip from Spanish TV - referencing the recent episode in Tescos when the Man United keeper reportedly eat a doughnut without paying for it

   

   

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzspMMkmJ2Q

   

   

   

  Dough-not again! United keeper De Gea can't resist eating THAT snack during interview

   

   

   

   

  At first glance you may think it’s video footage of David De Gea feasting on some doughnuts swiped from a supermarket.

  But there was no danger of the Manchester United stopper getting into a sticky situation this time around, as the clip instead shows the Spaniard telling Spanish TV his version of doughnutgate.

  De Gea allegedly stole a £1.19 doughnut from a Tesco store in Altrincham after being spotted by store staff on CCTV.

  The 20-year-old, on duty with the Spain Under 21s, explained that the incident was a misunderstanding due to his little spoken English, before happily munching on the doughnut placed next to him.

  De Gea then offers international team mate Iker Muniain a bite, proclaiming that ‘sharing is living’, clearly happy to make light of last week’s incident.

  No further action was taken by the store on the keeper who earns £35,000-a-week at Old Trafford.

   

  

  What do you mean there's none left? De Gea in action for Manchester United