8 things you (probably) didn’t know about Manchester United’s David De Gea

He was approached by QPR in 2009

Not only were Wigan interested in De Gea’s services, so were West London side Queens Park Rangers.

While playing for the Atletico Madrid B team, just a year after signing a professional deal in the Spanish capital, the Championship side are thought to have made an approach for the then 18-year-old in the summer of 2009, although no deal ever materialised.

Instead, within a few months, he made his first team debut for Atletico in their Champions League defeat at Porto.