Louis van Gaal revealed that David de Gea has privately told Manchester United he doesn't want to be part of the team.

De Gea has been seeking a move to Real Madrid all summer.

De Gea was asked outright if he wanted to play and told the club’s coaching staff he did not want to be involved because he was too distracted.

“We talked with him [De Gea] and he fully agreed with our decision,” Van Gaal said. “I have one assistant coach and another assistant coach so we speak about that kind of thing together. We have a goalkeeping coach, Frans Hoek, and I’m not doing everything alone.

“Frans Hoek … he has a meeting with David de Gea and he asked him: ‘Do you want to play?’” Asked what the response was, Van Gaal said: “‘No.’ Then I have to take the decision. It is a process. We had been observing him in preparation, he was not so good, he was not the same David de Gea as before. He was my best player last season. According to the fans, he was the best of the last two years.”

De Gea’s camp have been saying that he would have been happy to play and that it was wrong of Van Gaal to say he was not fully focused.