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.'
