Blanket Warm

Slightly late in the day, but here's the paper round-up.

Main story today, David De Gea's medical and imminent signing:

David De Gea underwent a medical at Manchester United on Monday afternoon and is expected to shortly complete a £17.8m transfer from Atlético Madrid which will push Sir Alex Ferguson's summer spending past the £50m mark.

The Daily Star and The Mirror embarrass themselves by basing their reports on this round a blanket that was used to try and shield De Gea from photographers, rather than on the actual signing.  The less said the better.

Quotes from Nani about wanting to stay make the papers this morning.  Here from the Daily Star:

“Of course I have to welcome everyone they sign, I think Manchester United is a fantastic club. When they bring in new ­players, they know if it is good for the team or not, and this has to help them. It is good for the team, we want more players to help us to win trophies. ...I’ve been there at United when Cristiano was there and ­Cristiano was one of the best players in the world. At the moment I have no worries about Young.”

The Mirror report that Newcastle have joined Sunderland in wanting to sign Darron Gibson.

Finally The Guardian report that Ryan Giggs managed to single-handedly increase Twitter's traffic last month, I'm not sure whether the two facts in this paragraph are connected, but if they are, Giggs is obviously very popular among the older ladies:

Twitter's UK audience jumped by a third between April and May as thousands of users tweeted about Giggs's alleged extra-marital affair. The number of female pensioners using the site also doubled month on month, according to online traffic figures released by UKOM/Nielsen on Monday.