Rio Ferdinand backs David de Gea to request Manchester United transfer after Dean Henderson blow

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Get the latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Rio Ferdinand has backed David de Gea to look to leave Manchester United should Dean Henderson end the season as the club's first-choice goalkeeper.

Henderson was preferred to De Gea in a Premier League game for the first time on Sunday, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer opting to start the 24-year-old against Brighton & Hove Albion.

Ferdinand can't see his old teammate being content with a back-up role going into the 2021-22 campaign. Ferdinand told BT Sport: "You’ve got two options: you fight for your position or you say, ‘that’s me, I’m off to somewhere where I’m seen as a number one’. "If Dean Henderson finishes this season as the