After David De Gea failed to complete his transfer, Real Madrid came out claiming that it was to the fault of Manchester United as they “did everything necessary to sign De Gea”.
Turns out they didn’t. Manchester United’s account of events proves that the impetus was on Los Blancos the whole time. United did everything that they had to in order to complete the transfer.
Sky Sports News pundits suspect Madrid wanting to get a late, cheaper deal for the keeper, that backfired on them.
Now Manchester United get to keep their two time player of the year, but potentially miss out on £20+ million as De Gea could now leave the club on a free at the end of the year.
Manchester United’s Statement is below:
• Manchester United did not seek contact from Real Madrid for the sale of David. David is a key member of our squad and the club’s preference was not to sell.
• No offer was received for David until yesterday.
• At lunchtime yesterday, Real Madrid made its first offer to buy David. A deal was agreed between the clubs, which included Navas being transferred to Old Trafford. The deals were dependent on each other.
• In the last several hours of the process, with Navas at the Real Madrid training ground, Real Madrid were controlling the documentation processes of David, Navas and Real Madrid. Manchester United was in control only of the documentation of Manchester United.
• Manchester United sent transfer documents for both players to Real Madrid at 20:42 BST. David’s documentation was returned by Real Madrid to Manchester United without the signatory page at 22:32 BST.
• At 22:40 BST, minutes before the deadline, major changes to the documentation came through to Manchester United which immediately put the deals at risk.
• Only at 22:55 BST were the documents that are needed to cancel David’s contract received by Manchester United from Real Madrid.
• At this point Navas’ documentation was still not returned by Real Madrid.
• At 22:58 BST, the transfer agreement was sent back by Manchester United, uploaded onto TMS and accepted – all before the deadline.
• It is our understanding that the deals couldn’t happen because:
– Real Madrid didn’t upload David’s documents onto TMS in time (Manchester United did)
– Real Madrid didn’t upload David’s documents to the Spanish league in time, per reports it seems some 28 minutes after the deadline
• The fact that Manchester United filed the papers on time was acknowledged by the Football Association, who offered to support that claim in any discussions with FIFA. The club offered this assistance, as well as its own timestamped documents to Real Madrid but they have chosen not to go down this route.
Manchester United acts appropriately and efficiently in its transfer dealings. The club is delighted that its fan-favourite double Player of the Year, David de Gea, remains a Manchester United player.
Hopefully De Gea sees this and infers that Real Madrid weren’t very serious about signing him. Signs a big 5 year deal at Old Trafford, then ends up costing Madrid even more money next season.
One reply on “De Gea Fail IS Real Madrid's Fault”
you would like to think IF DDG is sensible and is advised properly that he will see how little Real Madrid regard him, ie if they wanted him that badly just stump up the fee…they’ve paid bigger fees before…but they have tried to play games…he should now buckle down get his first team spot back and come Dec send a message by signing a new contract with United…at the same time lets hope we draw them in europe quarter or semi and that DDG saves a pen to put them out….what goes around….