If you really believe United deliberately cocked it up... football clubs just don't work that way. United will want their £30m.
We did our bit. The blanr is soley on the Spanish ****s. I recall some chap said Spanish clubs were messers....
Nope. None at all. He's made his bed. I wouldn't be against him playing again mind, but he will have to earn it. Some reports state we will ask him to sign a contract if he wants to play. Being a euro year he may wabtbto be Spain's number one next summer.
Imagine it's just genuinely leaving things too late... These deals will need whole teams of lawyers + admin staff... So I would assume Perez etc decided to strike a deal too late for all the parties (inc Navas).
DDG will be seething. He's on £35k a week. That's around £1.8million a year. United offered him a contract that was reported to be £200k a week, just shy of £10.5million a year. He turned it down for a club that couldn't be arsed to submit the paperwork confirming his transfer!
That would be a good idea from a United perspective to get ££ for him next year, though I can't see him happily agreeing to it and not sure he would play well if forced to sign a new deal under those circumstances.
I wouldnt be surprised if he did sign an extension. A clause written in allowing him his move when Real are free to buy again (could be 2 years now) for an agreed fee. He's a professional football and not some 5 year old kid throwing a tantrum as his mum won't let him get any donuts. If, as it seems, he stays, he will play again.
When was this ban announced? How can DG then transfer to Real next summer . free transfers do not count?
Navas is the one to feel sorry for in all this, imagine being forced to leave a club to allow somebody else in and at the last minute the twats forcing you out fail to do the paperwork. I bet he is really in the mood to carry on as No1 for them.
Lots of rumours circulating in Madrid. One mentioned by Balague is that a survey of Real fans a few days ago revealed that 80% (!) of the fans wanted Navas to stay and didn't want De Gea. Most also felt that DG was not worth the 40m Euros deal. So it looks that the Madrid hierarchy was going against the fans in buying DG. There was therfore last minute negotiation to get the price dropped to 35m. and it could explain the reluctance of the club to push the deal through. DG must feel like a mug being taken in by the Madrid conmen.
A decent keeper is mentally strong, enough to ignore extraneous events, they have to be. Navas is but De Gea isn't, a bit of transfer talk and his mental state is shot, and people claim someone that mentally weak is one of the best in the world?
