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UNITED STATEMENT ON DE GEA TRANSFER

Manchester United notes Real Madrid’s statement on the attempt to sign David De Gea and sell Navas to Manchester United. The club feels compelled to provide some clarification with the following facts. 

- 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

 

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Might not play first team football again until 2017

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Wait perez basically done this:

Offer as much as possible for a player.

Wait until the club accepts your offer.

Click on offer contract.

On the contract negotiaton page, click on left hand menu and then on news (under managers name)

Click on the player and withdraw bid, then immediatley reoffer £0

Using the back button, go back to contract negotiation screen.

Offer contract and if player accepts, hes yours for free.

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Wait perez basically done this:

Offer as much as possible for a player.

Wait until the club accepts your offer.

Click on offer contract.

On the contract negotiaton page, click on left hand menu and then on news (under managers name)

Click on the player and withdraw bid, then immediatley reoffer £0

Using the back button, go back to contract negotiation screen.

Offer contract and if player accepts, hes yours for free.

WTF?

Is that from the latest FM? That glitch is fucked.

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Oh sh*t yeah CM4. Swear Parma were beasts them time deh.

Anyway hope Sir Dave gets some play time this season. Romero is too sh*t.

 

Hasn't done shit apart from look smug as fuck in the stands to start ahead of Romero , this season.

 

Has to work for his place.

 

Every time he fucks up , which is rare but every time he does , @ the back of every supporters head they will thinking Dave is scheming for that move.

 

is he ? asking him won't help cause the guy has absolutely no vocal chords

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Manchester United have said Real Madrid only had themselves to blame for failing to sign goalkeeper David De Gea, having concluded that the Spanish club may have deliberately sought to abort the deal which would also have brought Keylor Navas to Old Trafford.

A bitterly acrimonious dispute between the two clubs was provoked by the Spaniards issuing a statement suggesting United were to blame for the failure to register De Gea’s move in time with the Spanish La Liga. But a bemused and astonished United provided a detailed rebuttal, revealing that they have secured the support of the Football Association to demonstrate that they worked professionally on the last day of the Spanish transfer window, on Monday. The club, who believe manager Louis van Gaal will win over De Gea, said were “delighted that… fan-favourite double Player of the Year, David De Gea, remains a Manchester United player.”

Behind the public choreography of the dispute, there is a sense of astonishment at United about the way the deal started to unravel on Monday. Despite months of conjecture and rumour, Real did not make any contact with United about De Gea until the last morning of their transfer window. They did not table a formal bid for the player until around 12.45pm, having spent the morning repeatedly urging United – through agent Jorge Mendes – to name their price for the player.

United reiterated that they were not selling and it was only after the low initial bid – €15m plus Navas – had been rejected and a number of minimal add-ons offered that a serious sum of €25m plus Navas was tabled. Aware that they would lose De Gea on a free transfer next summer and conscious that Navas was enthusiastic about a move to Manchester, United agreed to enter into negotiations

Yet despite speaking at length to Navas, agreeing the terms of a transfer and having a private jet ready to bring him to their Carrington training base for a medical, there was - by the United version of events - a catalogue of problems which suggested that Madrid had second thoughts. They included:

- Madrid insisting that Navas should not fly to Manchester and did not need to be put through a medical, with chief executive Jose Angel Sanchez rejecting United’s demands for one until such a time that United had to agree to an exchange of medical information instead

- Navas’ agent Ricardo Cabanas disappearing out of telephone contact with United for three hours on Monday afternoon, until such a time that it was too late to fly the 28-year-old to Manchester for a medical

- Real sending De Gea’s transfer document to United minus the signatory page at 22.32pm, less than half an hour before the deadline

- De Gea’s transfer documentation being sent to United again – only this time with a significant technical change to the deal which made it far less attractive to United. This “mark-up”, which was certainly enough to be a deal-breaker, reached United with a mere 20 minutes to go before the transfer window closed

- Real only sending the documents needed to cancel de Gea’s contract to United at 22.55pm – five minutes before the deadline

By the United version of events, Madrid were entirely in control of the entire deal, by which De Gea’s £22m departure was dependent on Navas’ £7m arrival. Cabanas and Navas spent a substantial part of Monday afternoon at the Real training ground, putting them in a position where Sanchez could have pushed the agent into action. But United found Cabanas incredibly slow and unresponsive.

There was a sense of bafflement around Old Trafford as to why Real might not apparently want the deal to progress after all – an impression that increased when the Spanish club did not take up United’s offer of FA support today, and instead quickly conceded defeat.

It does not seem entirely inconceivable that a Marca poll published on Monday afternoon, which indicated that 90 per cent of fans may be against the Navas/De Gea deal, influenced Real president Florentino Perez. To have withdrawn directly from the deal at that stage could have alienated Madrid from De Gea and jeopardised attempts to buy him next summer.

United certainly did not find Navas reluctant to join them. The Costa Rican seemed to justify their belief in him when he contact them today disappointed to find that the move was in jeopardy and asking what could be done to resurrect it.

United are confident that De Gea will be won around to throw himself into United’s Premier League and Champions League campaign this season. The need to prove himself ready for the Spain side at Euro 2016 and what is described by United insiders as the player’s own immaculate conduct in recent weeks both lead the club to feel there will be no recriminations between the No 1 and Van Gaal.

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David De Gea was on the verge of performing a dramatic about-turn last night by agreeing a new contract with Manchester United in what would be a huge coup for Louis van Gaal.

The extraordinary development came on the day that The Times revealed that Van Gaal had been confronted by senior players about his regimented training methods, which they believe are stifling creativity after a stuttering start to the campaign.

Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick, the United captain and vice-captain, aired concerns on behalf of a squad craving more freedom. The prospect of Van Gaal persuading a previously disgruntled De Gea to commit his long-term future to Old Trafford would be a huge boost for the manager.

Jorge Mendes, De Gea’s agent, was at United’s Carrington training base yesterday to negotiate a new deal for the goalkeeper and to smooth over any issues with Van Gaal only 11 days after the Spaniard’s proposed transfer to Real Madrid collapsed. De Gea is likely to sign a new five-year contract, which could be announced imminently.

Mendes met Van Gaal and John Alexander, the United secretary, while Ed Woodward, the executive vice-chairman who was at a Premier League shareholders’ meeting in London, was thought to have been in contact over the phone.

De Gea, 24, had been determined to leave United for Real, but the subsequent collapse of a move to the Bernabéu on transfer deadline day and the uncertainty that it presented appear to have forced a change of heart.

Florentino Pérez, the Real president, had cast doubt over whether the Spanish club would still seek to sign De Gea when his existing contract expires next summer. “He is there and we have three very good goalkeepers,” Pérez said.

De Gea is expected to be restored to United’s starting line-up against Liverpool at Old Trafford tomorrow after missing the club’s first six matches of the season. Van Gaal had not considered De Gea for selection after saying that the goalkeeper was “not eager to play” against Tottenham Hotspur on the opening day, a claim that De Gea disputed, but the various parties moved to address any issues yesterday.

Despite bringing De Gea onside, The Times understands that misgivings the players have over aspects of Van Gaal’s management go back to last season, when the manager was urged to lay off Luke Shaw. Van Gaal publicly accused the England left back of being out of shape when he joined up with United’s squad for pre-season after his £28 million move from Southampton last year.

Still 19 at the time, Shaw’s team-mates saw that he was being badly affected by the criticism and are believed to have encouraged Van Gaal to adopt a different tactic. The defender hit the ground running this season and Van Gaal notably lauded the player in pre-season, even suggesting that “this could be the season of Luke Shaw”.

Players are also understood to have reservations about lengthy video sessions overseen by Max Reekers, the club’s performance analyst.

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