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Real blames United for De Gea’s transfer fiasco
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REAL Madrid has blamed Manchester United for its failure to sign Spain goalkeeper David De Gea before Monday’s midnight transfer deadline and said it did everything needed to complete the transaction.
De Gea faces an uncertain future after the deal to join Real, which included Costa Rica keeper Keylor Navas moving to the English club, was scuppered when the paperwork did not arrive at the Spanish league in time and the data was not entered into FIFA’s Transfer Matching System (TMS) as required.
Real said in a statement on its website yesterday the bureaucratic snafu, which prompted widespread ridicule on social media, was not its fault and detailed exhaustively how and why the necessary documents were not ready until it was too late. United had not initiated talks on a possible De Gea transfer until Monday morning, the statement said.
After initial agreement was reached, Real said it sent the contracts to United at 1:39pm Spanish time. Eight hours later they were sent back with “small modifications,” which Real said it immediately accepted. Real then sent the contracts signed by De Gea and Navas back to United for its signature at 2132 GMT, 28 minutes before the deadline.
United entered the details of De Gea’s transfer into TMS at exactly midnight Spanish time but did not register the Navas deal and by then it was too late for Real to access the system.
TMS gave them a last chance to register the deal around half an hour later and Real also sent the documents to the Spanish league even though they knew the deadline had passed.
“Real Madrid did everything necessary, and at all times, to complete these two transfers,” Real’s statement concluded.
A spokesman for United said the club had no immediate response to Real’s statement.
Also, French Ligue 1 club Nantes said that its Senegal international defender Papy Djilobodji had joined English Premier League champion Chelsea on a four-year deal. Chelsea made its move for Djilobodji after failing in its protracted attempts to sign England international John Stones from Everton, which itself signed Argentine defender Ramiro Funes Mori.
West Ham took Cameroon midfielder Alex Song on loan from Barcelona for the second straight season.
Liverpool completed the restructuring of its forward line by offloading Italian striker Fabio Borini to Sunderland. Borini signed a four-year deal.
German club Wolfsburg broke its club transfer record by signing Germany midfielder Julian Draxler from Schalke. Draxler signed a five-year deal estimated at 35 million euros (US$39.25 million), which would make it the second biggest transfer inside the Bundesliga after Mario Goetze’s 37 million-euro (US$41.5-million) move to Bayern from Dortmund two years ago.
In other deadline-day moves, Bayer Leverkusen signed Mexico striker Javier Hernandez to a three-year contract from Manchester United, which also sent Adnan Januzaj on loan to Borussia Dortmund.
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