A report on Twitter has David de Gea’s transfer from Manchester United to Real Madrid collapsing.
The documents did not arrive on time!!!!!! Presentation was ready. All agreed. But as it stands de Gea stays at MUFC!!
— Guillem Balague (@GuillemBalague) August 31, 2015Guillem Balague works for Sky Sports, AS, and Yahoo Sports.
No official report on the transfer has been seen from either club.
UPDATE
In the aftermath of the failed transfer, both Real Madrid and Manchester United have issued statements. Real Madrid has said that it “did everything that was necessary at all times to get these two transfers completed." While Manchester United claims that it “acts appropriately and efficiently in its transfer dealings.”
According to both official statements. It seems that both clubs were aware that there were deals in play for David de Gea and Keylor Navas. Manchester United claimed that these deals were “dependent on each other.”
Twenty minutes before the Spanish trade deadline (23:40 Spanish time, 22:40 British Standard Time), Manchester United claims that “major changes to the documentation came through to [it from Real Madrid] which immediately put the deals at risk.”
Subsequently, Manchester United claims that it didn’t receive the “documents that are needed to cancel David’s contract” until five minutes before the Spanish transfer deadline.
Manchester United then claimed that it then accepted and uploaded de Gea’s trade agreement at 22:58 British Standard Time, three minutes later. The club went on to say that “Real Madrid didn’t upload David’s documents onto TMS in time (Manchester United did).”
According to Real Madrid, whose statement came out first, Manchester United didn’t submit the final documents of de Gea’s transfer until 00:00 Spanish time, the trade deadline. Real Madrid then says it tried to send its share of the documentation after it received United’s, but it was not possible for it to do so, because the deadline had passed.
So, it appears both clubs are blaming each other for the botched transfer; they each say that the other didn’t submit certain paperwork in a timely fashion.
So it appears that Balague was right: “the documents” did not arrive “on time.” Which documents and from whom, we may never know.
