David De Gea’s long mooted move to Real Madrid collapsed last night after a paperwork fiasco which resulted in the failure of the transfer to be completed before the Spanish transfer deadline.
The longest running transfer saga of this transfer window took the most bizarre of turns last night, when the Spanish transfer window slammed shut. Manchester United and Real Madrid had agreed on the transfer of David De Gea in a deal which involved Keylor Navas moving the other way. However, due to failure to file paperwork on time, the deal could not go through.
Both the parties are playing the blame game and it is still not clear who was at fault for the debacle. Some reports even suggests that the transfer may be allowed to go through today, however, nothing concrete has materialized at the time of filing this report.
After a disappointing day for Manchester United fans, where they lost the services of Javier Hernandez and Adnan Januzaj to Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund respectively, the Red Devils faithful had resigned to lose their star performer. The day went from bad to worse for the fans with news breaking out that the club had reportedly agreed to outlay close to a 80m for the services of 19-year-old French striker Anthony Martial.
Manchester United fans took to Twitter to express their delight at the failure of the transfer to go through and also hailed the wicked genius of Ed Woodward who apparently had a hand to play in the whole fiasco. Some fans even mocked Fiorentino Perez, the Real Madrid president for his failure to complete the deal.
Here are some of the best tweets following the De Gea fiasco:
Sending over the De Gea documents like… #FlorentinoPerez #MUFC #RealMadrid #DeadlineDay pic.twitter.com/VixIjLtjEm
a MrTransferTalk (@MrTransferTalk) September 1, 2015
Now we are hearing that United did send the documents on time but in a format that couldn’t be opened at the LFP. Windows 95?
a AS English (@English_AS) August 31, 2015
De Gea’s party https://t.co/4X6inZOTiq
a EJ (@EjArctic) September 1, 2015
Ed Woodward ‘sending over’ the David de Gea paperwork… #MUFC pic.twitter.com/Vhr9bvJW6C
a Patrick (Pa) Ward (@Pa_Ward1) August 31, 2015
De Gea’s plane right now https://t.co/AMjRUTFqWz
a FootyHumour (@FootyHumour) September 1, 2015
Possibly the best GIF ever. Unlucky Florentino #DeGea #OneMinuteLate pic.twitter.com/7bqvQx7ZqM
a MUFC Peoples Person (@PeoplesPerson_) . September 1, 2015
Leaked footage of Woodward and LVG, moments after sending the De Gea documents through 1 minute too late. http://t.co/G5jJsb4j66
a Arsenal (@ArsenaI_UK) September 1, 2015
Man Utd staff currently trying to send the correct paperwork across…#Mufc #DeadlineDay pic.twitter.com/1rfosdc8sS
a Paddy Power (@paddypower) August 31, 2015
Six years late but Fergie finally sold Madrid that virus.
a Alex Shaw (@AlexShawESPN) August 31, 2015
If Real Madrid miss out on De Gea, will Benitez’s anti-United speech this time be “I want to talk about FAX” ?
a Rob Harris (@RobHarris) August 31, 2015
#MUFC fans, wouldn’t you prefer to have sold De Gea for A?30 million rather than have him rot in the reserves and go for free? Will he play?
a Footy Accumulators (@FootyAccums) August 31, 2015
This De Gea thing has to be the funniest thing ever , funnier than when Odewminge drove his car and left him in the parking lot
a Ehab Ibrahim (@EhabIbrahim77) August 31, 2015
>Madrid receives De Gea documents. > Opens them. >”Please complete on of the following surveys to get this file.”
a Not Keyur (@FletcherLad) September 1, 2015
Watching the De Gea thing unfold pic.twitter.com/CRSCz3OT4f
a Zeets! (@_Zeets) August 31, 2015
At Old Trafford right now there’s some poor intern screaming about how nobody ever showed him how to save as PDF. #mufc #DeadlineDay
a Paddy Power (@paddypower) August 31, 2015
Ed Woodward is an absolute legend.
a Chloe Hoyle (@ChloeHoyle__) August 31, 2015
RM(11:50):we want De gea MU(11:54):what? RM(11:55):send the documents MU(11:57):what RM(11:59):Send De gea’s documents MU(12:01):Oh ok
a Footy Jokes (@Footy_Jokes) September 1, 2015
