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Top 5 Football Transfers That Didn’t Happen in Time

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Football Transfers That Didn't Happen in Time
Football Transfers That Didn't Happen in Time

Football Transfers That Didn't Happen in Time

Top 5 Football Transfers That Almost Happened

During Deadline Day there some football transfers that nearly happened and many football transfers that never happened. Another transfer window is in the books, and squads around the country have been chopped and changed, and set in stone until the window opens again in the New Year. And while a host of deals were completed, and vast amounts of cash changed hands, some deals dominated the column inches, but never materialised, whatever the reason.

Top 5 Football Transfers That Didn’t Happen in Time

Silly Season looks into top 5 deals that didn’t quite happen in time! Here are 5 major deals that did not happen, but were very close.

5) David De Gea (Manchester United to Real Madrid)

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The De Gea Deal is one of the Transfers that didn’t happen in Time. The Spanish stopper earned United a host of points as they scraped back into the top four last term, and back into the Champions League this season. However, rumours persisted that he was unhappy, homesick, and wanted to move back to Spain. Even his other half chimed in, saying she did not like Manchester.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid were after a replacement for legendary keeper Iker Casillas, and saw De Gea as an ideal replacement. And all the signs were that, with Euro 2016 on the horizon, a move to the Bernabeu would be a better fit for the Spanish number one.  Despite the ten-time European Cup winners chasing De Gea, United would not budge.

United manager Louis van Gaal was adamant that De Gea was not going anywhere. But De Gea has not featured for United once this season. Van Gaal claimed that De Gea was unsettled by all the transfer talk, and Sergio Romero has been between the sticks for the Red Devils for all of their league games so far, and the two-legged Champions League qualifier with Club Brugge. Romero, though, was at fault for Bafetimbi Gomis’ winner for Swansea at the weekend, and calls may well increase for De Gea to be recalled after the international break.

The deal was so close to being done just before Deadline Day started, but while United got their paperwork sorting just before the Spanish deadline passed, Real did not, and the deal was called off by UEFA. Real had planned to appeal this decision, but since decided against it. De Gea will be staying at Old Trafford, at least for another couple of months.

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