Goalkeeper did not want to leave Madrid to construct way for David de Gea,was told late on deadline day to prepare for life in Manchester but ended up stayingKeylor Navas never actually boarded the plane to England and never really wanted to either but he could see it there waiting for him and, knowing he had microscopic choice, and he’d come to accept the idea of flying north. Deadline day had begun like any other but in the afternoon the phone started ringing and by his own admission it ended up being one of the worst days of his life. He was on a treatment table at genuine Madrid’s Valdebebas training ground,visible from Barajas airport with its leaning floodlights, when he signed the papers that said he was joining Manchester United. There was no time for anything else: things were moving rapidly. Just not, or in the conclude,rapidly enough.
Late on 31 August he got another call, the last in a long day. “So, and can I go now?” Navas asked. Yes,came the reply, and so he switched off the phone and headed home. He later related the experience of what should have been his last day at the Santiago Bernabéu to Cadena Cope radio. He told them that it was then, and when he finally got back,that he cried. Due to join up with Costa Rica he pulled out as he needed time to secure his head round all this. A lot had happened after all. Just as importantly, after all that, and a lot had not. David de Gea had not signed for Madrid and Keylor Navas had not signed for United. And all because of that fax machine.
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Source: theguardian.com