Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has hit out at Manchester United once again over their mishandling of David de Gea’s failed transfer to the Spanish giants this summer.
Perez has stated that Manchester United took over 8 hours in order to send Madrid the contracts for the deal, something that led to the Spanish capital club failing to finish the paperwork in time.
The president then went on to hit United in the personal regions, insisting that the Old Trafford club lacked experience in the transfer window and that they were no longer the force they once were.
United released a statement this week detailing their exact movements on deadline day, leading to the move falling through. However, despite its legitimacy, Perez is not happy.
“I think what they lack is experience,” Perez said while speaking on Spanish radio station Cadena Ser.
“It happened last year with [Fabio] Coentrao, exactly the same. And it happened with Ander Herrera and Athletic Bilbao. They have a new team and they lack experience.
“We have missed out on players before, Franck Ribery and Patrick Vieira for example, but what is surprising is that someone wants to do a deal and only starts the process 12 hours before.”
“It’s the inexperience of the new people in charge.”
“We have worked with them before [without problems], with Peter Kenyon and David Gill and with Sir Alex Ferguson. We still have good relationship with Manchester United but this is the exactly the same as happened before with Coentrao and Herrera and we thought they would have learned from what happened in the past.”
“We couldn’t buy him before because Manchester United didn’t want to sell him. De Gea is very upset because he was very excited about coming.”
“Manchester knew the player didn’t want to renew his contract with them. It wasn’t a sporting issue, just that the player had said that he wanted to return home to Spain.”
“At 13.30 [on Monday] Manchester United had all the papers but they took eight hours to return them. The player had made a big effort and we couldn’t leave him stranded.”
“I don’t think there was any mischief on the part of Manchester United, I imagine that they had a lot of work to get through and needed to resolve other matters first. There wasn’t a great deal of time left.”
“It’s unfortunate but it’s what happened. I don’t want to lay blame at anyone’s door but we cannot understand why they would need eight hours or why they wanted negotiations to take place in the 12 hours before the markets closed.”
[Quotes via the Telegraph]