Spanish newspaper Marca have a goalkeeper on their Tuesday front page. That goalkeeper is linked with a move to Real Madrid, but it’s not David de Gea.
Instead it’s Kepa, Athletic Club Bilbao’s 22 year old stopper. Kepa’s contract runs out in June 2018, and Marca believe he could be an option for Madrid.
With renewal talks not going wonderfully in Bilbao, there’s the chance Kepa could leave for free, but Marca suggest Madrid would be willing to pay some kind of fee anyway.
David de Gea gets a mention, and it’s not in any way positive for a Real Madrid transfer. Yes, the outline interest remains there on both sides, but Madrid haven’t been willing to go to €70m+ and the goalkeeper doesn’t seem to be pushing for it at the moment.
Gea, and potentially risk another public transfer fail to Manchester United.
Of course, all of this is good news for Jose Mourinho, that Madrid are looking at others options would suggest there’s less De Gea intention.
Chelsea’s Thibaut Courtois gets a mention, but like it often is, the leading reasoning is the Chelsea goalkeeper would quite fancy returning to Madrid.
