It was late on Tuesday night in southern Madrid when David De Gea arrived in the press room at Getafe's Coliseum Alfonso Perez. He and his Spanish team-mates had just been beaten 1-0 by Georgia—the 137th-ranked side in the world—in the team's final warm-up game ahead of Euro 2016, and he'd conceded the solitary goal.
The effect of it was odd. De Gea hadn't been at fault, but the simple fact he'd conceded seemed to curiously complicate things. It added to the feeling of doubt or uncertainty, the existence of which had been bemusing even before this.
So De Gea sat and responded to questions on whether he knew if he'd be Del Bosque's first-choice goalkeeper at this summer's UEFA European Championship.