When Thibaut Courtois joined Real Madrid from Chelsea, the possibility of David De Gea ever moving to the Santiago Bernabeu seemed over.
His chance had come and gone. That night in 2015—the one when a dodgy fax machine was blamed for failing to document the terms of a £29.3 million move from Old Trafford—would forever leave us wondering how he would have fared in Madrid colours.
Yet here we are, seven months on from a £35 million deal that took Belgium international Courtois to the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, and De Gea is once again being linked to them, per John Richardson of the Sunday Mirror.