Scouting the Top Four Options to Replace Keylor Navas at Real Madrid
By Alex McVey
Given Keylor Navas’ unexpected decline in form, Real Madrid’s President, Florentino Perez, will likely be on the lookout for a new keeper next season. Who will Madrid pursue to replace Keylor Navas? Alex McVey looks at four potential options.
After a messy almost-transfer out of Real Madrid that was cancelled at the last minute due to supposed “technical difficulties” involving the infamous transfer fax-machine, Keylor Navas stayed in Madrid and became one of the team’s stalwarts.
Making last-ditch saves reminiscent of Iker Casillas and stopping a number of clutch penalties, Navas has been a reliable presence over the course of the past two seasons in an otherwise-shaky defensive setup for Madrid.
This season, however, Navas has had a much harder time. Missing a big chunk of the opening part of the season recovering from surgery, Navas has suffered a precipitous decline in form, going from one of the best clean-sheet keepers in the world to being barely able to keep a clean sheet at all.
It seems an inevitability that Madrid will be in the market for a new keeper this summer. Who will they get to replace Keylor Navas? Let’s look at four possible options.