The three clubs who should sign Keylor Navas

FT Desk

12 Aug 2022 12:21 BST
4 min read

Keylor Navas in action for PSG. — © ProShots

PSG have made Keylor Navas available for transfer with Gigi Donnarumma installed as their No.1. Napoli have emerged as a likely destination, but they should face competition from around Europe.

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Navas is rightly in demand. A three-time Champions League winner with Real Madrid, the Costa Rican had to share playing time with Donnarumma at the Parc des Princes last season, but still kept 10 clean sheets in 26 games.

Napoli have reportedly targeted Navas ahead of €10 million-rated Chelsea second choice Kepa Arrizabalaga, but the following three clubs could also do with a world-class 35-year-old who "won't accept being second choice," according to PSG coach Christophe Galtier.

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Manchester United

David de Gea no longer looks like the goalkeeper Sir Alex Ferguson signed over Manuel Neuer in 2011, and he has lost his status as Spain's No.1 Athletic Bilbao's Unai Simon.

De Gea has been a shot-stopping force of nature in his time, and still commands plenty of loyalty among the Red Devils' support, but he only saved 69 per cent of shots on his goal last season - worse than more half of players in his position in England - and it may be time to move on.

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Juventus

Juventus could also be in the market for a goalkeeper, and they have bigger cachet than Napoli despite what fans at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona might tell you.

Wojciech Szczesny has been the No.1 in Turin since arriving from Arsenal in 2015, but Juve have ceased to be serial winners in recent seasons, giving up the Serie A title to AC Milan and Inter over the last two campaigns. He only saved marginally more shots than De Gea - 72 per cent - as the Old Lady finished fourth last term.

Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund could do with a Champions League-caliber goalkeeper. Perennial runners-up to a Bayern Munich backstopped by Neuer in the Bundesliga, they still pull up a chair to European football's top table almost every year.

But their incumbent in the position, Gregor Kobel, is beginning to run out of time to make good on his promise as he approaches his 25th birthday in December of this season. Kobel's BVB hemorrhaged 52 league goals last season - the second worst tally in the top half of the table - and Navas would help shore up their defence.