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La Liga's revolutionary app that will avoid repeat of De Gea transfer collapse

A Football Manager and 2001: A Space Odyssey crossover has taken hold of La Liga and it is all working smoothly so far

In the three years since a dodgy fax machine cost Real Madrid the marquee deadline day signing of David de Gea and exposed La Liga’s Flinstones-esque organisation, Spanish football has been living in an episode of Black Mirror. Except this one is rather uplifting.

No one has forgotten the image of Keylor Navas waiting at the Barajas airport for De Gea's documents to arrive at the Santiago Bernabeu offices to embark on a new adventure in England after Madrid and Manchcester United reached an agreement on August 31, 2015.