What United and Real claim happened in the most toxic row of the transfer window

Sunday - evening David de Gea flies to Madrid, in the anticipation that he will join Real the following day, ahead of the Spanish transfer deadline (11pm BST).

Monday - 12.39pm Real Madrid say they forwarded documentation relating to David de Gea and Keylor Navas to Manchester United to complete the two transfers.

8.42pm Manchester United say they returned transfer documents for both players to Real Madrid, a claim backed up by the Spanish club in their own statement. Real say minor modifications had been made and were accepted.

10.32pm Real send back the player documentation to United. They say they had obtained the signatures of both players; United claim they had failed to include the signatory page.

10.40pm With just 20 minutes until the deadline, United say they received "major changes to the documentation...which immediately put the deals at risk."

10.55pm United claim they only received documents needed to cancel De Gea's contract with five minutes until the Spanish transfer deadline. They say they had still not received Navas' documentation at this time.

10.58pm United say the transfer agreement was sent back by them, uploaded onto the Fifa transfer system (TMS) and accepted – all before the 11pm deadline. Real claim this happened at midnight and only included information for the De Gea deal, not Navas.

Tuesday - 12.02am Real say they received the completed documentation two minutes after the transfer deadline, so when they tried to access the TMS to complete the deal, were unable to do so.

12.26am Fifa and the Spanish league authorities receive the completed paperwork for the De Gea transfer, well after the deadline has passed.

9am The Spanish league confirm that Real did not complete the necessary paperwork in time. There are suggestions that the club's president Florentino Perez is poised to appeal.

12.30pm News leaks out that De Gea's move to Real Madrid is definitely off after the La Liga club decide not to appeal.

1.12pm Real release their 10-point official statement, putting their side of the story and saying United had effectively blocked the transfer from being completed.