When you think of Europe's best goalkeepers, Levante's 27-year-old Costa Rican international Keylor Navas probably would not feature on most people's top 20, let alone top five. But this scouting report will shed light on Navas' outstanding season thus far.

AS English on Twitter : If you knocked a priceless Ming vase out of a tenth storey window you would want Keylor Navas underneath. He's on fire tonight.

World-Class Shot-Stopper :

Navas reflexes are a key factor in him leading La Liga in saves made (95).
In a 3-2 win over Sevilla, he pulled off an outrageous diving save to deny Ivan Rakitic from heading home after a pin-point cross from his teammate Coke.

Navas made seven saves that game.

Speaking of seven, Navas conceded seven in Levante's first league game against Barcelona.
But in his second game against the Catalan club, he made four important saves that were crucial to Levante clinging to a point in a 1-1 draw against Barca last month.

He stopped Barca deep-lying forward Lionel Messi from scoring in a one-on-one situation.
The ball rebounded to Barca centre midfielder Xavi, whose shot was blocked by Levante
centre-back Juanfran, which deflected straight to Messi, and his header was
palmed away by Navas.

While Messi was flagged offside for his second goal-bound attempt, Navas would not have known, so he showed extraordinary quickness around his penalty box in reacting to all three plays.

Messi, who has a 65 percent shooting accuracy (14 percent higher than Real Madrid left attacking midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo), generally converts clear-cut goalscoring chances.

However,Messi failed to do so against Navas on that occasion, which was an example of his world-class shot-stopping.

That was what happened to Real Sociedad centre forward Imanol Agirretxe, who latched on to teammate Antoine Griezmann's header but watched his snapshot get snuffed out by Navas.

Navas went on to make seven saves to help seal a 0-0 draw against Sociedad.

On three occasions, Navas has made seven saves in a league game and has registered five saves or more in nine games—40.1 percent of his matches this season.

its finalized, imo the worldcups 3rd best player (neuer and james beeing 1 and 2) is going to Bayern for 10M, a bargain, but its gonna be the bench which is sad for a great keeper like this, La Liga lose 1 good keeper, but if we know one thing its that La Liga will still be a league with an abundance of world class keepers

He's going to Bayern? WHAT A WASTE OF TALENT. He's never starting ahead of Neuer. He should've been bought by Atletico. He'd be an excellent replacement for Courtois.

Huge surprise! I don't understand this move. He must have promised time other wise i don't see why he would be Ok with being in the bench at 27. I would of much rather him at Barca over Ter Stegen.

If Costa Rica had an army he would've been the general.

This is what I think (at the moment)

1. Neuer

2. Navas

3. Courtois

4. Sirigu

5. Reina

^I agree with your top four, but I'd put Begovic/Tim Howard instead of Reina at 5th.

Navas to Bayern Munchen.
Caballero to Man City.
Bravo to Barça.

Hope this World cup oppened some doubtful eyes ;).

Europa League as well ;).

The world cup also shows that clubs' scouting teams are rubbish. Otherwise they would have scouted these players before the world cup. I know the world cup includes many aspects that help scouts see how players deal with world class players and how to handle pressure, but I swear that some of the coaches I knew were always able spot talents from first look, or this is just based on my knowledge.

@gaga - Good point

Top Goalkeepers in Europe (at the moment)

1. Neuer

2. Navas

3. Courtois

4. Sirigu

5. Howard

No point going to Bayern (not anything against them), but he will probably play 5 to 7 games a season with Neuer playing deservedly rest of the games. Should've gone to a top 6 team in top 4 leagues, that doesn't have proper GK yet.

top keepers in europe

courtois
neuer
navas
cech
bravo

My favorite GKs that are still active: (in no order)

• Cech.
• Courtois.
• Buffon.
• Neuer.

Honorable mention:

• Tim Howard.
• Navas.
• Raïs M'Bolhi.
• Lloris.
• César.

Signed for Bayern when they got Neuer, bench here u go..

fully agree with decentK

At this price Atletico should have signed him instead of obliging Benfica to give their main keeper, who would be more expensive by the way...

best keeper ever

peter schmiechel

Well, Bayern do need a good back-up keeper.

Tim Howard says Hi, btw. :)

Navas is going to Real Madrid.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2694248/Keylor-Navas-seals-8m-Real-Madrid-guiding-Costa-Rica-World-Cup-2014-quarter-finals.html

Real Madrid seems to be wanting this guy. I wouldn't mind him or Raïs M'Bolhi to come and join us for me both top notch goalkeepers being actually very cheap. What would be the best business is M'Bolhi but let us see what will happen.