Costa Rica keeper Keylor Navas a Premier League target

Costa Rica star stopper Keylor Navas is being linked with the likes of 2014/15 Premier League title hopes Liverpool (7/1) and Arsenal (9/1), as well as Everton (9/2 top four chances) and Atletico Madrid, following his fine performances at the World Cup.

The 27-year-old currently plays for Levante, and made 17 clean sheets in 37 La Liga games last season, but it is his displays in Brazil that have really put him on the world map. His contract runs out next summer and he can be snapped up for as little as £6.5m, which is his release clause.

So far at the World Cup, Navas has managed to concede just twice, after playing against footballing giants and past major tournament champions Uruguay, Italy, England and Greece, despite his side being given no hope before the finals.

Costa Rica are remarkably now in the last eight, where they next meet the Netherlands, and are priced at 6/1 to win in 90 minutes, and 18/5 to qualify for the semis. Navas’ nation are priced at 11/2 to keep a clean sheet in normal time.

The Central Americans, meanwhile, are 40/1 chances to somehow pull off what would be arguably one of the greatest sporting achievements, by winning the World Cup.

Navas’ best performance was perhaps in his last match against Greece, where he managed to fend off 13 shots on target, and only conceded in the 91st minute, when Costa Rica were down to 10 men.

That brought the game to extra time, and ultimately penalties, where Navas was the hero, making an unbelievable stop to prevent Theofanis Gekas’ well hit spot kick out hitting the back of the net.