With that fee and the wages Barca are paying their top players you can be sure they won’t be in for De Ligt.
Frenkie de Jong| Off to Barca - Confirmed
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Vidal
De Jong
Busquets
Rakitic
Arthur
Rabiot (possibly)
Someone has to be leaving.
De Jong
Busquets
Rakitic
Arthur
Rabiot (possibly)
Someone has to be leaving.
The fee is insane, but in line with what's been going on in the transfer world. I mean just look at Lukaku in comparison to Pogba. Or Dembele in comparison to Pogba.
De Jong isn't some guarantee, but these days potential is what matters. De Jong has the lot for a DM and it looks like Barca is looking at the reward over the risk.
De Jong isn't some guarantee, but these days potential is what matters. De Jong has the lot for a DM and it looks like Barca is looking at the reward over the risk.
Hopefully. I would be pretty upset if Barca manage to get him by selling off Coutinho.
Yeah maybe they see him like a Mbappe like talent. PSG, City and Barcelona were after him, and all of them were willing to pay 75mEuros for him. Must be special. I haven't seen him play apart from one or two internationals.
Pulisic was 60 million pounds wasn't he? This seems in line with that given how highly rated he is. Fees have gone mad now.
They have the biggest wage bill in football, they just spent close to 270 m last year, they just keep on buying every talent out there still. Where is the money coming from.
And the problem like with us as always..we are no where there interested without a permanent manager and without a Dof. It will take ages for us to hire one till all clubs plant foot on the ground with all the talents out there.
Yeah, it's just huge fee and then you have teams like Barca, PSG, City all wanting to sign him, especially PSG and Barca going all the way in bidding war.
Barcelona surely need to sell. They're spending obsenely on their midfield.
If there is any truth to this then they are crazy spending that amount on him, especially when De Ligt is the better out of the two.
Imagined it and can't eat for days now. Loved the three dots at the end of the post as well, implying arousement at the fantasy...
Arthur and de Jong now, fair fecks to Barcelona. They don't mess around.
@Damien Didn’t get an alert for the above quote, just found it randomly while browsing the thread. Weird, what could be the reason?
What are they going to do with Coutinho, Rabiot, Busquets, Arthur and De Kong?
Coutinho being off might just have some substance to it
Coutinho being off might just have some substance to it
Coutinho is their wing option. In midfield, they have Busquets, Arthur, Rabiot(is it confirmed?), Rakitic, Vidal, Boateng and now De Jong. So I'm guessing Vidal and Boateng will leave for sure. Rakitic might also leave. The rest will be their core.
They have Messi, Suarez, Dembele, Coutinho and Malcolm for their front 3. They'll probably let go of Malcolm.
It's just their defense which is a bit thin at the moment. But even there, they have pretty solid options. Their team is absolutely stacked with top talent. It will be really hard for Madrid to compete with them especially in the league.
There's Vidal, Rakitic and perhaps Alena too. I think it is just Barca signing him so another club won't. I don't think they need him right now.
Just got two defenders recently .
Missed that. Who did they get? Barca are now the new Galacticos. They don't hesitate to spend. Don't know how they are going to sustain this as they have some of the highest wage bills in the world too.
Probably because I edited in my reply to your post
God damn, Barca aren't messing around.
Semendo and lenget.
Boateng can play there too.
Forgot they just signed him.
Pretty sure that they've signed Boateng as a cover for Suarez. He has been playing as a center forward for the last 2 seasons and they need someone with his skillset there as opposed to a more traditional striker like Alcácer.
What In Rainbows said - he edited the post in. Edits don't get alerts.
Barca is the right move for him, I've never seen the lad play but if he's as good as people say then the idea of him and Arthur in a midfield for the next 10 years isn't fair 
Good move for him. Better than PSG
Barcelona was always the best fit for him.
It's a lot of money but he looks a certain star going by the reports about him. Wouldn't be an unfamiliar move by Barcelona - didn't they do the same with Neymar?
Sometimes you just fork out the necessary amount on rare commodities, provided their talent is obvious enough.
Sometimes you just fork out the necessary amount on rare commodities, provided their talent is obvious enough.
He was always going to end up at Barcelona. I would have liked to see him stay another year at Ajax, or Barcelona loan him out for a year, so he's sure to get regular football.
Yes he was!
He plays in the left or as DM?
Pretty sure I’ve read that their Nike/Rakuten deal is the highest in world football. And last years spending was fueled by the PSG Neymar millions.
If that should fail, they have an unlimited credit line at Caixa de Catalunya.
Insane money for this kid. I imagine Ajax wouldn't settle for anything under 100M+ for de Light now.
I thought he would be the perfect replacement / understudy to Busquets but just read that he signed a new contract to 2023 and is only 30 so a good few years left in him. Rakitic possibly but they play in different positions so shouldn't have an impact.
That's a ridiculously good midfield though!
Have the feeling he'll flop or at lease under perform given the expectations.
There's a lot of competition and coming from a much weaker league would need time to bed in. He doesn't strike me as having the character to succeed at Barca this young.
There's a lot of competition and coming from a much weaker league would need time to bed in. He doesn't strike me as having the character to succeed at Barca this young.
The last fee makes me doubt the links with PSG.
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