Now would be a nice time to announce this chap, considering the turd we laid at Selhurst Park this afternoon.
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Media silence, interesting.
I hope he didn’t watch.
Could possibly be playing his last game for barca tonight(by Spanish time).
They need money for lewa
Obviously. Ince was bigger and much more muscular than Keane. Technically he was quite average though.
He’s had my heart for 3 years.
I think so too. Much better range of passing. Fletcher was bigger though and probably a more tactically intelligent player.
Anyone of Caf's body language experts who watches the match and can give their verdict so far?
Yeah, he's depressed.
OK put a % on that then haha
95%
Hello it's Gerard Romero on the CAF
He might be phoning ten Hag up, "are you sure you can fix this, looks fubar?"
Did he wave?
A man of literature, can you elaborate further as to his internal monologue as he took one last look at the beautiful Nou Camp and the City of Barcelona before heading to Europa League Man Utd where we hate our players because they're cnuts?
I love this player, to me he's one of the most talented midfield in the world.
But boy he's not the one you need if you want leadership on the pitch, when things go wrong he's transparent. It was the same under Koeman, the guy looks like a ghost and stares at his shoes while his team is getting wrecked left and right. He doesn't seem to show any gut.
But boy he's not the one you need if you want leadership on the pitch, when things go wrong he's transparent. It was the same under Koeman, the guy looks like a ghost and stares at his shoes while his team is getting wrecked left and right. He doesn't seem to show any gut.
He sad.
He’s not a leader for sure. But let’s get the technical players first that suit the manager system because what we have in midfield right now are totally crap.
Yeah he can provide the technical ability, just a matter of finding some leaders which isn't easy
Arsenal is a joke. That's why they sold him for free and also lost the champ league spot.
Back to topic, I hope Frenkie moves here.
People used to associate Bruno and Maguire with "leadership quality". In the end it was moot because even Roy Keane would struggle when the overall game plan is bad. Make the plan clear, and have our players follow it first. Good results will bring good faiths and over time it snowballs into "confidence". Then you will suddenly find a lot of these players have faint leadership image with them because of how confidently they express themselves on the pitch.
People last night said City had no leadership on the pitch and did not replace Kompany properly when City was 0-2 down. But just 1 goal came in and suddenly the game flow changed dramatically, goals came like an opened floodgate. By the time it ended, people were singing songs on how KDB dragged City through the line. See how just a bit of confidence can make the players change?
So I don't put much stock in this "leadership nature" stuff that we love to point at the players in great form. It's subjective and rarely indicates things correctly. Cohesive teamplay, good confidence...will put the players in place, not a "Roy Keane".
You talk about the idea that a team can only truly have one player dictating the tempo of a game, yet you refuse to acknowledge the principle that a team can only really have one deepest midfielder. If two players in that central midfield area want to be the deepest midfielder, it is detrimental to at least one of them.
The configuration of the Ajax midfield was very much ordinary - there is no exception to the rule for me to accept here.
You are now getting hung up on Xavi, Busquets and Barcelona. I first mentioned the Barcelona midfield because you were unable to grasp that Schone can be a deep lying midfielder or deep lying playmaker, and be called either a no.6 or a no.8, and be a second function midfielder. I then provided you with two groups of players who could all be described as deep lying midfielders/ playmakers to highlight the difference between first and second function midfielders. Instead you cherry picked a few and went off on a tangent about tempo dictators.
Your 'evidence' proves nothing. Your screenshots marry up with what I have said regarding the Ajax midfield, the other images are silly and the video is by a moron. This is what I wrote in this thread weeks before our conversation started:
If I had the inclination to find out where to source screenshot from games and then how to post them I perhaps would but currently I'm in the dark and not going to make the effort to change that.
Busquets is a remarkably intelligent defender, but De Jong is also great at reading and anticipating, has a bit more mettle and is the complete opposite of Busquets in that he is an athlete with a Fernandinho/ Kante like ability to cover ground quickly.
Also, are you sure you remember Alonso with Modric, and what happened after he was voted La Liga's worst signing?
Even today, I'd rather face an angry Paul Ince than a fired up Keano!
He definitely wasn't, not sure why you'd think that? Unless you were born in 2004!
Yeah he hasn’t watched him. Ince was tier 1.
Maybe it's those who only saw his Boro and Wolves days - even then though, I thought he was still pretty decent
Looks like Barca financial condition is set and now they dont need to sell players.
He's selling Barcelona?
Agree with this. You need the correct talent.
Even with Keane and others, we saw what happened when recruitment under SAF had a bad spell.
We saw what happened under Moyes despite having title and champs league winners.
Just get good players who naturally and instinctively work hard. Everything follows from that.
As long as de Jong fits the above criteria I couldn't care less what his leadership qualities are.
Looks like Barca financial condition is set and now they dont need to sell players.
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He needs money for the stadium, most of the money will go there. They still pay way to much salary to the players for new players to arrive.
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He needs money for the stadium, most of the money will go there. They still pay way to much salary to the players for new players to arrive.
Great info in that tweet, everything is so clearly said
But if that is true, it can only be to sell some of their TV rights percentage. 900 mil, 30% for 10 years?
Death, taxes and ehsanul trying to kill transfer hype.
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How does one lead to the other?
They still want to bring in new players for next season and they still need to have some players who were a part of the old wage structure leave. The amount quoted in the tweet will go into the still huge amount of debt they have and probably paying off the high interest loans they secured so they could make moves in January.
1) That tweet is as clear as mud.
2) Even if they're getting a 1bn 'injection', then they'd have known this was coming and are still open to selling De Jong
2) Even if they're getting a 1bn 'injection', then they'd have known this was coming and are still open to selling De Jong
Correct me if i’m wrong but that deal is to pay off loan which was due. Its more like refinancing rather than a commercial deal. Barca most likely parted away with some television income percentage for that.
Original issue of player registration and fund will still remain
Original issue of player registration and fund will still remain
The posts you reference are full of a load of nonsense. Wouldn’t bother
if Woodward was still around, we'd have Lewandoski and O.Dembele signed up by now. *sigh*
The discussion about his position has generated more pages than your average Wumming 
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