Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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No, the reason I ignored it, is because your whole point is splitting hairs based on the fact that the FDJ deal can still happen, when its looking extremely likely that it wont.
Rather that than be a bootlicker.
Nearly 100 pages in 4 days since the 1000th page and basically zero updates. I'm all for a bit of muppetry but this is beyond insanity!
Not to mention a RB since AWB seems to be a ghost wearing an United shirt.
I hope and think that Frenkie realises this and its all about getting what he is owed.
The way they are running the club its bound to happen!
Its basicly a circus! Frenkie cannot possibly forgive this behavior.
It sounds like things are moving now and Barca are at the negotiating table to decide the payout.
Still fully expect this to happen.
Still fully expect this to happen.
Frenkie Friday is coming!Because barca seem to love screwing with the chelsea this summer
The fact that Tuchel is admitting they’ve been approached to buy De Jong, but he refuses to meet the 67 million fee they quoted seems like pretty big information.
Is that really what you guys have already offered?
Man, I know you guys want him, but part of me hopes he successfully refuses to leave, and Lewa, Kounde and the others are told not to worry, they can be part of the official Barca fan community til they can be registered next year. Oh, and their wages will be “deferred”. No problem, you can trust them.
Is that really what you guys have already offered?
Man, I know you guys want him, but part of me hopes he successfully refuses to leave, and Lewa, Kounde and the others are told not to worry, they can be part of the official Barca fan community til they can be registered next year. Oh, and their wages will be “deferred”. No problem, you can trust them.
Or you know, Chelsea doesn’t want to bail out Barcelona considering they had 2 of their targets stolen despite reaching an agreement with the other club.
I thought i had outgrown staying in a toxic relationship but i keep on coming back to the Frenkie thread!
It's not splitting hairs, it's fact. You said:
De Jong is taking a paycut at Barca - He's not.
He backs himself to get into the XI - Never been mentioned anywhere.
Moving to Utd would be 'giving up' - where've you got this from? except your own opinion?
We didn't wrap up earlier deals because of the FDJ saga - false, we've signed two midfielders.
We are no closer to FDJ - again, we are as close as can be without having him in a red shirt - we've agreed to sign him from his club, it's now down to him.
Murtough is doing nothing - clearly, that's why we've signed 3 players and have agreed a deal for a world class midfielder.
Honestly, at least back yourself up with something.
Friday will be big
Big decision incoming
@FrenkieFriday
Big decision incoming
@FrenkieFriday
Yup this popped up as well, so I'm hoping they're atleast talking about the potential payout.
why have @ and # on tweets started being bold and underlined on here?
Pretty obvious he was never going to take a paycut. Over the past few days I've seen people call Frenkie a fool, stupid, and plenty of other things.
Let's make this clear again...Frenkie will leave and come to us, he just wants to get paid what he is owed!!!
Let's make this clear again...Frenkie will leave and come to us, he just wants to get paid what he is owed!!!
How is that HIS problem? It’s not. It’s the clubs problem. Maybe they should have thought of how the feck are we going to meet our salary cap before going buck mental in the transfer market? They are trying to get the stable to fit after buying a bunch of new horses. Terrible forward planning.
Again how is this the players fault? They agree a contract with him and then a new one just last season to help them out, which he gladly did. Where does that stop? When they need more new players next window will they ask for more wage cuts again? Oh look frenkie is at fault he won’t reduce his salary enough.
It’s World Cup year, he won’t be happy sitting on the bench taking less money for the 2nd time. They can’t even keep the word of the contracts they just made.
pay the lad what’s owed and let him leave. That’s how it’s resolved. Not by bullying.
Best word describing Barcelona is - Entitled.
They feck upp and want everyone else to bow down and fix their mistakes and the expect it.
Could be huge, offered by Barca or by agent?
By Barca means nothing, by agent would change this entire saga. :/
I just feel like the fans should be calm about this.
De Jong is arguably the best we could find and go for in such a position and we are not in the best of states yet either.
Id rather go for him and fail rather than have those states where we target absolutely rubbish players.
De Jong is arguably the best we could find and go for in such a position and we are not in the best of states yet either.
Id rather go for him and fail rather than have those states where we target absolutely rubbish players.
If that's the truth then ETH should be fuming. After all both Ole and Mourinho had a bigger transfer budget in their first year then he did. Now let's tackle your points
Martial was always going to be difficult to sell. He was struggling with United and he struggled at Sevilla. I believe that the club counted on Ronaldo for the next season for 4 reasons.
- we had bigger fish to fry then the STK department
- Ronaldo is still a half decent striker, Martial was here to stay and Rashford can play as a STK if needed
- Ronaldo was portrayed as a club legend. Surely he wouldn't leave us in our time of need?
- Even if he wanted out no club would be silly to spend money on a 37 year old striker especially since he's on a huge salary
Turned out that Ronaldo is a cnut after all.
Ronaldo might be able to start for Portugal in 3 months time if he's benched for the next 3 months. However 3 months without match game will mean that he'll be incredibly rusty. If Portugal does badly (we're not talking about France or Spain here) and Ronaldo returns to OT only to be benched again then his career is basically over. No one would want a whiney 38 year old striker who had already burnt bridges with 2 clubs and who would ask for silly money.
Now back on the transfer market. There are some decent options who would cost us around the 20m-30m mark, from Kalajdzic to Depay right to Moussa Dembele. Meanwhile Belotti is on a free while I am pretty confident that Chelsea would listen to a loan deal for Werner if needs be. I am not expecting the STK problem to be sorted now. What I don't want to see is our club at the mercy of an unhappy Ronaldo. God forbid if that had to happen. So while I agree that we don't roll out the red carpet to him on his way out we must also protect ourselves just in case he causes trouble. United must be in a position to isolate him if necessary.
Oh no, that's actually kind of clever. Makes up some amount of those deferred wages (because he gets paid the 20M+ this year, so one year's worth of deferred wages are being paid) and Chelsea do want him next season.
You mean this, right?
There is absolutely zero chance Chelsea risk losing another potential target - that's after the fact they don't need him. They will not be interested in Frenkie and Bayern are not going to spend that money/pay him as much as he is on.
Where did Tuchel say that?
I said this a month ago or so! I think this makes very much sense (if FdJ is reluctant to commit his future to Utd).
SPORT are just trolling United fans at this point
I think you guys are laughing too soon. Chelsea specifically do want him next year when Jorginho's contract ends.
By structuring it as a loan, Barca will get Chelsea to pay one year of FdJ's inflated contract (deferred wages). He will give up on the other year's worth of deferred wages I presume. So it's meeting in the middle between the club / player.
If this is an option though I don't understand why we won't be in for it unless the rumors were true and FdJ doesn't want to go to a club that's not in the CL.
Chelsea don't need him and none of their adjacent journos have ever mentioned any interest in him, it's come entirely from Barca friendly sources trying to drum up a market for him.
Bayern have also had an expensive summer already and would never pay the wages he's currently earning at Barca. They didn't want to blow up their wage structure for Ronaldo, they sure as hell won't for FDJ
Bayern have also had an expensive summer already and would never pay the wages he's currently earning at Barca. They didn't want to blow up their wage structure for Ronaldo, they sure as hell won't for FDJ
I just don’t really get why they’d need/want him. It’s always nice to have good players but surely they want another CB (hence the Fofana links) and a ST? Also I’m assuming Gallagher might now get game time if they don’t loan him out.
It's because it's bullshit. We've agreed a 70m+ fee, but now they just want to loan him out? If a loan was an option it would make perfect sense to come to us - he gets the most game time in a WC year and can go back to his beloved Barcelona on his fat wedge. It's just sport nonsense.
None of the Chelsea reliable journalists have gone anywhere near this story
Haha, I stand corrected.
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