Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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And there it is ….50,000 posts down the pan
How do you figure? It's all bloody opinion. Theres absolutely no proof he wants London or UCL, it's basically using Chelseas location and the fact that it's believed all top players want CL.
That took a while. The Times Sport article that's associated with this was published 5 hours ago at around the same time as Ornstein's Athletic article.
Probably used the info from Ornsteins article, unless Barca have done a nice little brief of their own... hmmm
Chelsea obviously know about the money owed to FdJ when coming into this transfer, they’ll just pay the cash and get this done by Monday.
They wouldn’t open talks with Barce if they wasn’t going to get this sorted out.
Expecting ‘United looking at alternatives to FDJ’ stories any minute now.
They wouldn’t open talks with Barce if they wasn’t going to get this sorted out.
Expecting ‘United looking at alternatives to FDJ’ stories any minute now.
Chelsea have no better chance at the PL than we do tbh.
We've finished ahead of Chelsea in the League Table 3 times out of the past 5 seasons.
Source article?
Source article?
Honestly, I admire your optimism. But to be trying to claim this is all a ploy to make us pay up seems a bit naïve at this stage. Ornstein isn't some mouthpiece for Barcelona that will do their bidding. Laporte and Boehly have had meetings together, I'm pretty sure that they discussed how to resolve the FDJ situation. As journalists have said today, neither of those two teams want this to be a drawn out saga and want a quick resolution. Chelsea aren't going in blind, their owner has been sat having meals with Laporte. This would have been discussed extensively.
Apply the same logic to us agreeing a fee.
Frenkie de Gone.
At least Arnold and Murtough got a couple of decent visits to Barcelona out of it.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...-bid-50m-for-manchester-city-target-fcvmjw2b9
It's more of a brief comment in there than anything new
Same thing its been used for thus far.....jizz rag
The rule is believe the opposite to what Miguel Delaney says. So it's encouraging news.
There’s always time to mock oppo clubs, that’s what football fans do. We’ve been shite for 10 years doesn’t mean I didn’t take great satisfaction in seeing Liverpool bottle the quadruple.
By that logic, there is no proof he wants to come here. No proof we are interested. No proof we ever bid for him.
I doubt it, they probably paid for Laportes meal.
Arnold's going to get a couple decent visits himself again
You’ve just answered your own question
Warchest gone then.
We haven’t been able to get this sorted for whatever reason and it’s taken 3 months. The 17m fee owed to FDJ won’t be an issue for Chelsea they‘re spending upwards of 200m this summer this wont stop them.
They know about this fee and are coming in at this late stage they aren’t here to wait 3 months for it to get sorted.
I'd be astonished if he goes to Chelsea. Have we really been doing all this without assurances from him that he'd join?
How do I get down from this train?
There isn't any proof at all that he doesn't want to come here, theres no proof he does. Everything is media speculation, nothing more, nothing less.
The simple fact is, if ten Hag wants him, we'll see in the next couple of hours/days what he decides to do about all this. If he stands no chance, then we'll back away and move on.
I just read the article from Todd Roddy and it's mainly about Cucurella's move to Chelsea with a small snippet thrown in about de Jong wanting to join Chelsea due to champions league football.
They haven’t gotten within 19 points of a title in 6 years ”fighting” my ass.
If you don’t join Liverpool or City, you are clearly in a toss up for best worst.
Bring Woodward back.
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Wow,what a disaster of a window. Ed is gone and we are still f**King clueless. Hope Fdj goes to Chelsea and somehow we finished above them in 4th. Frenkie be crying for champions league then. But at least London is lovely and sunny....
If it was that easy we'd have worked something out.
Murtough probably trying to be clever.
Ah this may be the new replacement for "if we are still going for him now, we must have had encouragement from the player"
Yeah. They've reportedly been interested in FDJ for a while. Then Boehly has meetings and meals with Laporte. Then Chelsea step up interest in FDJ. No way they haven't hashed out how to make the deal happen.
Regarding the bolded...we've had stories that we're suddenly worried we're light in attack and need to spend there. Stories about Neves. Reports that we're now weighing up whether to continue to pursue FDJ. It's already happening. We'll quietly move on and try to get other deals done.
Really odd that Chelsea would be in for him at all. They're stocked in that position and they have promising players like Gilmour and Gallagher. Utterly pointless being a youth player at Chelsea.
They need a striker and they're about to spend £80million-ish on a midfielder.
I still hold hope that this is just talks or enquiries, which happens all the time.
They need a striker and they're about to spend £80million-ish on a midfielder.
I still hold hope that this is just talks or enquiries, which happens all the time.
It really wouldn't surprise me if we went back and suddenly found a way to cover the wages and give a full fixed fee too.
As i say, if ten Hag wants him, he'll make another attempt to get him. If he thinks it's unlikely, then he'll just back off and we'll leave it as we have done twice already
It was a yes I’ll come to Manchester until Chelsea came in… probably.
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