Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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He should sell it by the pound then, and Barca will be the richest club in the world.
Yeah, selling club properties, that's a right thing to do.
We've already sold ours to the glazers
Nah they’re in massive trouble. Selling off future incomes because they have no money and are hundreds of millions in debt whilst spending that money on 34 year old strikers?
Unless something drastic happens I can’t even imagine where Barce will be in 3 years time.
Truer words haven't been spoken today.
that's very goodYeah, Barcelona does what's best for the political narrative of their current president, not what's best for the club. As bad as the Glazers are, we can at least be sure they won't ruin the club, since it's their asset. Laporta spends the future away to win the next election, leaving his successor a club in financial ruin. Ironically, that's exactly what Bartomeu did, but Laporta somehow escapes the same vilification. For now
If this is true, big if, this is the biggest news in this saga for a very long time.
Big day today.
Yeah that's never happening. That would be too sweet of a deal for Barcelona who wants the player off their books. That would total €100m+.
I’m feeling very confident again today.
Yeah, really wish we were in Barcelona's shoes now..
It’s very cute how potentially crippling loans are called levers or palancas with this club and equally adorable how some of their fans fight tooth and nail to convince themselves that everything’s fine and this is just free money
Barcelona are taking out pay day loans to pay for Miralem Pjanic’s wages, while borrowing more money still to pay for their shiny new toys
One thing that isn’t being spoken about anywhere near enough is the rate at which @Brownie85 is catching @Berbaclass . 4000 posts between them
Someone really had to pick up the slack after our hero fellOne thing that isn’t being spoken about anywhere near enough is the rate at which @Brownie85 is catching @Berbaclass . 4000 posts between them
We've already sold ours to the glazers
No we didn’t, Martin Edwards sold his property to the stock market, the Glazers bought that property.
Laurie Whitwell -
“Senior United sources continue to reject claims that De Jong is not interested in moving to Old Trafford. They view the primary obstacle as financial rather than emotional — wages owed to the player and payments due to his agents. Much rests on that judgment being correct.
Alternative views abound that De Jong would prefer to stay at Barcelona or go to Chelsea, a team in London as well as the Champions League. A wrong call by United there, even if based on Ten Hag’s guidance, would be calamitous to this summer’s recruitment.”
No doubt, Frenkie is in the bag.
Im fed up with this saga
If this is true then I’m more sure this is us than Chelsea.
I just can’t imagine them willing to give 17 million to a player in a position they are quite stacked in.
Today I'm so certain he's going to join us that I'm already in the process of lowering my expectations of his impact in his first season.
If the news about us willing to pay the deferred wage is true, then I think we’ve been played by Barca and bitten at the Chelsea interest. And at this point, I’m absolutely fecking fine with that
That’s not the red cafe way. If he doesn’t win POTY then he’s a flop, surely?
Balon d'Or or bust
I'd like to think this is nearly over. Just pay up, make Ten Hag happy, move onto the next one.
Man even if FdJ comes I would argue that those around us - Arsenal, Spurs, West Ham etc have all strengthened better than us. Thats not even to talk about Pool, City and Chelsea...
This will be done in the next 9 days, before Barcelona have to register their players
Oh god, we're setting him up to fail. Someone start a thread already! "Frenkie was a bad signing"
But we've got EtH. Gotta count for something
That's the spirit.
Just focus on us, why worry about West Ham.
Maybe I'm alone, but I just want to enjoy watching us again, hopefully that leads to top 4 and a trophy. Last few years have been tumescent and miserable.
So 100 million on De Jong, wow I’d be amazed if they got value out of that deal as his wage is astronomic as well.
If he performs as he is expected to on the pitch, surely that’s value?
AccountantsCafe.
Everyone thought we strengthened much better than all of the above last Summer, after just finishing above all of them, including Liverpool.
So argue all you like, it means nada.
Is Frenkie de Jong the only fecking midfielder in this entire world? We're gonna pay the transfer fee and the deferred wages on top of that too? Not a good deal at all. Hopefully he is worth it but I doubt it.
No one is paying deferred wages. No one is this stupid.
I don’t think he actually improves them very much. Where as at United I’d say he’d get us into the champ league.
Caf: we neglected midfield for so long, Glazers penny pinching, embarrassing
Also Caf: 100m for one the best midfielders around, the one our new manager wants to build the team around? Madness!
Also Caf: 100m for one the best midfielders around, the one our new manager wants to build the team around? Madness!
We should not be so dumb to do that but then again this club is so desperate….
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