Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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The starting line up in the Brighton game will take of that for some but stay strong it's not over yet.
Possible but very very unlikely. Then how much do they spend on getting a striker? They need a forward player more than a midfielder. Fofana will likely be signed for £80m or so i bet. They're not going to go out and spend another 85m on de Jong then god knows how much on a forward are they? It's just not feasible
Massively so. It would be a disaster of a first summer for a new manager and regime that was meant to be a fresh start.
It's over 9000!
you’re just upset that he will choose the righteous, og yank dollars, not brash new yank spondoolies.
Yet it looks like exactly what they’re going to do.
We can’t compete with that with our owners, they’re just not that bothered.
Boehly hasn't a breeze what he's doing. He's playing real life football manager, which seems incredibly fun for him, but there's no rhyme nor reason for half of his targets. He's just saying "well if United/Barca/Liverpool want that player, so do we". They have a midfield United would dream of and he wants to blow a fair amount of his war chest on a player who while being incredibly valuable for a team like United, would only provide marginal improvements for Chelsea. Think they will fall out of the top four this season and Tuchel will lose his job at some point although not sure if we will be strong enough to capitalise on this if we don't get Frenkie and another forward.
Ummmmm why would Duffer be in denial? He supports Chelsea? There is no way he'd be hurt haha.
Yes these guys have great credibility in the game, but they can also fall to false information that the clubs want out there. You don't honestly think everything a club wants out there is the absolute truth do you?
Things are happening
Frenkie friendzoned beta **** United for months, only to blow chad Chelsea on the first date. Sad.
Of course you don't know for sure if they are liable to change their mind. But the line all summer from this transfer window from reputable sources has been that his wish is to stay at Barcelona and his salary situation. Now Chelsea interest is more concrete, all of a sudden he is now open to moving? It doesn't take a genius to read between the lines and United should have set a deadline for the transfer or at the very least, have a contingency plan ready, not consistently brief how relaxed and confident we are that it will happen.
You're right that it isn't a great situation. It's a total and utter disaster.
Just Very hot? Not very very hot?
We have already said it will be De Jong or no one. It that the right decision? Probably not but that will be on the manager I agree. This does however justify chasing the player until it is absolutely off the cards if that is their thinking.
"Zero reason to look for retweets"? Come on.
And I don't want to "be hurt"? I'm a middle aged man, the last time I was hurt about Chelsea not signing someone was in the mid 90s and we were linked to Matt Le Tissier! I barely know what position this dude plays.
People were glad to see the back of Ralf but he was desperately needed upstairs to avoid nonsense like this where manager has all the power to call shots. Isn’t that we were trying to get away from?Serious questions need to be asked if we have wasted our entire summer courting after one guy for Chelsea to swoop in in August and get it done just like that. What kind of indication have the club had that FDJ would want to leave? Because that is legitimately the ONLY reason they would have held out for so long. If that is at ETH's request, then he also needs to answer for that serious miscalculation. I doubt FDJ would have sold us up the river like that, so that only leaves one possible explanation. Sheer incompetence!
Ralf was right about the team and the club structure. The people at the top just don't want to make the changes necessary to move the club forward.
That's all this club is now. Jobs for mates and a profit first, football second mentality.
This isn't Manchester United. Its a hollow shell of its former self
I love how many muppets were throwing themselves off cliffs about a Chelsea hijack, only to be saved by @duffer !
They are not going after any expensive forward at the moment. Most of their links are for Aubameyang, Ronaldo and Bellotti I think. And they could pay for them easily if Werner goes out
Just sign him then you chav twats so we can move on. Hopefully then we'll get the message and start acting serious in the market.
Any midfield will do as long as it massive improves us and the way we play. I say specialist DM as we haven’t 1 DM in the team which is stopping us from playing a natural 4-3-3… city and Liverpool both have DM to protect there defence which allows the other mids to help out in attack. I know we’re playing Fred quite deep at the minute but he shouldn’t be the long term solution.
In the main I agree.
Can't get my head around the "make our own" stance as a fall back scenario: how long would this take, and where is this option going to be found? No candidates have presented themselves thus far, who aren't at least two loans away from realizing even their PL potential. And as the clock ticks down lets just hope that the body of incomings ( whatever that constitutes? ) can be done in quick succession whether FDJ is the king-making transfer or not.
Moss Side > Knightsbridge obviously.
This is what i mean... why are we still saying stuff like that if he wants to go to Chelsea? I just don't get it.
IF he doesn't want to come, we need to just admit we're done and walk away. The fact we're not just makes this whole thing so confusing
Why are you so sure Chelsea aren't in for him?
That isn't the case though is it, nothing to do with Chelsea's name cropping up.
They can't register players,economic levers haven't helped and they have until next friday to register players.
FDJ has stood his ground because he won't take another pay cut and shithouse Barcelona are running out of time.
The article isn't so positive. He says ETH willing to sign nobody else if necessary and that FDJ wants to stay at Barca.
Just trying to bring a little critical thinking and reason to the table. Its what Chelsea fans are most famous for after all.
*FDJ holding up a Chelsea shirt after signing for them next week*
@JamesAlanRobson: United are relaxed and remain confident a deal can be done
United are comfortable with the position regarding de Jong
In the same article he says ETH is happy to carry on without further signings. So it's probably just a case of, if it happens then great. Otherwise we'll go with what we've got.
... amateurs!
Immediate Jorgihno replacement for me. The talk that the negative way Jorgihno often plays annoys Tuchel is what makes this a possibility to me. De Jong can give you the technical nous and defensive capability like Jorgihno or better, but also can create and link up going forward in a way Jorgihno doesn’t.
Who knows what will actually happen, but I could see it actually being an excellent fit.
Generally speaking people think we would need to move on from either Jorgihno or Kante soon anyway, so this would just mean keeping Kante for me and allow Jorginho to move on to Juve or somewhere else.
I see Conor as a more forward player in our current system, so that would give us Kante, De Jong, Kovacic, Carney in the middle.
If it doesn’t amount to anything, Kante , Jorgihno, Kovacic, Carney is t exactly a bad spot.
Not really reliable. Whilst a bunch of Tier 1's are saying Chelsea is looking increasingly likely. Maybe this is to speed up United because Barca need the transfer to be wrapped up next week, or maybe the T1's are just right.
I'm just glad it sounds like it will be over next week. There should definitely be more discussion though about Chelsea's spending this window. Absolutely ludicrous and is going to contribute as much to inflating the market as any recent transfer.
It's not the best source to be fair, and I see know reason to believe that this info comes directly from us, rather some speculation on the journalists part
How much more do we want to feel “encouraged” before this is resolved? We just love monitoring and being encouraged. We’re a courageous club.
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