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@Ayoba we can fetch you an abacus if you need one?
Infact Dr @Bebestation might be able to help with his TARDIS
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Yes I thought this
@Ayoba we can fetch you an abacus if you need one?
Infact Dr @Bebestation might be able to help with his TARDIS
How? It's like playing hard to get with somebody that hasn't even looked at you yet
If things weren't already complicated, the introduction of Marcos Alonso to this endless saga makes it even more complicated. Alonso wants to go to Barca, Chelsea want to sell him. Don't know if that will work out in our favour.
It's always been. Specially in the Premier League and PSG.
How? It's like playing hard to get with somebody that hasn't even looked at you yet
I’ll explain again.
De Jong and his agent will have more power to negotiate a bigger deal with United if United believe he has other clubs after him or at the table.
If United know it’s their offer or nothing then De Jong and his team wouldn’t be in a position to push things as much.
Does a loan move work for Barca's levers?
It would help, but don't think they can live without the transfer fee and getting rid of his deferred wages
Reading comments by Chelsea fans on twitter and there are a lot who don't want De Jong as they don't think he is better than what they have.
Not 100% sure, but i'm sure i read ages ago that any deal for Alonso (and then Azpi) were going to be done outside of any potiential FdJ to Chelsea transfer (back when there was very slight interest).
I imagine that'll be the same now, deals would be done seperately if needed. I'm still thinking that this is mostly Barca trying to play mind games to get United to panic and cough up de Jongs deferred wages. Thats just my opinion though, links seem much much stronger in Spain than they do over here
By all accounts the salary won't be an issue, we'll offer him what he wants/can reasonably expect. They have leverage already ie he stays at Barca on his current deal. I think you're grasping at straws if you think the Chelsea stuff is cooked up preemptively ready for salary negotiations.
We're desperate, all in on him. He'll get what he wants.
I’m not grasping at anything. I’m not overly arsed. It’s just common sense really.
Cooked up or not it’s in both Barcas and De Jongs interest if there’s more than one club chasing.
I wonder if Frenkie isn't answering his phone anymore?
I wonder if Frenkie isn't answering his phone anymore?
Mitten also said hes led to believe Frenkie prefers London.
and that he enjoys pie, mash and liquor for his tea
The Dr only concerns himself with ineffable conundrums
Hello Sport my old friend.... what shit you got for me today?
Exactly.
I think that everyone saying that has that from someone’s opinion.
Huge news
Yeah, they absolutely don’t need him and he probably wouldn’t improve them significantly, if at all.
We should tell barcelona that if this goes to deadline day then we'll be reducing our bid by 20m.
If they resign Gavi they can’t register him. Like Dembele.
Yeah but Mittens sources tends to be good ones.
Harry Redknaps source may well be different to his, and the Catalan outlets also say Chelsea is preferred.
All we have is "surely we would not wait this long if he didnt want us"
Not news. This may be the longest saga we've had on the caf - it may also be the most boring.
Not true really.
What about the media saying Chelsea won't offer the same fee or salary as us? How does that help put pressure on us? If it's all games from Barca then why was there a journalist saying that? And why have Barca offered him for less than we've agreed? It just doesn't make sense.
This is just spin. Barça cultists truly believe that no player would ever choose any club over theirs. So if/when Frenkie does leave, they can tell themselves he only did it because of his agent's wishes.
It doesn’t really matter what the media say.
They’ve suggested literally every single possible outcome so far.
Think he'd definitely be a starter over Jorginho/Kovacic but I don't think he should be a priority signing for the club this summer.
I consider our current midfield options to be more than fine for another season. A rebuild will likely be needed next year should Kante, Jorginho or even both move on but without some outgoings I don't see the need for De Jong this year.
If (a big if) the club do go for De Jong, the only reasoning that makes any sense is they just want to plan in advance so the midfield doesn't have to go through a similar overhaul in one go as the CB department this summer where more than half of current options left simultaneously and it became very difficult to get good players in when everyone knows you're desperate for new signings. Even then it only really makes sense if Jorginho can be sold this summer because otherwise it just royally fecks over Conor Gallagher for whom Tuchel has already promised a role in the squad as a rotational player.
Just to be clear, it’s Frenkie himself who’s holding things up and not United or Barcelona, right?
Good night and God bless
He literally did
You left out the rest of my post. What are your thoughts on that?
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