Dominated the 'Great' Belgium midfield and his partner in midfield is an Everton reject and a Watford reject
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Press resistant midfielder. Pay the fecking money.
Made Belgium look like amateurs 
Belgium are just one of the many teams I've seen him dominate for you in his proper position. His victims are endless. Unfortunately, one of them was England!
I'm 100% confident it'd be the same here under ten Hag.
Awesome player when used correctly.
Never knew there were so many international games coming up. Won't be seeing any transfer business from playing targets until these are done.
Not sure how anyone who see him play and then decide that we should not convince him to come. This guy will change the way we play and in my opinion we should be giving him all the assurances he needs to come.
WOuld say rather you are seriously over estimating our central midfielders and also under estimating the quality of sides in the premiership in comparison to the dutch league, Fred and McTminay simpl are not good enough for a trophy chasing league side in the premiership at least
The problem is whether we can convince him, going off reports, so far he doesn't seem to want to come
Just watching the France highlights. What a goal that was from Benzema
Getting Thiago vibes 
He'd just come off the back of the u21 Euros where he shone. People weren't convinced Barca would actually let him go. Only linked with us for a long time. Then all of a sudden all the other interested parties make their move and we're left in the dust.
He'd just come off the back of the u21 Euros where he shone. People weren't convinced Barca would actually let him go. Only linked with us for a long time. Then all of a sudden all the other interested parties make their move and we're left in the dust.
Yes I appreciate that, but the defensive midfielder position has been weak for soem time, Herrera wasnt quite godo enough, Matic was good for a season or so and for the last two years or so it has been absolutely dreadful, its the first position should be getting looked at. We simply dont have an all round mifelder intelligent or good enough to play there Pogba failed, VDB didnt get chances, McFred are simply not anywhere near consistently good or intelligent enough.....to pin our hopes on Garner seems a little naive.
I would rather forgo a striker and have Rashford as back up there (irrespective of form he isnt even a striker either) than not sign a defensive midfielder.
One of the big reasons I love the club is the quality of defensive midfielders we have had and I dotn mean specialised, mroe box to box but intellgent tough all round midfielders. I grew up with Bryan Robson, then Ince, Keane and Carrick though different was a very sound defensive midfielder in the end.
We have had nowehere near that quality for a long time. As good as DeJong is, not signing him we have options to play that role though with nowhere near the quality, defensive midfield wise we simply have Garner and thats it
We are always like that useless in negotiations and then we will say there is no value in the market.Getting Thiago vibes
He'd just come off the back of the u21 Euros where he shone. People weren't convinced Barca would actually let him go. Only linked with us for a long time. Then all of a sudden all the other interested parties make their move and we're left in the dust.
Just want this deal all wrapped up and official as soon as possible please.
I meant since the start of this rumour, people here and on other social media site, dont want us to convince him because “we should sign players who wants to play for United”. That part baffles me as we are nowhere near where we should be and any player with that level of talent will be hesitant seeing our past record.
We dont have dithering David anymore at United. With ETH there, hopefully we can avoid some of the blunders we did while recruiting midfielders in last 10 yearsGetting Thiago vibes
He'd just come off the back of the u21 Euros where he shone. People weren't convinced Barca would actually let him go. Only linked with us for a long time. Then all of a sudden all the other interested parties make their move and we're left in the dust.
Sign him whatever the cost.
The Dutch Mctominay without the passion. Avoid.
Van Gaal goes from villain to hero…
Amazing to think that some would pass on him in favour of McTominay and Donny.
Just dropped a midfield masterclass against the no.2 ranked side in the world earlier.
Proper deep lying playmaker
Proper deep lying playmaker
There goes our free run at him probably
Neh he will realise the insane attention he will get for playing well is because he is linked to United and realise that will grow when he signs.
It was a good performance but I doubt any scouts/clubs learned anything they didn't already know.
Aye, that was typical de Jong for the Netherlands and Ajax.
Too bad he broke his ankle...
Yeah convinced we still need a proper DM in order for De Jong to flourish, hopefully talk will pick up of one later in the window.
We should just cough up the fecking money really. Better than anything we've had in midfield since prime Carrick.
Didn't watch the game but it feels his price just went up
ETH's system would suit him even better too...
Oh, he’d be the diamond in the midfield 3, no doubt. He’d be the perfect deep lying playmaker like Jorginho, with two ball winning 8s ahead of him, similar to the Chelsea setup. He’s pretty damn good positionally. Not super excited to have McFred ahead of him though.
Modric is the best CM of his generation IMHO. KdB is more of a 10 whereas Modric is an all rounder. Pure class and tough as nails. But he was sold to Spurs for 16m, then after 4 seasons, sold to Madrid for 30m —not a huge fee.
‘Maybe FDJ is a one-man high press breaker, maybe he’s worth it literally just because he does that for us. Still, nervous that this is potentially another instance where we overpay for a big name player, fail to put the pieces next to him for budget reasons, and we’re in the same spot as we were with Pogba.
Are you aware, he played as a DM for Holland tonight and has for nearly all of his appearances under LVG?
Nah, he's been putting in these worldlies back when Harry was still at Leicester.Didn't watch the game but it feels his price just went up
What position did he play tonight?
Is that a shot at Xavi?
Hes screaming for ETH!
So what position does he play for Netherlands compared to Barcelona?
You really are a ray of sunshine in this thread.Getting Thiago vibes
He'd just come off the back of the u21 Euros where he shone. People weren't convinced Barca would actually let him go. Only linked with us for a long time. Then all of a sudden all the other interested parties make their move and we're left in the dust.
Absolutely not. Koeman also played him out of his position.
Only recently have Gavi and Pedri broken through and it's rare for both of them to available.
In that case, the alternative to playing FDJ b2b is to drop Busquets.
No 6/DM single pivot with 2 midfielders slightly further up.
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