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Frenkie to United?

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I just love watching Antony and could not be more happy. But if we had 94 million to spend on one player, isn't it wiser to improve our FDJ bid to help resolve the situation ?
 
Every single player that they wanted to get rid off scored.
You can't make this shit up :lol:
 
Off topic but why are City and Barca playing a friendly with so many games coming up?
 
Getting Dubravka on loan so we have more money in the Frenkie pot. Very wise
 
If we menage to sing both Antony and De Jong.....I'm not kidding , I'll run naked around my town and film it than post it here, would go mental definitely.
 
Red the Bear said:
As expected Frenkie is still kinda shit.

He must be a bit thick to be honest, he'd get better pay here and the chance to actually play his best but he still refuses to come.

It's something.
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Yeah clearly doesn’t realise what side his bread is buttered on, Erik gave him that big break in football but still won't join his Utd project
 
Mr Pigeon said:
It landed on time. Fog drifting across the runway like a prime George Best, effortless and with the faint odor of gasoline. Inside the plane began the stirring of some passengers as they readied for arrival. Two seats, however, remained in use for several minutes after the final stewardess had fixed her skirt and thanked Snowjoe for his routine servicing...

"Sigh," she sighed. "Thees weather ees mucho coldio."
Frenkie also sighed, but with more sighness. "We're not in Spain anymore, Mikky. Speak Englishings." He removed the prop moustache he had culturally appropriated from Catalonia and switched it for his backup bucket hat. There was no doubt that Ryanair would have sent the suitcase with the primary one to Karachi or the Moon by mistake.

Mikky gave Frenkie a sad face like you would see from a cat or duck or something before you smashed it's face in with one of your dad's golf clubs. "Why did we come here, Frenkie? London has dickhead cyclists that we could clip with our Range Rover on days out, and they have at least one restaurant that's good. Manchester hasn't been relevant since Whiplash."

"First off; James also brought out a little album called 'Pleased to Meet You' years after Whiplash so you're just plain wrong. Secondly..." Frenkie raised his hand to stop Mikky talking back, like he had learned from Centrist and critical thinker Andrew Tate.

He ruffled under his chair for his shotgun and night vision goggles.

"Ninja Cyborg Badgers. They've followed us. Get behind me Mikky!"

@rimaldo take the wheel.
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rimaldo said:
“shtop trying to make ‘ninja cyborg badgers’ a thing. no one will say it, you’ve got more chance of barcelona paying you what you’re owed.”

“that’s right, it’s us, the lethal weapons!” exclaimed murtough and rich in a disjointed unison which only hinted at their incompetence.

“i’m just three days from retirement,” said murtough as the elastic on his tracksuit bottoms finally gaveway, exposing his marvel superhero y-fronts. rich shuffled through a stack of creased papers, “now, franky baby, i’m sure you’re wondering exactly what these two definitely the right men for the job are doing here, along with this very professional looking dossier? well it’s no coincidence. we are manchester united and these are a printout of scouting reports that murtough got on his fm 16 save and before you sign for your new club, we want to convince you to come to manchester united instead.”

“but i’m already here to…” rich placed a finger on frenkie’s lips in a shushing motion. the only sound now was murtough fighting to get his trousers to stay up.

“hear us out. we think you will be a perfect fit in our midfield with casio and sony ericsson.”

“another shrewd sponsorship-cum-player deal from the absolute maestros” murtough interjected; missing a fist bump with rich.

“i know, that’s why i’m…”

“shush now, let me speak.” the only sound to be heard now was mikky rifling through the duty free trolley and buying all the perfume so she didn’t have to smell the porcelain faced wenches that would greet them as they made their way through border control.

“how much are they paying you? we’ll double it!” murtough shouted before returning his attention to the mustard stain on his t-shirt.

“but it is you who are..”

“christ, man! we’re busy people, we don’t have time for this. rich is up to level 5 on candy crush and i’m about to get sacked from the aldermaston job if i lose the crunch match against slough town this weekend on fm. i’ve lived every manager’s dream, starting out at the top with manchester united, and ending up in non-league football.”

“it’s what we all dreamed of as kids,” said rich as he wiped a tear from his cheek.

“it’s 350,000 a week, but in accordance with british press tradition, it will go up 50,000 with every bad performance.”

“like i said, we’ll double it, so that makes………..carry the three………. how does……………. 575,000 sound?” said murtough as he counted his fingers and toes.

“just take the money and we go!” shouted mikky, as the rain somehow pelted her whilst inside the plane.

“huzzah; another victory!” exclaimed murtough. “we need to run or we’ll miss our connecting flight to frankfurt. murtough has found and up and coming goalkeeper on his fm save, keith traps, and we need to snatch him up.”
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Quality work as always lads
 
Strong lack of rumours today, expect a better showing tomorrow in preparation for Frenkie Friday.
 
Shakesey said:
AWESOME!

It's between ToT, Small Gods and Carpe Jugulum for me.
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I'm joining this off topic convoy!

For me, there are so many excellent Pratchett books, but he hit the absolute sublime for a good few books in a row starting with Carpe Jugulum and culminating with:
Night Watch
Monstrous Regiment
Going Postal
Thud

The first two especially. The Aching books in between are good, but not on the same level as the others in that period.

Then Making Money was great - but something started to happen to his writing in the 3rd act.

And Unseen Academicals (and all the books after it) is (are) heart-breaking to read, because it's the first one where his Alzheimer's is clearly showing up.

I have a pet theory that the way his writing changes isn't a direct result of his condition. It's a result of the measures he had to take to carry on writing. He turned to dictating to another person, and I think it resulted in losing that natural self-editing that happens as you write. It also resulted in all characters going off on long monologues regularly throughout the book. Especially noticeable with Vimes, who it was totally out of character for.

Note: They're still good books. Just not to his usual sky high standard.
 
Fanta Stick said:
My brother always knew when I was reading Pratchett.

He would hear weird strangulated tittering noises as he walked past my room.
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Theo88 said:
He isnt happening. I’m starting to feel warmer about Caicedo these days

on a different note, the Thief of Time is for me his best book (Lu Tze) and everything that has Sam Vines in it
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Shakesey said:
AWESOME!

It's between ToT, Small Gods and Carpe Jugulum for me.
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Fanta Stick said:
Would have to go with Reaper Man. Death cracks me up.
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Shakesey said:
:lol::lol: WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT? THE DEATH OF RATS WOULD RIDE SOME KIND OF DOG.
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Ah the feckin death of rats :lol: :lol:

I'd forgotten all of this... man Pratchett was a genius. I'll have to go back and read them all again. All of the above and a notable mention for Esme Weatherwax for pure badassery.
 
izec said:
Dead in the water. There is a reason we paid the 70m for Casemiro. Hope we buy another midfielder though.
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Unfortunately, at no time has the player ever said he want's to come. All he has said is that he wants to remain at Barca, the club he always dreamt of playing for. If he goes anywhere, it will be to a team in the Champions League.
 
gica_7 said:
I just love watching Antony and could not be more happy. But if we had 94 million to spend on one player, isn't it wiser to improve our FDJ bid to help resolve the situation ?
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From what has been reported it doesn't seem like improving the offer is going to do too much. Barca has agreed to the fee and want De Jong to piss off without his back wages and De Jong wants to stay or to receive his back wages before he leaves. It's really just down to Barca at this point. This sale would relieve a lot of financial pressure, but it looks like they're going to let it go down to the wire to see if they can avoid paying Frenkie the €17 million they didn't pay him the last few years.

The big question is if United spend €100 million on Antony are they still in for Frenkie? I think both of those and a "backup" keeper who can play with the ball at his feet are probably the bare minimum for a chance at top 4, so there might be a willingness to go all in for this transfer window.

The reports of Chelsea's interest were probably just nonsense cooked up by Barca mouthpieces. Liverpool really do need another midfielder but De Jong doesn't really seem like someone they'd sign. If FSG runs Liverpool like they do the Red Sox, this transfer would be very out of character. With the transfer fee amortized in it's something like €45 million per year for one player, especially with Keita still in the squad. I think they're waiting until next summer to buy another midfielder.
 
Womp said:
Barca's mouthpiece broadcasting the game for free because no-one gives a feck about the La Liga. Rough times.
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Wasn't a La Liga game, it was City vs Barca in a friendly raising ALS awareness, have some class.
 
Womp said:
Barca's mouthpiece broadcasting the game for free because no-one gives a feck about the La Liga. Rough times.
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Charity game with 91k attendance. With donation links.. Yea, you made some real important contribution here.
 
BazzaBear said:
I'm joining this off topic convoy!

For me, there are so many excellent Pratchett books, but he hit the absolute sublime for a good few books in a row starting with Carpe Jugulum and culminating with:
Night Watch
Monstrous Regiment
Going Postal
Thud

The first two especially. The Aching books in between are good, but not on the same level as the others in that period.

Then Making Money was great - but something started to happen to his writing in the 3rd act.

And Unseen Academicals (and all the books after it) is (are) heart-breaking to read, because it's the first one where his Alzheimer's is clearly showing up.

I have a pet theory that the way his writing changes isn't a direct result of his condition. It's a result of the measures he had to take to carry on writing. He turned to dictating to another person, and I think it resulted in losing that natural self-editing that happens as you write. It also resulted in all characters going off on long monologues regularly throughout the book. Especially noticeable with Vimes, who it was totally out of character for.

Note: They're still good books. Just not to his usual sky high standard.
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Interesting. the unseen academicals was perhaps his only book i didnt love. He was a great man and one of my top 2-3 authors (up there with the lad who writes the kingkiller chronicles, the bartimaeus trilogy, Sanderson and obviously Tolkien).

Which one is the book in which Death gets Mort as an apprentice?

Man I thought i was a weirdo for being old(er) and loving his books. Uh maybe it’s time to pick one up again. The BBC series I didn’t love either.

maybe we need a topic just for this. :lol:
Last T.P. post I’m running low on my newbie allowance. :lol:
 
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gica_7 said:
I just love watching Antony and could not be more happy. But if we had 94 million to spend on one player, isn't it wiser to improve our FDJ bid to help resolve the situation ?
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The issue with de Jong appears to be his reluctance to leave Barcelona, no matter how shabbily they treat him. His feelings might change by September 1, but the point here is that the cards are all in Frenkie's hands and it's unlikely that an improved bid for the transfer fee itself would impact his decision in any way.
 
Theo88 said:
Interesting. the unseen academicals was perhaps his only book i didnt love. He was a great man and one of my top 2-3 authors (up there with the lad who writes the kingkiller chronicles, the bartimaeus trilogy, Sanderson and obviously Tolkien).

Man I thought i was a weirdo for being old(er) and loving his books. Uh maybe it’s time to pick one up again. The BBC series I didn’t love either.

maybe we need a topic just for this. :lol:
Last T.P. post I’m running low on my newbie allowance. :lol:
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Older?? You're 33 mate. I'm 44 and still love his books. I loved them when I was younger but they're not kids books.

EDIT: That Rothfuss lad needs to get the finger out :mad:
 
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