I wanna say you can do batter, but I also agree with your sentiment, so... I don't know what to do
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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This is like that scene where Yoda succumbed to the dark side
I heard he once ate a red tomatoYeah this thread doesn’t deserve to reach 2000 now. Not like this.
Muppetry should be the stupid hope that something incredible may happen in a window while tracking flights and analysing the colour of vegetable in someone’s latest insta post.
Not this… never this.
a RED tomato
but then it turned out to be a fruit so it didn't matter
Yeah this thread doesn’t deserve to reach 2000 now. Not like this.
Muppetry should be the stupid hope that something incredible may happen in a window while tracking flights and analysing the colour of vegetable in someone’s latest insta post.
Not this… never this.
yeah after Dubravka I don't know how they'll pay for Du Jong
We did our best, muppets. Here's to next window.
I know we're having fun and all, but honestly, the overall muppetry was kind of unnecessary once we acquired Casemiro. At that point, there was little to no hope that we'd conclude a deal for de Jong.
We shouldn't even get our hopes up until de Jong's camp leaks out his willingness to leave Barcelona. As long as the player prefers to stay (regardless of the reasons), this will go nowhere.
Agreed. Sad…Yeah this thread doesn’t deserve to reach 2000 now. Not like this.
Muppetry should be the stupid hope that something incredible may happen in a window while tracking flights and analysing the colour of vegetable in someone’s latest insta post.
Not this… never this.
He was not good enough to start with anyways
@mazhar13 the muppet slayer?!! There’s a twist nobody saw coming….
So youre saying theres still a chance?
Its on, Cafs very own transfer guru has spoken
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Chills literal chills.
Gavi has the right skillset, strong character and talent to be a longterm starter at Barca. But he must improve many things. Hardly surprising of course, he just turned 18. His career at barca will depend on his improvements in the near future. But he has more than enough time to improve. Iniesta for example was around 22-23, when he became an undisputed starter.
Frenkie can't play Busquet's position in our system. Frenkie loves to take the ball and carry it forward. But you can only do that with a double pivot, when you have a player next to you who secures the space you leave. That's where Frenkie has his biggest strength. If you remember the scene a few years back with Ajax against Madrid and Modric. This following scene shows his biggest strength perfectly. He has the physique to fight, win the ball and then carry it forward.
But Busquets plays it completely different. Sergio is the link between the defenders and interiors/flanks. He doesn't carry the ball forward, but passes it. Busquet's job as the only pivot is to open a play with a good pass forward, because he can't leave the space as the only player infront of the defenders. He needs to see the opportunity to pass and start an attack, while being under pressure.
Both players interpret the same position completely different, because of different skillsets. That's why Frenkie can never be Busquet's successor and I believe Xavi sees it the same way, otherwise he would have let him play there way more often.
Be utterly staggered if we get a second bite at this deal next summer, however happy to be proved totally wrong on that
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It's a) nonsense and we'll b) match it, if he as any intention of moving
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Maybe we never really were trying to find a way to get Frenkie maybe the real Frenkie is the friends and sexists we found along the way?
Sure it means our CBs will find transitioning from defence to midfield a bit harder and our line breaking passes might be few and far between. Maybe our press resistant midfield might be a pipedream but look at what we learnt about ourselves for example:
@Brownie85
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All need a hobby… and besides January is only 5 months away.
Sure it means our CBs will find transitioning from defence to midfield a bit harder and our line breaking passes might be few and far between. Maybe our press resistant midfield might be a pipedream but look at what we learnt about ourselves for example:
@Brownie85
@Berbaclass
@Plant0x84
All need a hobby… and besides January is only 5 months away.
Im getting very worried this might not be happening anymore guys...
He’s due 88m euros over the next 4 years so that doesn’t factor it in by my count.
Agreed, those guys are hopeless
And we know he's in London. FFS.
I'm betting that's just Gerard Romero being Gerard Romero. The man's got to earn his meal ticket somehow so he thought he'd make up some shit to get clicks for his channel.
Frenkie vs Muppets...
Actually 18m net is about 30m a year isn’t it? 
Yeah certain we would be willing to not just match it but beat it if any truth at all
Roughly, yeahActually 18m net is about 30m a year isn’t it?
The man is off his fecking rockerRoughly, yeah
€30M is £25M, so 500k a week. I don't think anyone can match that.Actually 18m net is about 30m a year isn’t it?
Probably more like 36M gross, I doubt tax rate is below 50% for that kind of salary.Roughly, yeah
We can have Kovacic off them instead, anyway only one of Kovacic and FDJ will play (nearly identical profiles).
Plus taking their spending to 330m with 90m CB for next year on top and Gordon/Aubemeyang to come. All to finish 3rd.
it's probably cheaper for the first parts of the amount, so it's probably closer to 35.9M
Fecking Chelsea, we'd be mad to blow up our wage structure like that to compete with them
Wouldn't it be the almost same for United by now?
Antony, Casemiro and Martínez didn't exactly come out of the bargain binHow RAWKish…
Yeah it’s exactly the same. Minus the 200m difference in spending. But what’s that amongst friends?Wouldn't it be the almost same for United by now?
That guy has been one of the biggest peddlers of absolute bs throughout all of this. He knows the square root of feck all. It's possible sure, but just the fact that it came from that chancer first makes me sceptical.
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