United has to sign world class players and hot prospects, not just decent players.
FdJ is a no brainer, we can‘t get Tchouameni for example.
FdJ is a no brainer, we can‘t get Tchouameni for example.
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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It has to be in Dutch, it's the international language of love and sexiness as we all know.
This is turning out to be quite tiresome.
It's only June 6th, get ready...
In all seriousness... How often does it ever progress to actual signing the player after this sort of talk for so long? Feels rare.
As long as this has been (less than 2 weeks)? The majority of our signings over the last 10 years had longer periods of speculation than this before they joined.
Wasn't there a report last week we were negotiating for the price? Probably haven't hammered out the exact number yet, because that meeting regarding their finances didn't happen till Friday I think? Plus the last few years we've negotiated with the player before the team, so this isn't new for us to wait on a bid. I think by the end of the week we'll have a better idea of whether or not this transfer is happening. Also with nations league til the 14th he has more time to consider his options
Frenkie got fingered
This has to be the worst transfer saga of the last few years.
That's pure gub my friend. Unless it's your first few weeks of being a United fan.
We're a couple of weeks into the summer! This could go on 3 months and it still wouldn't get close to the actual worst sagas.
It isn’t even a fun saga though. At least the past Sancho and Pogba threads had some decent laughs. This one is just boring and miserable.
Until he signs...
That's written a bit like how I used to write assignments when I was behind on the word count.
Sick of this thread
Don’t we normally wait until near the end of the window?
A recent tweet by @Toeinthewater on Twitter in regards to our finances suggests we have little to no money.
It does seem very legit
It does seem very legit
That was Woody style negotiations. Wait till the last day and they will either sell lower or not at all.
I thought “official” bids are only made seconds before the selling club actually accepts? You negotiate, agree a fee and then make a bid. Otherwise what’s the point?
As the original transfer tweets muppet, you know better than all of us that we're waiting to finish the monitoring so that we can progress to the considering phase.
Transfers are going to take even longer now that we have to factor in Ten Hag's 'seducing the player' phase. Unless he has some cunning plans like leaving a nice breakfast on their doorstep I can't see how our timelines are going to improve.
We should have decided on ETh sooner and gotten our transfer business rolling during the season.
Only because posters are making it boring and miserable with there woe is us inferiorities and dull unfunny Di Maria ‘jokes’.
Frenkie is a fantastic talent, he fixes a large part of our midfield, is a bargain at £60m and is coming.
I thought we were in a massive tug of war with Barcelona according to previous reports? We were fighting hard to get him, but Barca were also fighting back? Frenkie and Ten Hag were in constant discussions over the project but he had doubts because we weren't a top club? But our war chest was big and our persistence fierce?!
Or maybe journalists know feck all and because nobody at the club said "the stories are shite" they just ran with it?
We already know that Ten Hag likes Italy. Like, really likes Italy. Maybe he'll sweep De Jong on a romantic getaway for a few weeks to Sicily before jetting back and finishing up the deal.
Mirror Sport - "Ten Hag has halted his desire to sign De Jong after finding the midfielder's stamina lacking."
So basically Barcelona are absolutely dying to sell him and are trying to force our hand.
Too jong to fall in love.
At least Ten Hag knows him well enough that we were able to skip the “running the rule” phase altogether.
The chase for Sneijder has been going on for a decade or so now?
(any day now, I’m confident he’ll see the light)
No no, here we go again with a player that did not want to come here in the first place.
We have suffered enough with players like that.
We have suffered enough with players like that.
Just hope it doesn’t turn into a Moyes/Woodward window of being linked with Kroos and Fabregas etc and getting Fellaini for more than his release clause at the end of the window.
Every big summer transfer we do always happens later on in the window, or doesn't happen at all, people just have no appetite for it this summer.
@bosnian_red @McTerminator I was poking fun at that exaggerated tweet who said that FDJ is "potentially key asset" for any team playing high level, when Barca even prefer their 17 y.o. player instead of him. I know about wages and such, but you don't sell your "key asset" easily. And part of the reason is Barca is pursuing 33 y.o. Lewa where his wage might be equal to FDJ; where they have Aubameyang as striker already.
Fair enough, yeah the key asset label is a bizarre one.
Key assets are top class players who just make the team tick, like Maguire
I heard the Dutch link with ETH has helped progress the Sneijder deal.
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Once a player comes to United, he becomes an "asset" that we can only let go when their contract expire.
Although FDJ can totally become our real "key asset" though. I've never been this excited about potential signing for a long time. since Varane and Ronaldo.
I’ll be honest, I was hyped for Maguire so I’m going to keep my muppetting to a minimum on FDJ (I am super hyped though)
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Fair enough, yeah the key asset label is a bizarre one.
Key assets are top class players who just make the team tick, like Maguire
Once a player comes to United, he becomes an "asset" that we can only let go when their contract expire.Although FDJ can totally become our real "key asset" though. I've never been this excited about potential signing for a long time. since Varane and Ronaldo.
Wait, will we still have time till August to finish up our preparing phase?
He's on international duty til after the 14th, and the windows hasn't been open for a week. I don't think it's time to be panicking.
I think it's more worrying that we don't seem to be progressing anything else at the same time, although for all we know that might not be the case.
I think it's more worrying that we don't seem to be progressing anything else at the same time, although for all we know that might not be the case.
FFS this board might have new people but it hasn't changed 1 bit. Gonna spend all summer trying to get a fee down for a guy that is already throwing his toys out the pram because he doesn't want to come here.
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