I dont get how we cant wrap up other targets while we tustle for him tbh.
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Yeah that's exactly why other deals aren't progressing
We aren't wasting time trying to convince him. Our efforts are being put into negotiating a fee with Barcelona.
Yeah clear as day this deal has a huge knock on effect with others
It’s been well established that we only work on one target at a time.
Have you seen our fax machine??
Why are United so fixated on one player that they lose sight of other targets. Every year it's the same story.
Under Woodward, perhaps, but we've already submitted an offer to Christian Eriksen, already contacted Ajax about Antony, and have also been working on the Vitinha transfer.
Let's assume CB is one of the positions of priority after De Jong. This is a position where most of the quality players are around the same price tag(45 - 50m) - Torres, Kounde, Gvardiol. So regardless of how much we get De Jong we are still going to spend around 45m on a CB , so there's no reason why we are not trying to get a CB right now. This is only if assuming CB is one of our priorities
Yea but why? This whole change was meant to streamline the process
It shouldn't be
Have we heard from Barca about their big financial news?
Something about levers.
A new CB is 3rd in priority behind a midfielder and another forward. That's why Timber's closer to renewing with Ajax than signing for United.
But he doesn't love ya back, mate.
Maybe he does secretly but don't want to burn his bridges with the Barca fanbase
Ah fair enough. I assumed Silva’s would be pretty high as well. Didn’t know that.
Good point. This is a pretty big deal when you factor in wages. I can see why we might want to wait till this is a bit more clear. I just hope we have sent out feelers for our other targets while we work this out.
Shouldn't have deals put on hold, however have seen evidence in this last 9 years we are working with tight budget
I was listening to a US radio show on SiriusXM this morning and someone called in stating they were on the board of some kind for Barcelona and would be voting to approve the motion or whatever it is to sell assets that was going to raise 700-750m. Anyone else catch that and know who the hell that guy was?
The last time they tried this PSG took Neymar off them solely as a "feck off" message
Surely we had bissouma as a transfer target? 25 mil is a steal! All that money we could of saved and spent on other areas of the pitch!! Man this club is annoying at times. Spend far to long on a transfer target rather then having back ups already sorted out! Sick of hearing about we’re preparing this and preparing that! It should of been prepared weeks ago and already signed by now!!
Only if you believe every positive story and none of the others.
They tried it with illegally tapping up Veratti then PSG came in and snatched Neymar by paying his full release clause in response to teach them a lesson.
They've been inserting absurd billion dollar release values into their players contracts ever since
These are based on reliable reports, not random tabloid articles. And yes, I've kept track of the "negative" reports, too.
And thats the huge problem we have. We always act like that and then miss out too much later on
Totally agree with you, we are definitely in a situation where we're giving ourselves far too much to do in a short period of time
I think signing another midfielder on cheap fees would put Barca in a panic, then knowing we could walk away might force them into accepting our initial offer.
I think it's clear now that we won't be signing all those players. We can't afford them all anyway.
Really? We are up in the top 5 for transfer spend. We just don’t have a clue how to spend the money properly.
They tried it with illegally tapping up Veratti then PSG came in and snatched Neymar by paying his full release clause in response to teach them a lesson.
They've been inserting absurd billion dollar release values into their players contracts ever since
The signing of Neymar was already prepared a year before, he had been seen on the yacht of the president of PSG.
It is incredible that there are people who believe that it was like revenge for Verrati.
As if we cant work on deals simultaneously
And your players have had large buy out clauses way before that, as have Real Madrid. The fact that Neymar had one around 200m is the fruit of negotiations.
Geez, 103 pages since I last opened this thread.
For a player that doesn't want us...anyone getting Di Maria vibes from this? Don't think it's been mentioned before.
For a player that doesn't want us...anyone getting Di Maria vibes from this? Don't think it's been mentioned before.
But but but the nations league was holding the deal up!
Is he tall enough?
Thats the end of the saga.
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