I think the key thing that people get confused about is assuming the "6" or the deepest midfielder has the most defensive responsibility. De Jong as a deep midfielder had someone maybe more advanced on paper or in possession to start off with De Jong picking it up deep, but he had the freedom to advance while as you say, Schone was the defensive stability guy. Its why Barca can't just replace Busquets with De Jong. They need a much more defensive #8 in that case and let De Jong be the playmaker.
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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He had the freedom to move forward, with the ball, and "abandon" his position, but he also had the task, defensively, of covering space in the back of Schöne
The thread with all the suspicious sources to read and where muppets will die come deadline.
Always nice to have one.
Always nice to have one.
Agree, I think it's pie in the sky as well. Utd as normal will be linked with every player on the planet from now till Window closes.
Yeah only listen to the usual suspects on transfers
Is this a transfer train yet? Are we all aboard the Frenkie express?
Yeah, it was sort of like when Kroos would sit in a midfield 2 for Germany and his partner (Khedira I recall the most) would have license to attack. Or Jorginho and Kante, really. Kante does 2 jobs, Jorginho does one.
Among all the midfield targets, he's the one who would have helped us play better from yesterday display.
Definitely, energy and technical ability. Badly missing at present.
Is he angling for a better contract at Barca?
With the money he is allegedly on, if he does that I'm sure Laporta himself would drive him out of Barcelona.
How reliable is this romano fella?
Enough to get on the hype train?
If they’re interested in Telles we should jump all over that.
If they are interested in Telles we should jump all over that regardless of what happens with Frenkie.
I've seen tells links as far back as the last season, I think they might be interested due to dest not being all that for them.
But surely they won't poke tellea with a pole after his recent showings.
I think luckily for us it’s gone under the radar how shit he is. In relation to some of our other players he gets almost no flack from rivals or pundits.
I would say that's that.
Well at least Maguire being utter shit has been useful once.
But surely barca aren't that incompetent to not be aware of the disasters he makes every other week?
They are just taking the piss
Silly season truly is in full swing.
I'll never say a bad word about Barcelona if they take any of those off our hands
Haha a random word generator would churn out something more believable that this! I do hope whoever wrote it was having a good time with a beer...top bantz!
Ok so I looked it up, apparently this Romero guy is pretty reliable, they have him in the second tier over there at the barca tier guide along with Romano.
The one bright sign that this might actually happen is the fact that a lot of these rumors are coming from Spain itself.
The one bright sign that this might actually happen is the fact that a lot of these rumors are coming from Spain itself.
No chance is this happening.
Seems every time we get a new manager we have a daft transfer saga the same summer. This time its De Jong. Dont get me wrong I would love him here but just seems too good to be true.
Also Barca are certainly not looking at Maguire or McTominay. Rashford and Elanga I can understand but not Maguire or McTominay unless their scouts only watch internationals.
Also Barca are certainly not looking at Maguire or McTominay. Rashford and Elanga I can understand but not Maguire or McTominay unless their scouts only watch internationals.
Can't see it happening. But he would be our Thiago though if we could get him. Very few midfielders in the world as press resistant as him.
Weren’t Barca interested in Pogba sometime back? If they could get Pogba in on a free maybe they might consider De Jong leaving. They also have Kessie coming in.
The player doesn't want to leave and seems he will have to be forced out.
I don’t think that matters if they play their midfield like the following below:
Kessie FDJ Pedri
Some are seduced by it, some are flattened by it, but noone at Man United is resistant to the press.
Anyway, can't see it happening either.
Reports are coming in that for an extra £5 million, Barca would be willing to take Jones as well.
Do they think we want Luuk De Jong !!!!!!
This is one of those that is only slightly more likely to happen than Liz Hurley offering herself to me sexually in the next 48 hours
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Yeah a non starter without any doubt
Yeah and that isn't gonna happen
Imagine getting Tchouameni and De Jong in the summer, a dream midfield. We'll most likely get neither of course.
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