bbbbbut I thought united were crap at negotiating and it shouldn't take so long!
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bbbbbut I thought united were crap at negotiating and it shouldn't take so long!
So we negotiated a 4m discount?….
He’s not first, he’s just repeating what Telegraph already said
Yep, you can't imagine any other club in the world is capable of steadfastly smashing them down from 73m to...69m
Cool. Great signing.
Sounds like incredible negotiations from us. Took 4m off the price
It all depends on the details. If they wanted the money upfront but we managed to negotiate fee+bonuses and lower the price, it is indeed a great piece of business.
We need more of course but if we get him over the line, it'll be a good window no matter what IMO. He's the dream midfielder for Ten Hag and for United.
The Telegraph just said it was close, didn't they? This bloke is saying it's done.
I really hope he'll be worth the amount of time we've pissed away on trying to get this deal done. And I hope by next summer we'll have mastered the art of working on more than one deal at a time.
Important along with Van de Beek coming back too. I could see a midfield 3 of those two and Bruno working well - obviously no wholly defensive minded mid in there but they all work hard and track back. And Frenkie is a great holding mid.
This has been done for a while. He’d clearly agreed to terms and we were just haggling a fee with Barca.
Never quite understood the Caf panic about this. We’d of paid 80m for him if Barca wouldn’t budge.
Never quite understood the Caf panic about this. We’d of paid 80m for him if Barca wouldn’t budge.
I can’t wait for the usual hullabaloo to happen when transfers are at this stage. Simon Stone will post a fence sitting tweet. Shrager will say it’s not done yet despite earlier reports. Howard Nurse will post ’Frenkie de Jong then’ etc
He already posted that a while back
Also, could people please stop posting tweets from random effers on Twitter? Maybe we could have an ITK dedicated thread again.
Hey, what are you doing there step-Hoof?
Yes, but it's more fun to ridicule and moan apparently.
More than just that, it'll be the structure and add ons too which would have been negotiated for better terms. 4M is nothing to United. It'll 100% be the structure.
Journalism at its finest eyWell in a way you have, they just change a word or so everyday with the same message
If the figure is accurate, then it’s a bargain IMO.
As good as a trophy that result.
I've seen a few quote the €100m figure and more recently the €86m.
Even if we go with your figure €5m is not to be sniffed at especially when we want to get another 3/4 players in and not get shafted on those deals either.
EDIT: We also don't know the structure of the add-ons/repayments or how they've changed throughout the process.
Yeah all that 4M should make a small dent to offset martial’s salary to play for someone else.
Barca were wanting a lot more up front.
I swear in recent times we actually come out winning in these transfer price haggling games a lot of the time. We got Juve to pay Pogba’s massive agent fees and got Ronaldo really dirt cheap from them. We got Sancho much cheaper than what Dortmund wanted.
United can't win in some fans eyes. If we paid up weeks ago we would've been slated by the same fans for bailing Barca out and not being good negotiators. We wait it out and negotiate a lower fee and they still criticize the club. It's so tiring.
.no wonder I had so little belief. How did I miss Howard Nurse’s TweetHe already posted that a while back
Also, could people please stop posting tweets from random effers on Twitter? Maybe we could have an ITK dedicated thread again.
Hey if ETH can pull this off then all is forgiven.
FDJ is that good, he is what we need and we would only need another CB to partner Maguire.
FDJ is that good, he is what we need and we would only need another CB to partner Maguire.
Let em moan, I'm delighted.
1/20 Skybet. Done dealio.
Or I’ll be nothing
Fabrizio in the mud
Do people who claim that these ITK accounts have “got other stuff spot on” not realise they are just throwing endless shite at the wall every single day then they just delete all the shit that didn’t stick and keep the stuff that did, because other people were reporting it?
Nothing has been said about what we’re paying upfront
Can't believe Fabrizio didn't get the tap in
Fabrizio in the mud
Romano reported the latest offer as being €65m guaranteed (before add-ons), not €65m in total (which was the £56m first offer that Barcelona rejected).
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