trouble is Murtough/Arnold are likely to leave the damn bag on the bus when they get off...
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Same. He's essential to ten Hag's plans and will improve our midfield a lot. Now hopefully we kick on and get other players in.
If someone told you this time last year that we’d sign Varane Sancho and FDJ in the next 12 months we’d all have been delighted. Let’s hope it all starts clicking because we do have some very very good players
He's downed tools fella. He's been phoning it in for a while.
Some people need to realise that £4m doesn't mean we've saved £4. There's a whole six zeroes that come after the first number, and even for a premier League club that's not just pocket change.
Based on this and the £69m I take this to be:
€65m (£56m) plus €15m (£13m), for a total potential deal of €80m (£69m). This sounds relatively fair. I assume most of the €15m will be achievable, but hopefully at least some based on performance/ trophies.
The only downside is that whilst that cost might be reasonable the salary will also be huge so total deal cost is still beyond what most other clubs in world football would pay.
And we could never dream of selling a player for that kind of package
I knew a Reza at my old workplace and he was a cool dude. So good vibes
Romano is reporting around 65M euros guaranteed.
Does this guy have any affiliation with the other Rahman Barca fan on twitter? The da silva twins of Barca aggregator twitter?
Announce de Jong
Same guy no? unless they are very similar
No, he seems to be piggybacking off of Reshad's profile via that Twitter tag, but there's no relation or affiliation between them.
Interesting. Smart tactic, reallyHes not reporting that has been accepted though
The important part is a quick defender alongside Varane so we can push up. Lindelof will do a job, not the quickest, but his distribution further up is very good so starts to act more like the DM. Varane as the deeper defender is quick enough to mop up, but still need another option ideally.
Maguire should be sold for whatever we can get. Has no place in our go forward plan. Should have some value to teams like Everton. £40m shouldn't be unreasonable an ask with his wages considered.
As I take it the first offer stands, but we've added a sweetener in add ons.
And Ronaldo!
I don’t think Donny is up to it anyway but those three would lead us back to the usual hapless reverses vs Brighton and their like.
Nearly there, man. A central midfielder who can actually play with the football. I used to pray for times like this 
Frenkie De jONg
Because he's a fraud.
Apart from Ronaldo, Di Maria and Lukaku you mean?
Ronaldo?
Really pleased we've brought in a quality midfielder and more importantly Ten Hag's primary target.
Di Maria and Lukaku after being relative failures also fetched some nice sums
Think it's done but I'll get excited when Orny/Stone/Laurie tweets.
Not getting my hopes up yet, I’ll wait until it’s reported done by multiple reliable jorno’s .
It’s looking promising though, he’ll help change the way we play which is the most exciting thing to me , I can’t bare another season like last year.
It’s looking promising though, he’ll help change the way we play which is the most exciting thing to me , I can’t bare another season like last year.
I'm sticking to it. By the time he's done here he will go down as one of our best central midfield players ever. In the same tier as Charlton, Robson, Keane, Scholes.
69m
Welcome to the Arnold/Murtough era. What a start.
This is going to be a meme.
Welcome to the Arnold/Murtough era. What a start.
This is going to be a meme.
I didn’t want him. I thought it was a step backwards. I’d rather we crashed to 6th without him and got ourselves a haaland or darwin this summer
This Raza guy seems to get more right than wrong, he seems to be an early doors Romano... Similar how they began.
69m
Welcome to the Arnold/Murtough era. What a start.
This is going to be a meme.
Sorry what?
All those claiming it's just 4m.... As though 4m is pocket change. Also if the amount we have agreed to pay nobody knows the ins and outs . We may have saved millions upfront and spread it. Club don't do it they're laughed at, they do they're laughed at..
Can't win.
Can't win.
How come you never see much of DiMarzio these days?
What's his injury record like? We can't afford any more sick notes.
You know very well that there's no pleasing many of these guys.
The OG tends to mainly focus on Serie A nowadays.
69m
Welcome to the Arnold/Murtough era. What a start.
This is going to be a meme.
Frenkie suck my de jong and I'll suck yours type deal?
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