Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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We’re a family club and don’t like to sell our players after one bad season.
If you see United sell a footballer willingly then just know they are not good enough to play for anyone above Bournemouth by that point. Anything more, we keep them around because we like them.
There's a new head of the family in charge now.
While Ole just didn't give them food, Erik throws them out of the house.
Could have? We paid £80m for Maguire
Not to turn this into a Maguire thread, but any chance of getting him off our books should be taking ASAP, he's on a very bad decline, I honestly expect him to be worst than last season.
United Should be giving players no more than 2 seasons to show their worth, if after that time we are still not sure of the things a certain player is capable of, the club should be taking steps towards showing them the exit door, this can only be good, this way players know if they don't do their jobs they'll be sold to the highest bidder.
The deal is £69 million straight for De Jong or £90 million if we include Maguire.
Am I going crazy or are these guys just copying what the other said ^^
They’ll be copying from the same Times article?
Am I going crazy or are these guys just copying what the other said ^^
They’ll be copying from the same Times article?
These guys are probably going to copy what the other said, right??
The close they get to the end of June the more desperate Barca gets. If this is accurate then the United team read the ground accurately or had very good information about the Barca financial situation -- and not what was reported.
i am sure its more like Barca needs the deal to be done by Thursday -- not so much United who can afford to drag this beyond Thursday.
Again.....Thursday is 30 June, the last day that is within the 21/22 season. Barca MUST comply with La Liga finances from the previous season in order to sign and register new players for the 22/23 season.
International players such as de Jong and Lewandowski won't be back with their club until 1st or 2nd week of July at the earliest.....with the English transfer window closing on 1 September.
Barca want to register like 5 to 6 new players. Offloading a player like FdJ is necessary for Barca to reshape their squad and finances without external help or selling future revenue.
International players such as de Jong and Lewandowski won't be back with their club until 1st or 2nd week of July at the earliest.....with the English transfer window closing on 1 September.
Barca want to register like 5 to 6 new players. Offloading a player like FdJ is necessary for Barca to reshape their squad and finances without external help or selling future revenue.
United asking Barcelona to enquire about Maguire to make his value go up? Not necessarily the market value per se but the invisible value that theres actually a footballer there and that big clubs could use him?
Ive heard more farfetched theories and yes...jet fuel doesnt melt steel beams.
Ive heard more farfetched theories and yes...jet fuel doesnt melt steel beams.
By the way, Martin Blackburn actually wrote that article.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/foot...elona-transfer-harry-maguire-frenkie-de-jong/
I wasn't expecting it, but yeah, this isn't a parody article. That's what Sky Sports are referring to, by the way.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/foot...elona-transfer-harry-maguire-frenkie-de-jong/
I wasn't expecting it, but yeah, this isn't a parody article. That's what Sky Sports are referring to, by the way.
If we turned down the chance to get de Jong in a and get rid of Maguire in one deal we would be even more stupid than I‘d ever thought. Doubt this is true though as Barca want to reduce their wage bill and with Lewandowski coming there surely is no place for someone like Harry.
The club got almost £80M for Lukaku (75M from the fee Inter paid + 4M from the Sell-On clause when Chelsea bought him).
30/6/2022 is the big day. I can feel it.
They wanted 100M euros in fee + add-ons (around 86M pounds).
The club negotiated it down to 80M euros in fee + add-ons (around 69M pounds).
That is 17M pounds less than what Barca originally wanted.
Good work by the club, 69M pounds is still a massive fee, but Frenkie is one of the best CMs in Europe and on the cusp of his prime years.
God knows how some fans can sit on this forum and complain about so much when we are inch close to signing De Jong as a 6th team in the league as well.
My interpretation is that FCB wants to take Harry off our hands with additional money given to them. Something like Harry + 100M = FDJ
Big days ahead.
Are you sure its not the first day of the 2022/23 season?
Big day today lads. Or tomorrow. Have a feeling there will be some official news of United and Barca agreeing a fee.
and right now he's worth about £8Could have? We paid £80m for Maguire
So says Lukhurst. At the start it was always said Barca would accept 80-85m euros.
and right now he's worth about £8
I hope he steps up, but I am not holding my breath tbh.
Another 6x9 hours to go
my memory tells me they wanted 85m Euros (£73m). Only some crazy Spanish sites ever mentioned more. so if the £69m figure is correct, we've spent weeks pissing about to save £4m. Great work!
When does the window close?
We're going to look really stupid if he turns out to be another Anderson!
As I said before, it feels like we’ve begged them to accept below £70m so that it is “60 something” for us to save face and justify the wasted time
just over another 6-9 weeks
I think they wanted 85m guaranteed + add ons (totalling 100m?)
We have supposedly offered 65+15m (euros) right now
Why would we even shutdown such an offer, we should be paying them to take him off our hands
What is so far crucially missing from the equation so far is the agreement of personal terms which will reveal how much De Jong wants to come to Old Trafford, if at all. Really, we should be tying that side up first, IMHO, as other clubs do.
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