Cant wait to see him in action for United..
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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That's right.
That kind of financial indiscipline could get us 500m in debt pretty quickly
Yup. The calm before "the storm" and official confirmation of "fee agreed between the two clubs"
It might take another few days to get the Sky Sports News Breaking News Yellow Ticker Bar "Manchester United Agree Fee With Barcelona For Midfielder Frenkie De Jong"
but let's see, hopefully Sky Sports News give it the Breaking News Yellow Bar treatment today. They'll have it on the whole day because it's a HUGE transfer
Manchester United are going to "Break the Internet" like they do again and again every summer with big Marquee signings. Twitter will explode and will go crazy and social interactions will be Glazier Heaven!
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I don't think we'll have to wait too long for Eriksen after this one is confirmed.
That's right, throwing 4m to meet the seller's demands is not just spending 4m over our evaluation. but it also means all selling clubs will then be holding their ground at that sort of amount over our evaluation, we're going to have to buy a lot of players, that 4-5m racks up to 20-25 extra with 5 signings. It's not a good idea to. Our transfer strategy needs to change and we need to stop getting bullied by selling clubs because we're desperate for players.
Yeah, but think of the benefits, transfer junkies get their hit a few days earlier.
Are Sky Sports News Twitter / channel a banned source?
Those ™ body feint step overs are going to be a joy to watch.
Hasn't been a player like him in the Premiership since Modrić left Spurs and Silva left Shitty.
Hasn't been a player like him in the Premiership since Modrić left Spurs and Silva left Shitty.
Exactly. It's also 4 Million off the companies bottom line profit which is a huge amount.
I have never looked at Utd's financials but lets just just say their Nett profit is at 5% that means to make 4 million profit you need to turnover 80 million....... All of a sudden you realise how important every penny actually is.
Those ™ body feint step overs are going to be a joy to watch.
Hasn't been a player like him in the Premiership since Modrić left Spurs and Silva left Shitty.
we should have signed Modric when he was at Spurs
no value in the market
Oh yes
That's a very good deal
we should have signed Modric when he was at Spurs
no value in the market
We should've signed him when he was at Dinamo.
Ok I guess not
It's a reasonable deal.
No they're a decent source only the paper section of Sky sports is banned because the source in those aren't Sky sports they report on sources from all sorts of shite (Sun, Daily Fail etc)
What's important is who we out beside him and who else we sign.
Put him beside any of our current Midfielders and they'll only drag him down
Put him beside any of our current Midfielders and they'll only drag him down
Am I right in saying that we're about to get him for a fair bit less than any news outlet had reported up until now?
If true, yeah.
Some takes from a Barca forum.
For feck's sake, sign this dude already.
He is the best tempo controller. He can either play the passes very quickly or sitting down gasping for air while the opponents are waiting for his next move. His tempo range is between 0 to 90 and it often caught opponents off-guard. Such as when he did nothing but stare at Szczęsny.
Very good deal.
He was my dream midfield signing the past few years.
I think he's an excellent player.
He was my dream midfield signing the past few years.
I think he's an excellent player.
Weird that to a man they seem to miss that the “desperate” ones here are Barça, moreso
than United, it’s like they’ve head their collective heads in the sand for the past 18 months.
But then “levers”…
Just look at the Barca fans here, they're largely the same
I always ask you about Dutch players. Tell me briefly how much you rate him mate?
Interesting to see thoughts from the oppo fans. Sound a bit like United fans in this example
Happy to be wrong here.
The funniest one was the “offer him to Chelsea”, I mean, ignore the player’s desires, why on Earth do they think Chelsea or any club would offer more when they all know Barça’s situation?
Didn't our scouting/Fergie deem him to be too frail for the PL?
Yes, a lot of that is pure delusion. I don't know much about their situation but from the little I have read it is absolutely clear that they are in a dire situation financially. If this was a game of poker we'd definitely have the lions share of the chips.
If this is true its around 55million pounds...... Really good signing.
Hopefully we can get 2 or 3 more in too....... Need this one sorted asap now.
Hopefully we can get 2 or 3 more in too....... Need this one sorted asap now.
Fair play to the club in all honesty. The deal looks good.
It'll be interesting to see who we play alongside him. You can imagine teams man marking him if we don't have another midfielder or a CB who can bring the ball forward.
Hopefully with the money saved we can stretch to get a CDM.
It'll be interesting to see who we play alongside him. You can imagine teams man marking him if we don't have another midfielder or a CB who can bring the ball forward.
Hopefully with the money saved we can stretch to get a CDM.
Why does everyone keep pronouncing his name like Frank(Lampard)- ie? It's Frenkie right?
I remember being on here when that all went down.we should have signed Modric when he was at Spurs
no value in the market
All the idiots on here were clamouring for Sneijder as if he was in Modric’s league.
I’m not as convinced as some that we need a more defensive player alongside him, our biggest issue for me is having no-one who wants to dictate, set the tempo and create triangles in the middle of the park. Due to that we 99 times out of a 100 go out to the full backs.
Interesting to see what ETH is planning here.
Interesting to see what ETH is planning here.
Reading through their forum, they're generally sick of the people running their club so I think they're inclined to view it as them fecking up negotiations that should have been in their favour rather than a better deal not really being viable. There's a lot of "we're just going to waste the money on X" type negativity as well. Basically any stick to beat them with.
21 De Jong shirt is on order
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