Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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I've had enough of hearing about Di Maria now... If i remember correctly, he was fine with leaving, but wanted to go to PSG, not us.
Ah he actually started pretty well, before Leicester and the robbery happened
Your level of composure is enviable.
Not sure what to make of that, except it's nothing we didn't already know. We know he loves Barca and wants to stay but it's very likely he's going to be flat out told he's not wanted when he returns from holiday.
Barca seem to be on a very slippery slope and it's not long before everything comes completely crashing down
Barcelona maybe could go that way, if they don't sign any new players.
However, forcing a player to accept a pay cut despite him having a valid contract due to financial constrains but then hiring multiple very expensive star players won't work for the club. Regarding to the pandemic, all clubs had to deal with it, so this won't count as an excuse.
Barca will never learn though.
They'll keep signing players on huge wages then wonder why things aren't going well, all the while asking their other players to take huge pay cuts out of their "love for the club".
As i said before, imagine how these guys must feel if they were on €280k a week, or €350k a week, to be told that they need to take a paycut to around €175k a week or less, just for another expensive star player to arrive on a huge €300k plus contract! Yes players want success, but it'd feel like a kick in the face and wouldn't solve anything at all
I can't shake the feeling that this transfer if it goes ahead will be a mistake.
If he does come here it will purely be for ETH. As soon as things aren't going well all the stories about him missing Barca, his fiance being unhappy in Manchester etc will come out.
Before you know it we've got another Pogba on our hands. An unmotivated, unhappy player who wants to be somewhere else.
Sorry I know negativity is frowned upon at the moment but just my 2 cents.
If he does come here it will purely be for ETH. As soon as things aren't going well all the stories about him missing Barca, his fiance being unhappy in Manchester etc will come out.
Before you know it we've got another Pogba on our hands. An unmotivated, unhappy player who wants to be somewhere else.
Sorry I know negativity is frowned upon at the moment but just my 2 cents.
I hate Barca so much.
They are the fecking worst aren't they?
This is the bit I’m struggling with, when those new players come in it will destroy the dressing room as you will be in the same locker room as someone who’s agreed to take a pay cut just so you can join and then be paid your ridiculous wages.
I’m pretty Sure they will then be asking the new players to take pay cuts , is this all part of their big plan?
let’s not forget the levers are a terrible deal, the general income of Barcelona will be impacted hugely in seasons to come. They should have just accepted they will be relying on La masia for a while and sell off most of their big players.
Mes que un bunch of cnuts.
Both Real and Barca have ALWAYS been cnuts. Must be something to do with the Spanish.
Could you imagine that... joining a club and being paid €350k a week only to be asked a few months later to take a 50% pay cut or have some wages deferred for a couple of seasons.
It's just insane and makes you wonder why they're doing it. They need to balance their books, get their finances in order and go from there without the use of any of these economic levers
Barca want to get rid, if he wants to stay he will literally take a pay cut, we aren’t massively attractive understandably but Christ some posters make it sound like we are stoke, the guy is a professional footballer who will have a point to prove, has worked with the manager before where he was at his most successful, honestly this place
it's the pretentious holier-than-thou attitude that does it for me. Bunch of cnuts.
how did Liverpool get dragged into this?
If he stays, he doesn't have to take a pay cut at all.
Last season we got Jadon Sancho early, then Rafael Varane and Cristiano Ronaldo. Before the season, many would say it was one of the best transfer windows for any club for a while. Year after year maybe isn’t so precise.
Pep (lite) or money
Where did I say we are like Stoke? We are still by far the biggest team in the UK but he doesn't want to leave Barca. He and his family enjoy the lifestyle they have there. He wont get that lifestyle in Cheshire.
Yeah this place. How dare anyone give an opinion that isn't he's definitely coming and he and his family will definitely love living here.
I think the point here is that Barcelona can’t keep him without a pay cut and therefore are relying on a good faith situation with FDJ that he accepts a pay reduction and his deferred payments.
He been messed about a lot by them first deferred payments accepted by the player , then they negotiate him leaving and public state he’s staying then ask him to take another significant pay cut. Baffling
Does De Jong have the same agent as Malacia? Just seen pics of Malacia and his agent at Carrington and so this could mean De Jong was discussed too.. speeding things up.
Yes. Also Lindelof and Donny.
It is an insane situation. That Neymar transfer seems to have blown the doors off a few clubs in a serious, serious way. It's hard to think of a worse-managed club than Barca over the last ten years though. Nope, can't think of a siiingle one....
This is dragging on a bit. It doesn't appear there is a date that works as a demarcation point. At this point, anytime before September will do.
I do wonder what would happen if he dug his heels in and said i'm not leaving, and i'm not taking a pay cut or deferring anymore of my salary.
He's signed to a contract that Barca have an obligation to honour... wouldn't it be incredible if he didn't want to leave because he loved the club, but was the catalyst for other players to do the same, ultimately destroying the club.
Well you can assume that this was discussed and everyone at Utd will be aware of what Frenkie is thinking and going to do. Saying that - they should know all ready and we should assume that we know the answer as we are continuing to pursue
Well Sancho rolled over from the year before so that took its sweet time, we’ve had many a failed prolonged transfer. We need a few seasons of getting our targets in to get rid of the negativity we have.
I don't mean to shoot the messenger, but what does that even mean? There are so many contradictory messages from so many voices. Also - does this mean Gerard has had a word with the kit man? The tea lady?
Barca fans rattled. You arrogant cnuts
Still Caf's greatest thread/post to this date.
Mes que un meltdown
They are the fecking worst aren't they?
It takes a special shithouse of a club to be more hated than Real Madrid.
Probably someone in accounts!
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