So if he stays and makes them honour the contract, realistically what are we talking for barca?
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Teeing this up
PSG being involved likely gave him more leverage, but being a lifelong fan doesn’t mean much in these matters. I’m a lifelong United fan, but if I was a successful footballer and United was in for me, best believe I’m squeezing United for every penny I can get. Hold the club to ransom or however that expression goes.
This transfer is getting awkward.
I'm not even invested in the transfer stuff, I gave up muppetry a long time ago when I realised it was a massive waste of the summer to be scanning ITK's and obscure foreign media outlets for snippets of news, now I just wait for the "Here we go" Tweet and all is good.
But I really don't understand the coming in here and talking about deals being off or going backwards because there hasn't been another positive tweet in the last 24 hours. It will happen when it happens, or it won't and we'll sign someone else. Either way I think this season is doomed for shitness so I'd be more worried about that.
€16 Million euro contract + the transfer fee amortized over the length of the contract (Assuming €40 million and a 3 year contract it will be 40/3 = 13.3)
€16 million + €13.3 Million = ~€30 million
You meant 69 didn’t you? You dirty boy. Absolute filth!
They don't need to, I'm not missing any point.
Maybe you should understand first what predicament they are actually in, and what they are intending to use the cash advance for, then maybe you would understand the point being made.
No one said they would use 400m for transfers and they won't have a 600m euro gap from the previous year either. 200m was added to the previous seasons revenue which meant the year no longer ended in a loss.
The idea for 22/23 books would be to ensure expenditure is less than revenue, hence the wage structure and cash injection into this years accounts.
So how do they register players for 23/24, easy they won't have an operating loss for 22/23 so with La Liga they should be fine as long as they manage the wage structure (which is why De Jongs wages are a big issue)
So 16m in salary space and 13.3 in amortised transfer fee, not 30m euros of salary space...
Although my heart tells me the club should do its best and take all the time it needs to bring FDJ in (because ETH obviously wants him as the marquee signing), if it doesn’t work we really should move on. Use the money to bring in a serviceable RB (rid AWB) and maybe another forward now that Ronaldo wants to leave. We can’t spend all summer chasing a unicorn who does not even want to come and tying down the budget leaving us very little time to tie down other deals.
Right so Lewa must have a sensible salary if he would cost 30m euros in FFP (which is the point I was making). Bare in mind that De Jong will take up 40m euros in salary alone (not including his amortised transfer fee)
The cash advance also explains why the are stalling on the De Jong sale since after it they would be able to spend 100% of any fee they receive, if they sell him before then they can only spend 30% of it
Donny will be vander bench for another year too.
I don't think it will be any one player, I don't think ten Hag is that stupid, more of a system rethink.
And if they wait they could add 100% instead of a third. His current wages though wont be 16m euros gross per season and that's the issue
So far Eriksen is the only that can potentially improve the team. Hard to find excitement for a backup left back when there's a need to fill the holes in ST, RW, RB, and the midfield.
No way he genuinely believes Scott is an option. Lad is so awful I honestly doubt he'd play for Brentford.
Precisely. He's very appealing to get rid of as he takes up a massive amount of space.
We should use Frankie money on other position and go into next season with McFred midfield
Unless he massively reduces his salary (which he of course won't) since his replacement would cost 85m euros+ if you believe reports and will command a good salary too.
Where as they have already payed off some of his transfer fee already, so if he reduced his wages it makes it more viable for them
Time will tell. I don't see why he should. I also think Barcelona doesn't really have a lot of interest in doing that anyway.
This guy has been nailing our recent business in advance
Also claims Eriksen's medical and announcement will be tomorrow and that we're aiming to complete the FDJ deal in time for the official kit reveal on Friday
Also claims Eriksen's medical and announcement will be tomorrow and that we're aiming to complete the FDJ deal in time for the official kit reveal on Friday
I'm skeptical.
Who is he?
So barca want their player to stay and take a reduced wage and they do it by negotiating a sale with another club even before talking to the player?
He was adamant that Timber was still joining up to last week, even after all the stories came out about his change of mind.
So pinch of salt.
I wounldn't be surprised though for the following reasons.
1. He is back from holiday
2. Barca will this week raise more cash (which I believe is what they have been stalling for)
We should use Frankie money on other position and go into next season with McFred midfield
You laugh, but honestly I think having a good RB will help Sancho on the RW. Last season the attacks on the right side simply died when AWB got the ball, or he was so poor in terms of attacking positioning that Sancho was asked to drive past multiple defenders on his own. As such teams defended more on the left knowing the right sided attacks were not that dangerous. There are many holes in our squad and midfield is merely one of them.
Midfield is our most pressing need by some distance, we're not just lacking in quality but it number as well if not De Jong then another midfielder.
Ross Harwood
Looking forward to Frenkie Friday
Cheers Geoff.
bit of an understatement eh?It's been awkward from the start
I'm starting to get a bad feeling about it. Meh, hopefully we sign him and he does great.
You’re in for a big surprise once you see Malacia play, I can guarantee you that.
I don’t disagree with that. Just hoping this doesn’t turn another a longer saga than it already is. If not FDJ hope we have a plan B and move on.
Ross has "Football Journalist" in his Twitter profile, but he seems to be more of an ITK than an actual journalist. We'll see what happens with him.
Yea but fingers crossed we'll get De Jong.
The live Twitter feed says that deferred covid payments to frenkie are holding up the deal. That and Barcelona havent managed to contact his agent for past few days.
Marca pushing this.
Marca pushing this.
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