The exact wording was:
You forgetting that he needs to take a massive wage cut on a new contract to stay at Barca?
Does his contract say you forfeit your pending salary if you leave the club?
Well that's the issue. They can't register Christensen or Kessie until they offload some wages or convince players to take a pay cut. So they have to force De Jong out if this transfer is going to happen.
My interpretation of it all is still that they agreed on an outline of how much Barca wants and we have made two bids but they are not happy with the structure of them still.
They fecking do if they don't pull the plug sharpish and start drawing up a list of backup targets immediately.
None of us can realistically answer this.
They're his dream club in the same way Madrid was Ronaldo's dream club. Plus he has a great relationship with Xavi who is also one of his idols.
Nah, from what I understand, he's told Barcelona that if they want to sell him to United, he wants the deferred wages they owe him. Barca have then told United that they'll accept the bid for the player but United will also have to pay him the deferred wages Barcelona owe him, to which United have said "no chance" that's your agreement with your player and nothing to do with us.
I think all these points mentioned are what we actually are doing.
You can hate the upper management and still love the institution. It's a situation that I'm sure a lot of United fans have found themselves in under the Glazers. Some buggered off to support FC United or some other club, but the vast majority stayed, because the club is bigger than the people currently running it.
Yep, I think it rumbles on all summer. Maybe even past that into January.
Of course we all go by media talk. No one really knows what is going behind the scenes.
Well De Jong doesn't want to leave Barcelona but he will join United if they want to sell him and also pay him his deferred wages. Barcelona are just to make the wages United's problem instead of theirs.
I think we can hazard a guess with reasonable certainty: the answer is yes, they owe him the money wherever he goes. Anyone who has ever bought a house knows there is a big, complicated dance involving the banks, and that's over only a million bucks and 2 people. In this case, Barcelona is trying to pay DeJong with money they don't actually have. They are trying to get us to include it somehow in the purchase, but that increases our liabilities, so we are not taking on their debt. It's not like both clubs are walking in with suitcases of cash. The banks and money managers who are overseeing this are treating it as two separate deals, whereas Barcelona is trying to treat it as one omnibus package. DeJong, for his part, is owed his deferred payment, but any monies he would have received after being sold, are clearly not what Barcelona consider their responsibility, and that's probably what they are arguing: if we sold DeJong this year without those deferred payments, the additional terms of his contract would be rendered moot, or would be rendered subject to the provisions of his new contract with United.
Sounds like a convenient excuse to see if he can stay at Barca. If Barca owes him wages and it is in the contract that they pay him now or later, then he can go to court to get paid.
It would be a kick in the bollocks but at least we wouldn't have to keep watching Liverpool or City win the league
For sure it is, he doesn't want to leave and wants Barcelona to force the issue, which they're not, which is why this one will run until they sort themselves out or they force the issue.
They do supposedly want Rice and Bellingham next year though.
Exactly. If there was indeed anything in this, then we'd be getting a report from one of the Chelsea-affiliated journalists by now (not referring to Matt Law and Jacob Steinberg here).
