Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap

Frenkie to United?

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TheGame said:
Eh? If he doesn’t leave, Barca can’t register their signed players so he gets a massive wage hike next season and they get left with 2 players on the sidelines. Not a blinder at all.
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We’ve played a blinder keeping De Jong!

Yeah but Christensen, Kessie and any other signing that comes in can’t actually play for Barcelona because of De Jong’s wages…

All round solid win.
 
marcus agrippa said:
I'm sorry, what?

How can we be on the hook for what they owe a player they signed to a stupid contract? In what world would that even make sense?

(Not addressed to you personally, just the sheer cheek of Barca to even suggest such a thing.)
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It's not completely nonsensical...
In theory barca had a plan in place to pay Frenkie over a longer timescale, then we come in looking to buy him.
Barca are saying OK we have agreed a fee for his sale, but we can't afford to pay him what we owe right now, so if you want him you will have to pay, or help pay, that for us.
 
Pscholes18 said:
Why not Utd pay the 13 mil for Barca? Then Barca owes Utd the money in installments?
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Sure, why not. They can reduce the fee we're willing to pay by whatever amount they owe him. We then pay him as part of his wages over the course of his contract.
The other option is he sues the feck out of Barca for his past wages which they will have to pay regardless of whether he's still employed by them or not.
I can see them wanted him to sign an agreement stating he relieves them of all past wages if he's sold but I'd hope he wouldn't be daft enough to do that.
 
peridigm said:
Sure, why not. They can reduce the fee we're willing to pay by whatever amount they owe him. We then pay him as part of his wages over the course of his contract.
The other option is he sues the feck out of Barca for his past wages which they will have to pay regardless of whether he's still employed by them or not.
I can see them wanted him to sign an agreement stating he relieves them of all past wages if he's sold but I'd hope he wouldn't be daft enough to do that.
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The legal action is only viable if Barcelona don’t insist as part of his sale that the buying club pay those wages, which it sounds like the definitely are. They won’t leave themselves open to getting sued if he leaves. He’s probably have to stay there until his contract runs out before he could sue them, I would bet the contract states the money is payable on his release from the club.
 
mazhar13 said:
I'm guessing you're referring to this article, right? Here's the relevant passage:


Basically, Chelsea want to involve Frenkie de Jong in the departures of Marcos Alonso and Azpilicueta. Barcelona want to make €80m out of the sale, and Chelsea want to offer €60m + both of the full backs. There's no mention of Barcelona rejecting this in the literal sense, but I can see how this passage can imply that Barcelona want cash only. Someone with a good grasp of Catalan can probably help us out here.
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You don't need to know Catalan to know that Barcelona are not going to want players in return when they can't even register their new signings, let alone have another 2 more.
 
elmo said:
You don't need to know Catalan to know that Barcelona are not going to want players in return when they can't even register their new signings, let alone have another 2 more.
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They're still quite keen on Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso. Edu Polo also reported today that Barcelona want to seal the Azpilicueta signing before they go on their pre-season tour.
 
Will really end up with egg on our faces if Chelsea nab him and no plan B at all, be major setback for Ten Hag and his rebuild
 
What about Barca refrain from buying Raphinha and Lewandowski and they use the funds to pay their pending bills Instead?
 
is this the worst transfer saga we’ve had? I’m sure I enjoyed the Pogba and Sancho ones more, this feels flat, or am I just getting too old for this?!
 
duffer said:
No idea if Chelsea are in for De Jong but Barca are absolutely in for Azpi and Alonso.
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I do love how they continue to go for players whilst knowing they can't actually afford them. Top notch stuff.

Maybe Barca are using the fact people know they're in for Azpi and Alonso along with Chelseas fleeting interest to build a story about a player + cash deal for de Jong. Enough to force United to act maybe? Probably very unlikely but still
 
Hopefully, de Jong and Ronaldo aren't playing for Tuchel next season. Let's get this transfer over the line.
 
hellhunter said:
Is the source any good? Seems like someone reading the caf and easing the minds of faint hearted muppets :lol:
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Not really. He's typically on El Chiringuito, so that should give you enough of an idea on how reliable he is.
 
We are meeting his agent in London?
Could have saved the bus fare and spoke to him when he was at Carrington the other day for Malacia haha.
Everyone tweets so much crap, very little to be believed these days.
 
Barcelona watched us get taken to the cleaners by Leicester for Maguire, no wonder they think we're easy marks. Imagine getting DeJong for less than we paid for Maguire. Madness.
 
elmo said:
You don't need to know Catalan to know that Barcelona are not going to want players in return when they can't even register their new signings, let alone have another 2 more.
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I'd imagine receiving a massive fee for FDJ on top of getting his wages off the payroll can help matters, no?
 
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