Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Depends on what this really means. Would he rather stay at barca but is open to moving to united if he is forced out? I think that's fine personally.
Would be great to see, at the very least! Unfortunately I think they’ll (with our involvement in some capacity) come to a compromise at some point and Barcelona will get away with it. Lever pulling wankers
Your not being serious are you? if you were owed €17milllion, would you just walk away from that or compromise? Nah, feck Barcelona, get every euro your owed by the club. Screw up their summer transfer window if you have to. Just get paid.
Bringing it to some semblance of reality who would leave their workplace and go to another job if they were owed £170,000 by your current employer? No one would walk away without getting every penny.
Feck football. Get paid.
If my work owed me £100 I'd be fecking chasing that cheddar until my dying breath.
Exactly, it's not like he is going to retire from football if Barca force him out.
Pogbas new tattoo.
Yeah screw Barca by becoming their Bale or Aubameyang except you're just 25.
Career or money
If he won't join then we've really fecked this one up. Surely we wouldn't still be working on this if he didn't want to come, especially given that he's supposedly been in "daily" contact with Ten Hag? Also been dealing closely with his agent.
I’ve just arrived in Manchester. Will keep a look out for large white sheets.
You should get yourself over to Coopers hill with that kind of cheese commitment.
The Barcelona offer to Frenkie de Jong is an insult to both the player and the game
https://www.football365.com/news/opinion-barcelona-offer-frenkie-de-jong-insult-player-game
Manchester or Alabama?
Guys, there are only two potential ways, at least as I can tell, that the wages owned are an issue:
1. FDJ wants them upfront and Barcelona are willing to pay them in installments.
2. FDJ and his agent are idiots and he signed an anex that is entirely in Barca's favour and FDJ will lose the money if he leaves.
Since I find 2 highly unlikely, either 1 is the issue or there are other factors that journos are unaware of.
1. FDJ wants them upfront and Barcelona are willing to pay them in installments.
2. FDJ and his agent are idiots and he signed an anex that is entirely in Barca's favour and FDJ will lose the money if he leaves.
Since I find 2 highly unlikely, either 1 is the issue or there are other factors that journos are unaware of.
Yes, like we saw with Ous in last winter, when he became the most important player during seasons second half...
At this rate their absolute financial ruin seems a near certainty. In addition to Raphinha they are almost certain to get Lewandowski and Kounde, could barely register or pay players, can't pay what FDJ, Busquets and Pique are owed. The decision making there is absolute madness.
Are Barca still hoping to find enough levers to pull so that they can sign Raphinha and Lewa without selling De Jong?
Right so you think that Barca, instead of paying him ~€17m in deferred wages and getting about £65m in transfer fee plus moving ~€70m off their books in wages would rather try and scapegoat Frenkie and not play him again whilst still being 100% on the hook for all his wages and probably a fair number of bonuses for the next 4 years.
Have some common sense.
Barca are just trying to save a few million quid by negotiating how much of the deferred wages they will pay to Frenkie. Even if Frenkie stood firm and said "I want 100% of them" I think Barca will capitulate. They want shiny new signings to divert from the fact the club is a complete mess. Its worked with United for years. As long as you are signing players every summer the fans will forgive you running the rest of the club like a clown show for the most part.
I don’t think they could, they don’t have the wiggle room in their wage budget, especially if Frenkie doesn’t agree to a pay cut (and he shouldn’t)
fair enough, maybe I deserved that.**sigh**
Fingers crossed.
Pink or brown?
He'd fit in quite well at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium too.
Well that sucks
I think they need him to accept the wage cut if he’s staying which apparently he has no intention of doing.
They can’t keep him on his current wage.
I’d just pay - little extra as part of Barcelona’s bill and get this over and done with it.
It feels like a transfer that if doesn’t happen this window then it will never happen at all
It feels like a transfer that if doesn’t happen this window then it will never happen at all
He said the same thing last night, posting it off as new news.
Funny how he's the only one to know this, but Uniteds top brass are still in Barcelona sorting this out.
But because it's Romano, people will believe it as truth and meltdown will occur soon
It seems as though they are taking this stance to ensure FDJ gets paid the money he is owed.
The ball is in Barcas court again and they will need to pay it or come to an agreement with United on the outstanding monies.
It’s frustrating but don’t think there’s anything new here.
But we wouldn't be chasing him they said
Aren’t they in amsterdam now? Or is that tomorrow
He prefers the playa/paella and money over football. So be it, Frank; enjoy that bench while you watch Pedri and Gavi reap all the glory.
Another big non-update from Romano. Romero will be along soon to say THINGS ARE HAPPENING!!!
Aubameyang on 400k euros a week too, and Lewandowski will therefore surely be on 500k. Moving negligently at this point.
Also, it's reported that ten Hag is in communication with de Jong regularly. Do you not think he'd know by now if this was true? Do you not think he'd walk away if he didn't have the assurances he needs?
Still if de Jong wants to stay, he has to accept a huge pay cut. He won't accept that. So to be fair, Barca will do all they can to force him out, legally.
Still if de Jong wants to stay, he has to accept a huge pay cut. He won't accept that. So to be fair, Barca will do all they can to force him out, legally.
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