Barca are in some shite aren't they? There's no way they'd be discussing a transfer for him in normal circumstances. He would absolutely transform our midfield!
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Perfect storm? Barca need money and use him wrongly. He’s happy to leave because he’s being played out of position and knows ETH will get the best out of him in a much more influential deeper position.
Make Hughes?
CHOO CHOO! Hell yeah
I think so too. Sensational business if we pull it off.
If he joins that's a good sign we are willing to back ETH this summer. Need an athletic grafter next to him though, someone like Tchouameni would be perfect.
Tchouameni
FDJ - Bruno
Not a bad group if we go this way.
Tchouameni
FDJ - Bruno
Not a bad group if we go this way.
How bad ass would we be if we got Frenkie then hijaacked Lewa? 
Oh yeah that's right, I thought we rebought him from bayern but it seems he was loane there.
Pointless, we don't need another ancient striker.How bad ass would we be if we got Frenkie then hijaacked Lewa?
Not sure of the source
EXCL: Manchester United have made a €65m offer for Frenkie de Jong, according to someone close to the deal. Barcelona is considering it
EXCL: Manchester United have made a €65m offer for Frenkie de Jong, according to someone close to the deal. Barcelona is considering it
I'm guessing that is a shite source sadly.
What’s his record with injuries? He’d transform our midfield but I’d like another couple of midfielders in too.
Won’t matter, the second he turns up at United his leg will fall off.
https://www.transfermarkt.com/frenkie-de-jong/verletzungen/spieler/326330
Not to bad, missed some games here and there.
Does Victor Valdes count? We got Pique from them before selling him back.
Theres a couple of others that played for both with a gap in between Sanchez, Ibrahimovic and Henrik Larsson played for both of us for a while.
Neither should count as we didn't buy them per say.
Reading the responses in the tweet from the barca fans, almost everyone said the same thing "87m for Maguire", they dont want to sell cheaper than Maguire.
Oh yeah, no doubt. But we're in a privileged position on one hand where we can set that as a pre requisite, and a bad position on the other where our squad is so rotten that we need to do that to rebuild this squads mentality to a healthy state.
Think of Evra, Vidic, RVP etc - how did they feel about moving to United? Were they delighted or just doing it for the paycheque? I think getting that back is an important factor in recruitment going forward, but appreciate that some will disagree.
Don't think this will happen but if we do all of a sudden sign him it won't be long until De Ligt follows I'd put money on that.
Not sure that would be the best idea personally. Would prefer a quicker centre half.
Is Laurie Whitwell reliable?
Yes
He's no Ornstein/Stone/Nurse but he's pretty good.
He is but I couldn't find the original comment from him, just the mention from the utdreport tweet. Unless it's an article on the Athletic which I haven't got access to.
I think he’s up there with them tbh. The Athletic is clearly number 1 now in terms of a ‘newspaper’. BBC seems to be slow, but rarely do they get it wrong. It’s more important to be right than first, etc
I’m starting to feeling like this done and all this stuff from the press and Barca are just going through the motions.
Thanks @sewey89. Good to see a reliable source.
Looking forward to the next podcast! Great source this.
Yes, he has multiple sources and attends uniteds press conferences.
That's just pure nonsense. Chelsea are on 70 points which is just 12 points more than us. That's 3 more wins from our worst season we ever had and we would comfortably fighting for 3rd. Now if you really think we can't get that, then I rest my case.
Closest I can get is 50% if you went stupidly layman terms. Chelsea, United, Spurs and Arsenal going for top 4 would put it at 50/50
This is all ignoring the fact that England most probably would have 5 spots next year.
Lewa doesnt play as an ancient striker and is a fitness freak. He will be good for atleast 3 more years.
There's also the reality that De Jong hasn't exactly performed to his expectations for their midfield.
Then consider the mercurial talent of Pedri, Busquets is still sufficient in his position. Gavi an emerging talent and Kessie coming into fold.
No thanks
He's as good as they come for United
Bit of that, bit of de Jong not being their future (Pedri/Gavi is their future, which needs a very different #6). Which isn't to say they are better than De Jong or have higher potential (it's close in reality), but they are just more "Barca" than De Jong. So might as well recoup 70m while in financial trouble and get his huge wages off the bill while basically still having the same future plan.
Just announce the inevitable transfer already Probably waiting for the season to end
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