Maybe we asked Barca to take Frenkie on tour to give him some more sun before he comes to Manchester? 
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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I hope the United staff is smart enough to have a backup when De Jong stays.
Have some faith!
For someone who doesn’t think this is going to happen, you’ve invested a lot of time in making the same point.
In fact, just in the last 24 hours you’ve told everyone “it ain’t happening” somewhere in these posts:
In fact, just in the last 24 hours you’ve told everyone “it ain’t happening” somewhere in these posts:
Thats why I am baffled they included him in thr squad to be fair
Would the go for him having Rodri and now Philips though?
Yes. But they do not need him now.
They couldnt possibly get Silva if they dont sell FDJ...Could they?
I think it’s obvious De Jong will join United but only if the money issue is resolved.
Sadly I don’t think the issue will be resolved any time soon and as such I don’t see it happening.
Sadly I don’t think the issue will be resolved any time soon and as such I don’t see it happening.
Because he's still their player and lets be fair, he's going to create publicity whilst they're out there...
"Will de Jong be playing this game, how much time willhe get, will he even be a sub" etc. At the end of the day, what would the benefit of leaving him behind be? They're not going to sort this wage issue out quickly, and it likely won't be done whilst they're on tour, but even if it is, he can come back to Europe quickly.
Whilst he's a Barca player, they can do whatever they want with him, leave him off the tour, bring him on the tour, send him home if they so desire...
So is Tielemans the back up?
I want this transfer to happen, there isn't another centre midfielder I'd want over him in world football at the moment considering our manager, I was quite optimistic in the beginning of the window but the way it's dragged on and the confusing actions of Barcelona have made me think that they either have a plan and a way to keep him or they're just completely incompetent and are going to have eggs on their face come registering time.
Hence the bad start
Lewa is confirmed.
I’m on this side now, couldn’t care less if he comes or not. Get players who want to come instead of ***** like this. Let him continue to underperform for Barca if that’s what he wantsFeck this guy
Let's get someone else.
Where?
Spot on there @Chief123
There are a few posters in this thread who are a complete disgrace to muppetville and should be banned from the next pursuit. I’d go as far to say as people need to pass tests before posting in these threads.
There are a few posters in this thread who are a complete disgrace to muppetville and should be banned from the next pursuit. I’d go as far to say as people need to pass tests before posting in these threads.
And it's been said that Silva will only be signed if FDJ leaves.
Midfield simply wasn't the reason we did badly last year.
We let in too many goals and didn't score enough. While midfield could be improved it certainly wasn't the reason alone.
With a better team stucture under ETH we will help in both ways.
I'm guessing it'll be Neves.
The thing is Barca want him to leave. They also want him to leave without taking his owed wages.
For Barca to achieve this, it wouldn’t make it more likely/probable that FDJ accepts this by alienating him and leaving him at home. There’s more likelihood it agitates him even more and more likely to become stubborn about it. It makes more sense for Barca to take him than to not, even if they don’t wish to keep him.
He played there for Dortmund
https://www.footballtransfers.com/e...-jadon-sancho-play-better-left-right-wing/amp
Every media outlet is confirming it.
Possibly but they are charging ahead with transfers regardless.
They really don't have a plan on keeping him. Let me ask you this... if they were desperate on keeping him why have they accepted a bid for him? Why have they gone to the effort of negotiating a deal with United for a larger fixed fee and addons if they were intent on keeping him and using him?
Why would they have said that they need to sell players for FFP reasons if their second lever enables them to keep them all? Why would they have said that de Jong needs to take another pay cut to stay if this second lever means that he really doesn't have too? Don't tell me they didn't know they were activating this when they made them comments.
It's my opinion that this lever will help them with their signings but the wages will still be an issue, regardless of being able to register or not
Not at all worried. Realistically don’t see him leaving Barca and £17m. However, if given the choice just think he’d prefer Chelsea, all be it unlikely.
What’s funny is you saying you can’t wait to see everyone’s meltdown when it doesn’t happen yet you’re having a personal meltdown of your own.
Try Moviprep
Screw you Barca simping Robert Webb lookalike. Never wanted him anyway.
Right. So not confirmed.
I’m with the newbie on this one. Honestly it’s not worth all this hassle. There are players out there that can offer a similar role
There aren’t actually.
Not that it means much at all but the odds on him staying at Barca have gone from 2/1 to evens in 24 hours.
We're not signing Kimmich or Verratti, though
I am now fully on-board with this line of thinking after being very skeptical of him wanting to come here when the transfer first broke. There's just no way the new manager and club would be willing to spend all this time on an important position if he genuinely didn't want to come. Would they...
This is what I'm choosing to believe, anyway.
It was a BIG reason why we looked poor though and it's not the sort of problem you can keep brushing under a carpet. We've done it since the Fergie era and look where we are now.
Yes Ten Hag's coaching will improve us but it can only do so much if the quality isn't there and you can't look at our current CM options and think it's top 4 quality. Like I told you in an earlier post if we can't get FDJ we should sign someone else not wait a year for a player who isn't keen on joining us hoping he *might join us. He's not worth the Sancho treatment
It's not happening lads, let's forget about it and sign Bissouma and Richarlison for about the same price.
Bissouma
Fred - Eriksen/Bruney
Sanchos - Richarlison - Rashford /Marital
Looks really good
Bissouma
Fred - Eriksen/Bruney
Sanchos - Richarlison - Rashford /Marital
Looks really good
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