The only levers they have left by then will be the ones in the toilets.
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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No and we shouldn't back out of this one either. But the protracted nature of it and the comments it is attracting are beginning to make us look like idiots - and that's not nothing.
Choccy? Is that you?!
Choccy? Is that you?!
Not even funny mate, he sounded totally ITK!
Whatever happens this summer I think we need to tell Barcelona to do one going forwards. They’ve dicked us about on a deal they asked us to join in the first place! They’re the footballing equivalent of Homer in this clip:
Having Barca as your first choice does not equate to not wanting to come to United.
And can’t see him pissing about in a World Cup year.
They'll even sell them if they think they can get a few euros for them
So basically ‘what would the neighbours think’ and ‘won’t somebody think of the children’. It’s of no concern to the club when they have done all they can and are reliant on 3rd parties to resolves their issues to complete the deal. We will pretty much carry on regardless.
Some of the replies trying to justify this are quite hilarious. They've really drunk the Kool-Aid.
Reputational damage matters. I'm not saying pull out but it's still a problem.
Did he look anything like Laporta?
Slight resemblance, now that you mention it!
Thats enough for me!
Easiest billion plus dollars that Sixth Street has ever made
I assume there is a reason why "Loan with Obilgation" hasn't been explored ?
By Barca? Because they need revenue/income to get around La Liga's FFP.
Obviously a loan, and a chilled Summer where they go back to basics and trust in youth would've been miles better, but it's fecking Lewandowski mother feckers!!!!
Yes, today will be a monumental day.
Exactly. People are quick to ring the bell because they are natures moaners. They will also be the first to shout ETH out when things take too long to come to plan
Now isn’t the time for Mass, now is the time for ACTION!
The only people looking like idiots are the people who keep saying it. ETH would have walked long ago if he didn’t receive encouragement that there’s a chance of movement. Think about it
auction nights the new idea:
who wants a dinner with a Barca star?
place your bid now
who wants a dinner with a Barca star?
place your bid now
But surely there is a structure to the loan deal that can work for us and them? If it is an obligation to buy and we are saying that it is a.transfer fee of £75million then we could in effect pay a loan fee of £30mil and then another £35mil next summer with the £10mil in add ons?
I know football transfers don't exactly "work" like that. But Barca surely aren't getting £65million off of us in one payment this year anyway so why not just look at the structure of it all, give Barcelona a year to figure out the mess and then we effectively drain a year off his Barcelona deal and tie him to his long term deal next summer?
Bravo
Well yes but he's going to look a proper charley if it doesn't happen. Innocent newcomer from the pigfarmer league gets played - not by Barca but by FdJ's agent.
Look I'm still for chasing this one now we're this far in, but it feels like a bad way of doing business and it feels like it's gone sour.
I bid 17m for dinner with Frenkie. In Manchester. At Old Trafford.
Laporta is picking up my tab btw…
You’re in favour of bad business gone sour?!
You need to think about this, get your story straight and quit whinging about things that aren’t happening.
He's already pretty much said if we don't sign Frenkie that we'll just develop one of ours to fill the role and that there are very few players like that of sufficient quality around. I don't think there is any plan b to Frenkie in terms of signings.
I think people are still struggling to grasp this concept. Ten Hag knows what he's doing. He's not stupid, he'd have gotten assurances before getting the board to start negotiations, and I imagine that at any point during the transfer, if de Jong has a change of heart, ala Timber, he'd back away and call it off.
I completely trust that Ten Hag knows if de Jong wants to come or not. If it's true that they're in regular contact, if anything was to change you can guarantee he'd know.
It's true though isn't it haha.
I'm pretty sure this will come to bite Barca on the arse sooner rather than later. If they have a bad spell on the pitch they'll absolutely feel it off the pitch
Big tune
Because the £17m he is owed is due to be paid back by them this year and they don't want to do that. A loan wouldn't solve that conundrum and I'll be damned if we pay it for them
I think they will always qualify for the champions league because even last season when they were very very average they qualified quite easily in the end. The league just isn't as competitive as England or Italy where a bad season can easily see you drop out of the top 4.
The 8th Lever of Death (死門, Shimon) is located at the heart. Users open this lever by puncturing their chest with their thumb in order to direct the cash flow there. While open, the user's heart pumps at maximum speed, granting them loans a hundred times greater than they are usually capable of receiving, far beyond that of the Super League founding clubs. A "Steam of Blood" (血の蒸気, Chi no Jōki) is emitted from the user's pores and hair, resembling a flaming red KDB-like aura. Opening this lever allows the user to perform the Evening Elephant and Night Laporta. The eighth lever causes the body to continually heat up until it's been cooked from the inside-out, reducing La Masia to ash.
Not all about quantity bro, I've been here for 8 years, just 6 years before you catch up "newb"Only 1806 posts to go!
Over 700 posts in here when 7 would have covered the developments so far
By the way, I had to wait until today to reply, I had used up my newb posting quota for yesterday haha
Smash that like button to stop this travesty ever reoccurring!
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