Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Exactly, which is why I asked asked you to discuss replacements. . .Well for starters this is a discussion forum, am I right?
So we buy McGinn & he is better than McTominay. Then what? Is he capable of being as good as we’d want from an FdJ? No. Is he particularly well suited to what we’ve seen from EtH teams previously? No but. . . he’s better than McTominay so let’s spend 10s of millions & give a player a multi year contract.
McGinn is a starting midfielder for a rich EPL side, you’ve made the assumption he’ll come A) Cheaper than FdJ; B) Easily. If you could port McGinn in & McTominay out then I think most would do so but given he’d have little to no longevity to EtH spending countless millions on a better McTominay is smart move how?
The age old Caf tactic of conflating a different topic into the original one. FdJ isn’t being signed to displace McFred entirely, we’ve lost a few CMs in the last few years & need a midfielder to add to what we have already. The phase out of either is at least a season away.
FdJ &/or his replacement aren’t simpler there to be better than McFred but let’s take your argument further, say we get in any midfielder you like [although you take offence at being asked to name one] & they’re good 5-7 times out of 10. What do we do with them next Summer when we chase an FdJ type again? You’ll be making the same cries to replace them with a 7-9 out 10 player.
The argument we need to improve on McFred is valid [I’m not a big fan myself] but you don’t go from FdJ to any midfielder better than McFred. That’s what’s fanciful, not their names.
Says the man fixating on any player better than a below standard McFred. . .
Bringing in more average midfielders to displace our average midfielders wouldn’t halt the downward trend though, it would exacerbate it. You don’t seek out players that do well 5-7 times out of 10.
I agree we are not one player away, that said we’re also not a bunch of cost 5-7 out of 10 players away either.
Feel free to mention suitable replacements at any point.
If De Jong doesn't come @Berbaclass has to go fam
Set a thread up in the general with a poll by all means. It doesn’t warrant a poll in what will be the longest transfer thread of all time
You're right, my favourite moment is when they got pumped 4-0 in the UCL final
**** mentality.
And he's ugly as hell to boot. Boot face.
Alvaro's just doing his job, mate.
You’ll never get me. I’m slippier than a trout in a dishwasher fam
Oh man, feels a bit like this thread is on its Arse tonight. We need a tweet or a rumour to liven things up around here before we start arguing over who dies first, or who kills who
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...100MILLION-amid-Man-United-Arsenal-Spurs.html
I admit this is only the Fail but it was reported in other places too and it is a direct quote from Lage. I would not go for him at 50M when there are better players available at that price or a little below such as Bennacer. He is decent on the ball but not the best defensively and he makes Maguire look positively rapid.
Don't worry Barcelona play Madrid in the early hours, we can dissect where Frenkie plays all over againOh man, feels a bit like this thread is on its Arse tonight. We need a tweet or a rumour to liven things up around here before we start arguing over who dies first, or who kills who
Its quiet, too quiet.
People joke but if his name was John de Ginn we'd be all over him
As long as he'd played for Ajax of course.
As long as he'd played for Ajax of course.
This is what I’m clinging onto. Don’t get me wrong I still Believe he will sign, but even the banter seems to have dried up today. Curse you lot having lives in the real world. Bastards.Don't worry Barcelona play Madrid in the early hours, we can dissect where Frenkie plays all over again
Imagine if he didn't sign and all the optimists among us were deleted? This place would be depressing!Any of the other muppets joining the bet? Some seem incredibly confident that it's 100% going to happen. Time to put your necks on the line.
Could do a mass clearout and have a yes/no poll, whichever gets it wrong gets deleted
We could call the place NegCafe... home of all the negative muppets. Every transfer thread would be full of muppets shitting over the club and the board, calling them amateurs and morons.
Any news today then?
Nothing new mate
Nope.
Whereas if he signs, we could call it RedLaugh and it'd be full of blind optimism, rainbows and unicorns!!
We’re all staying up til 4am to see if he waves at all during the Barca game
Rainbows don’t exist
Frenkie is apparently sad and lonely. Barca are spunking more money on shiny toys leading to muppets questioning whether de Jong is closer to joining.
Thread title has seen a new update too it seems haha
He's gonna look into the camera and go all Leo DiCaprio on our arses
"I'm not going... I'm not fecking going"
"Laporta you paella eating prick, you're gonna have to drag me out of this club kicking and screaming, cos I'm not fecking going, the show goes on" he flips the bird and walks off.
Me: "It's so fecking on!!" Haha
Muppets go into meltdown
His coming. No news is okay.
**UPDATE**
Mother has the candles lit.
He. Shall. Come.
Mother has the candles lit.
He. Shall. Come.
We don't need that kind of negativity in RedLaugh. You sure you're on the right side?
This one is in the bag.
Sounds amazing. Sign me up!
Could be true but £50m is quite a lot for Wolves to turn down. I think he’s worth that much but if we can actually get better players for less, why not? The point is we might not get FDJ but we really need to strengthen CM. It is a significant problem.
£100m for Neves eh... Yeaaah... Nah.
He's better than what we have, but £100m worth?? Feck that
As they say... no news is good news.
I'm still quite shocked that Sport haven't been at it now for a few days... have Barca stopped feeding them news?
Barca been too busy fiddling the accounts to get Kounde in.
Can’t afford to
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