This wobble is separating the wet blankets from the true believers. Be gone, naysayers. You don't get to celebrate when he arrives in the muppetcopter, with Rio at ground level letting off fire works that spell out a gigantic number 5.
Matthijs de Ligt / signs for Juventus, lowering their average age to 56
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Yup but a reputed one. He's a MU fan. Take away is most reliable journos doesn't see us signing de ligt.
Occasionally he does give United news.
Fair enough but its multiple people commenting now
Sam Lee said the same.
Apart from the reddit ITK's (......) and one report from the Barce journo nearly everybody had dismissed the news.
Same guy that said in January that De Jong to PSG is done?
Did... people... actually believe there was a chance we'd sign de Ligt? I always considered this thread to be the Transfer Forum equivalent of the Random Chat Thread.
Stay strong Muppets! There are always some negative news after the initial positive reports.
Was he wrong about that? De Jong said himself that he was on the verge of joining PSG.
Feck it, I’m giving Ed a call
Yes, he was wrong, because it wasn't done, was it?
Would be very surprised if we were still able to pull signings like these off. With the state we are in, it's the Longstaffs we are going to get.
So, it didn't even last for one day?
News changes very fast during muppet season - remember the trials and tribulations we faced when Pogba was rumoured to do a Pogback? This is early days yet in the de ligt saga - have faith!
Excellent though Simon Stone is, his tweet doesn't amount to much more than his analysis of the situation. That analysis being what the smart money was always on anyway, which is that De Ligt is ultimately Barca-bound.
That doesn't contradict the reports that we're in for De Ligt, or had a bid accepted, or that we've offered De Ligt a contract. We always knew that even with all that being true, De Ligt could still likely end up at Barca.
So I don't see what's changed?
That doesn't contradict the reports that we're in for De Ligt, or had a bid accepted, or that we've offered De Ligt a contract. We always knew that even with all that being true, De Ligt could still likely end up at Barca.
So I don't see what's changed?
English journo’s aren’t getting any information from Man United — that’s a fact. Look at the past few windows. Only Castles had some success with us.
Romero got his information from Barca, who would have no need to disclose that particular bit of information. Unless, they wanted to peddle that ‘mes un club’ babble and say he eventually chose football and not money. I really doubt that’s the case, though.
Romero got his information from Barca, who would have no need to disclose that particular bit of information. Unless, they wanted to peddle that ‘mes un club’ babble and say he eventually chose football and not money. I really doubt that’s the case, though.
Do you see him with a Barcelona shirt?
I have no sympathy, only detest for Woodward. Remember the story where someone recorded de legit and De Jong to Woodward and was subsequently left because he wouldn't take his advice?
Dunno what Luckhurst's cred is. But...
If any so-called muppet loses faith now, they should be named and shamed in the OP under the Muppet Hall of Shame.
Stay strong, this isn't over until an official announcement is made. We all know these things go down to the wire, regardless of what a journo says
He probably gets 100s of similar reports/advices from our scouts every transfer window. We can't sign everyone.
Doesn’t really say much regarding the current situation
Course we can pull signings like these off. Pogba and Micky weren't tricked to coming here.
Yeah we have a policy where we only track one CB at any given time.
No.
Well they're all coming out distancing us from De Ligt now
Seems Ed's been doing a bit of briefing this morning.
The 5% chance of this happening is basically non existent.
Seems Ed's been doing a bit of briefing this morning.
The 5% chance of this happening is basically non existent.
Run poorly, transfer strategy all over the place, out prized for every player, run like total clowns running the show and thus there is no transparency in clubs working. If they get the inside scoops, the fan base will be shocked and have a meltdown.
Right on. And pre-banned from the De Ligt announcement thread. Its a lot of admin legwork, but justified.
Checked Barcelona forums and their fans actually are actually worse, eating into every journo rumor like it's the absolute truth.
Bollocks. It would be all over the BBC if true.
People have woken up this morning to see the shitstorm reddit and this place caused with #DeLi5t and now everyone's jumping on the bandwagon with their 'take' to make themselves relevant and people follow them
Let's see then
We may be run poorly but I think it's independent of how we treat the press.
No one had a jump on the Lukaku news for example, it came out of nowhere. I know he's not liked on the forum but he was nailed on for Chelsea until we swooped and no one got a whiff. That was very well executed.
In a way I'm almost glad that this charade of De Ligt coming or not coming will be over sooner rather than the end of the window.
Don't worry, chaps. Howard Nurse will be here soon, to tell us that we're about to face him in the Europa League final, and that he's one to keep an eye on for the future. Then it's back on.
It would be all over BBC is we was actually interested.
Nobody outside the one Barcelona journo and some reddit itk's (.....feck me) have reported us going for him, he's nailed on for Barce and has been for months. He's getting that extra 40k a week before signing the deal.
But by all means keep believing, the disappointment will be all the sweeter.
If endorsed by my fellow muppets, I will heartily lead the way to Muppethalla where only the strong may go.
For all the fellow muppets who believe, WITNESS ME!!
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