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Matthijs de Ligt / signs for Juventus, lowering their average age to 56
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I wonder what'll it take to see a thread title change? Other than an announcement of which club he's joining I mean.
You could probably say this for almost 99% of tweeters.
There should definitely be an accountability wash up at the end.
It'd go
Luckhurst - you made these 73 claims in the summer.
65 of them were wrong, and he should be taken to account for it.
July 16th it'll change to "Matthijis De-ligted to sign for....Barcelona" - THREAD LOCKED.
And the "which centreback" thread will take a thrashing as we have 2 weeks to get any old bastad in
99% chance of joining Barca should be the thread title.
Shit the bed on Maguire.
That's a he'll of a long wait for some shite news.
I really hope Woodward is in his weekday pyjamas somewhere, smoking a cigar knowing that Wan Bissaka, De Ligt, a top right winger and a great centre mid option are all wrapped up, and just to be revealed.
Imagine ending up paying a higher fee than last summer for him!
Or when there is a "significant development" reported by DiMarzio on June 2nd.
"big news coming in the next 48 hours".
Oh well,another 31 of those type updates and it'll be the new season.
We could see if Felliani is available for CB
So do Bayern tbf and it doesn't stop some thinking they're strong contenders for De Ligt's signature. Still, I'm with you on that one, think he wants La Liga/Premier League.
Yeah, Bayern are a much bigger club than PSG though, and the Bundesliga is better than Ligue 1 IMV. Though I agree, if you're a top talent and have your pick of clubs, it's only really the Premier League or La Liga surely.
One should be aware of that its a lot of comparing apples with oranges when it comes to salaries being reported. Spanish media likes to report net salaries focusing on how much the player is pocketing while English media likes to focus on the total cost for the club.
Then you have countries like France and my homeland Sweden where the gross salary is not the only cost for the club, but there is also a payroll tax around 30 percent or so (In Sweden its 32 percent). Which means that a Neymar who makes (just as an example) 500k gross a week, costs PSG maybe 650k or so including payroll tax per week, but no one reports anything but the gross salary. Which is what you pay income tax on. In Sweden at least, I should not speak for the French but I think its the same.
What I can say with pretty big certainty is that it will cost PSG more to offer De Ligt a gross salary of 250k a week than it will United.
In addition to this you have all of the incentives, etc, which makes it really difficult to say what the wage value of the contract really is.
In the best of worlds UEFA would force its member clubs to be transparent about the wages paid to each individual player and adapt a common principle of declaring wages.
What’s that got to do with De Ligt?
They play in the Champions League, which De Ligt said he wanted to do if he moved.
Why so precious?
I'm talking about the present. Do you believe Barça and Real are better than Liverpool at this very moment?
@ClubMitjanit: DE LIGT/GRIEZMANN ️ Lluís Canut: "Mino Raiola vol el millor contracte per De Ligt, i això el jugador s'ho ha acabat creient. El Barça no es mourà més en la seva oferta" "Griezmann és el principal favorit per la davantera, però no està tancat ni decidit" #ClubMitjanit https://t.co/AA6p2Ahylv
Mino Raiola wants the best possible contract for De Ligt. Barça have made their final proposal and will not improve that. [CAT Radio]
Mino Raiola wants the best possible contract for De Ligt. Barça have made their final proposal and will not improve that. [CAT Radio]
Sounds like you’ll be getting Eriksen and Pogba will be ours for a while yet then.
Nice to hear.
Really never saw you guys forking out €150mish for him anyway though.
I am hoping that the fact that our links to other CB's have died down and both we and Ajax have also gone quiet has parallels to our recent transfer history where once we have something tied down it is the quiet before the storm.
The English press are all quiet too. Only Spanish press are talking and not one of them is saying they are close.
The English press are all quiet too. Only Spanish press are talking and not one of them is saying they are close.
If I'm not mistaken, they're also reporting that Griezmann is looking good for Barca.
way too low. Holland - England itself is likely gonna generate a good 50 alone
Yep. And many of the reports sound like the same sort of face-saving releases that came out before we signed Pogba.
Your optimism is almost admirable folks. He isn't signing for us and you all know that.
Google translate :
"Griezmann is the main favorite in the lead, but it is not closed nor decided"
Your pessimism is understandable, we have been stung many many times. I still have hope until its clear we are out.
Apparently the last tweet is tier 2 according to reddit.
No we don’t and Nani isn’t crap !
It's not even pessimism but rationale behind Raiola, Ajax-Barca ties, our current predicament and doing 'for'/'against' between Barca and us now from De Ligt's perspective.
So what if he doesn't come? At least it keeps the summer ticking over. Gives us hope and something to look forward to.
I wonder what joy the doom mongers get from saying, "he's not coming"?!
I wonder what joy the doom mongers get from saying, "he's not coming"?!
Nani was/is a terrific footballer, my tagline was a banter from mods (Nani fans) at the time I dared to say Valencia is a good player (around 2011).
It's fun. I was happy to be given it, actually. Was a big thing for barely a main at the time.Harsh.
Do you seriously believe that he'd want to play in the French league? I don't.
I don't think he wanna play for Euorpa league as well.
In life, there are some types of people that won't take the easy route and can handle having to earn the right to do certain things. It certainly helps to get paid well also, but if that's his attitude - come help United get back into the CL - that's the kind of character I want at the club
By present you mean the season gone by only because that is cherry picking to suit your narrative. Real won three CLs on the bounce, while Barca have won La Liga for 2 seasons in a row. So yeah, they are still better than Pool by a mile.
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