Probably because no one knows anything and one or two like Romero are making educated guesses. If there was something substantial you can bet all the big guns like Di Marzio would be all over this.
Matthijs de Ligt / signs for Juventus, lowering their average age to 56
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Lets put the positives of each team and weight it ourselves :
Barcelona :
-Compete for Prizes straight away
-Have competition so not first team straight away but will challenge and grow better
-Same school of football as Ajax
-Messi
-A team mate, Frenkie De Jong just signed
-Lots of Dutch legends from Barcelona
-Better Football
-Has mentioned interest in Barcelona
United :
-Better Salary
-Will be first team straight away
-Can be part of a new building project
-Team CEO Van Der Sar and Blind from United
-Riola prefers money and in good terms with United
-Language
-Might be captain soon as United missing a leader
Thats all I can think of at the moment feel free to add anything more.
Barcelona :
-Compete for Prizes straight away
-Have competition so not first team straight away but will challenge and grow better
-Same school of football as Ajax
-Messi
-A team mate, Frenkie De Jong just signed
-Lots of Dutch legends from Barcelona
-Better Football
-Has mentioned interest in Barcelona
United :
-Better Salary
-Will be first team straight away
-Can be part of a new building project
-Team CEO Van Der Sar and Blind from United
-Riola prefers money and in good terms with United
-Language
-Might be captain soon as United missing a leader
Thats all I can think of at the moment feel free to add anything more.
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Under Valverde that is not really true. Any positional play Barcelona do is just muscle memory. And it is Frenkie De Jong.
25 pages since I last checked the thread. Can only mean one thing. 
I remember the English media didn’t have a clue about the Pogba transfer back in 2016 until United briefed them when the deal was all but done
It’s early days and I can only see United briefing the likes of Stone etc once we/if are close to signing him.
I can assume that all sources until now are coming from Barca perspective. What Catalonia medias reporting are all from what Riaola told Barca board.
How about United perspective? I can imagine all journalists are trying to gather information from United recently. But it's gone so quiet.
Make me wonder United used by Riaola and United have no clue what's going on atm.
Means someone's thrown some bait and most took it25 pages since I last checked the thread. Can only mean one thing.
The way i see it is:
Raiola is pushing towards United because we will pay the demands and if De Ligt goes to Barcelona now he will be there a long time or his whole career. Why have a client make one move when you can have him possibly make two or three moves? Each of them with a payout for Raiola. He will sell it to De Ligt as United is a step up from Ajax (You may argue this due to champions league but the EPL and United are both alot bigger in stature than dutch football especially when Ajax will lose players this transfer window). He will tell De Ligt that if things aren't going well within 2-3 years, we can make some fuss and get a move to Spain or Italy. Meanwhile, United will be using 'the project', No 5, Captaincy, Money, ex-players..everything in their power to try and sell it to De Ligt. On top of this, Im sure i read a while ago that De Ligt is a massive fan of the EPL and had been told by many Dutch legends that a move there would serve him better right now, learning in a competitive and physical league at a young age, l don't know if i am imagining that or not but either way, the EPL is proberly serving is a draw aswell. All in all, i believe that a move to United is just as likely as a move to Barcelona. Especially, when Barcelona seem to have a lack of funds to do everything they want to do in the market in this window.
Anyone thinking the Copa Del Rey will have any effect are being stupid. IF Barcelona couldn't match the demands before that game, Do you believe they will break their wage structure and give De Ligt what he wants because of one domestic cup final when they are league champions?. If anything, they will tie up the Griezeman deal or a similar attacking transfer. Barcelona will answer losses with attackers, not defenders. If they have the financial ability to meet the demands.
Could go either way but i think its 50-50 and people thinking he wouldn't pick United vould be suprised.
I'd take a league two CB. Providing he's not made out of digestive biscuits like the rest of our dross he'd be an upgrade on anyone but Lindelof.
Gerard Romero is the Di Marzio equivalent for Barcelona. On this potential transfer I trust Romero over Di Marzio.
If he's saying we're close, then it's likely the case.
If he's saying we're close, then it's likely the case.
AWB preferably.
Pogba was first reported from Di Marzio then followed by English media very quickly. I expect more media cover on English media today.
He's never said much about an interest for Barca, in fact the only preference hes ever said was for the premier league. Also hes 19 so he can still go to both clubs in his career and be a legend at both (like Ronaldo with United and Madrid)
If I recall correctly, Pogba was first mentioned by Duncan slap head Castles who was basically a Jose mouth peice
Something still smells very off about this, need a few journos with a shred of credibility to start getting in on the action.
Dutch legends for United too over the years.
Not as big a problem as you've made it seem imo. He'll be amongst the highest paid earners at the club because he's a potential superstar and the rest of the players will understand that. I think the wage structure gets in a mess when the likes of Alexis and Lukaku are our highest earners, not someone who has the pick of every club in Europe. Also, I can't see why Rashford would demand just as much? Would personally hesitate to give him half that amount with all due respect, and if he thinks he's earned a wage that large then he's got completely different things to worry about.
A 17 year old De Light absolutely bossing it in the Europa League final vs us.
Di Marzio is number one for Italian transfers which what it was back in 2016 when we got Pogba from an Italian club - Juventus.
The reliable English journos such as Stone etc didn’t mention Pogba coming until the deal was near completion.
Gerard Romero is one of the top sources for Barcelona (Barca’s version of Di Marzio) who’s commented on this
Pathetic how we didn’t sign him after that because of a dinosaur. Fergie would have snapped him up just like he did with Ronaldo at a young age.
The new sneijfer.?
Im keeping my cocks cold until its done
Im keeping my cocks cold until its done
Why would people say that? Because he’s extremely good at his job. If I was a player I’d want Riola representing me.
I’d know he’d be getting me a best possible deal. If you’re good at something never do it for free.
He probably was not ready to leave Ajax back then.
To be fair - it was Rio who urged to sign Ronaldo & maybe now it's looking like he may be important if we end up getting de ligt.
DOF
Ohh it's that time of the year again... those famous 48 hours...
He was already better than our defenders back then.
Di Marzio has a pretty good track record across all of Europe. All he would have to do here is get in touch with one of his sources to find out, or even talk to Raiola.
Still trying to remain calm, I know people have already said this but wouldn't mind betting Mino has told him go to Utd for 5 years then leave for Barca when you are 24
Barça has a pretty impressive history of Dutch players... Quite comfortably more than us; i.e. Koeman, Cruijf, de Boer, Van Bommel, Davids, Overmars, Kluivert, Cocu, etc. etc... seems we ve had some greats and quite a few duds as well.
Why would Blind be advocating for a move to us? It’s not like his experience with us went that great. Think he’d warn him about joining us, if anything.
Ducker and Ogden were saying Herrera wasn't a target anymore according to what they had been told. Herrera was having a medical at the precise moment.
I don’t know about Di Marzio. Wasn’t he close to Jose? Before that I don’t recall him leaking any major news for us.
He was insistent from December 2015 that Jose was joining us, so probably did have someone in Jose’s camp giving him news. He reported a few weeks ago that Celtic would like Jose.
Gerard Romero is reliable. No better source than him on this — except Instagram.
De Ligt
Lindelof
Tuanzebe
Smalling
That’s a pretty good choice of four to compete for our 2 CB options. I’d be tempted to add Alderweireld as well instead of Smalling.
Lindelof
Tuanzebe
Smalling
That’s a pretty good choice of four to compete for our 2 CB options. I’d be tempted to add Alderweireld as well instead of Smalling.
That’s a myth. Our players did say to Sir Alex to sign him but we were already well along the way to signing him as plenty of other clubs wanted him too.To be fair - it was Rio who urged to sign Ronaldo & maybe now it's looking like he may be important if we end up getting de ligt.
DOF
And I know many here have an inferiority complex about Barca and Real but, if you are a great CB you probably want to play in England. Virgil Van Dijk just won the Player of the Year award John Terry won it in the past. The likes of Adams, Stam, Campbell, Rio, Terry, Vidic , Kompany and now Van Dijk are some of the biggest icons of the PL era. England seems to be the country that respects the CB the most with Italy second.
Why not - he was part of every trophy we won't post SAF. Just because Jose sold him doesn't mean he is going to bad mouth the rest of the club. Guy was good for us and he looked happy whilst he was here.
That’s a good point. I’m sure that’s been taken into a consideration. I mean everyone has an ego and everyone wants to be remembered as one of the greats I’d imagine.
Oh okay I didn't know that
Still a good anecdote though.
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