Let me guess, we're going to chase him the whole summer, miss on pretty much all our other targets, then by Aug we'll pay close to 90m and sign him, then treat this window as a huge success because we signed him, right ?
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
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Like who? Nunez? We were never going to make him more priority than midfield first due to his transfer fees was too big.Because we've been turned down by everyone else we've been linked to
Who else is going to come? Genuine question. PSG signed Vitinha, Liverpool is pretty much done , Bayern signed Gravenberch and City is after Philips. The only possibility is a Silva - FDJ swap which is probably a very rare scenario. Chelsea could come but they already have Jorginho and has other problems to fix first.
Yeh but how does that affect his transfer price? Especially since he's reportedly agreed to come.
Timber, Vitinha, likely Eriksen.
He’s that value because he’s 22 as you said and on f all wages in terms of a big club.
So how does that transfer over to a 25 year old and ridiculous wages compared to what he’s achieved in the game.
Use that same analogy and argue why we shouldn’t be getting £60m for De Gea?
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The tap in merchant vs Shrager, the latter has been very reliable in the past for United.
Timber is not midfielder as the report says we are interested in signing midfielder first as priority, Fabrizio confirms we never interested in Vitinha, while Eriksen hasn't reject us.
Window wouldn't be a huge success unless we get RWB/RB, CM & DM. Haven't mentioned ST as think it's more likely we get a forward to play on the right instead. Think a CB is still on the cards IF we get rid of Bailly/Jones ideally both.
Timber isn't a midfielder, I never said he was? But these are targets outlined by our new manager and we're not delivering them, it's fast becoming a poor summer for us.
Shrager has a solid history in breaking news for United transfers etc, I tend to believe him over Romano.
Geez, don't believe everything you read on the web.....
Do you mind to post of the news that Timber rejects/rejected us to support your point that Romero is just lucky journalist for saying FDJ would be ten Hag's first signing?
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Why the feck were we even trying to sign a player we couldn’t guarantee first team football to? We’re not at the stage where we can afford to use our budget on squad players.
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Let me know if you want more, the news has been coming out since Wednesday, yet you didn't know. But youre quick enough to tell me Timber isn't a midfielder, as a way to back up your point that we're not delivering targets the manager wants.
Replaces Bailly and his age profile would have surely suggested he wouldn’t be first team. However clearly a ETH choice. We can get him next year after Maguire falls on his face.
So how any of those tweets counter my point that we are prioritising in signing midfielder first before other positions? what makes you think we will proceed to talk and negotiate to Ajax before proceed to talk and negotiate to Barcelona for FDJ then?
It seems you are moving the goalpost or forgetting why I posted Romero tweet about FDJ being ten Hag's first signing and why I mentioned Timber isn't a midfielder
We've only just said this past week we're prioritising midfield, whilst we were talking with Timber weeks/a month ago. It's easy to say we're prioritising midfield when players are rejecting us.
Well we're obviously not going to proceed in talks with Ajax, the player has rejected us. But the links to Timber started a matter of days after ten Hag was announced, even possibly the same day, de Jong has been spoken about the past few weeks.
So what you are saying is that if Timber doesn't reject us, we will right away proceed in talks with Ajax to sign Timber first before we proceed in talks with Barcelona to sign FDJ?? What makes you think that?
You might not realise this but discussing personal term doesn't mean the club will proceed it right away to buy/sign the player, they could put it on stand-by after securing the more priority ones to suit the budget.
And then maybe “A close friend has told us....”
This is complete spin.
If you want to sign Lewandowski, Raphina, Alonso, Kounde - you need to sell someone.
Your economic agreements just stopped you from financial turmoil, you've not earned any more money, you've just brought forward the cash and ceded future payments.
I'm sure Xavi wants to keep him, he's a good player, but if he actually wants to sign players, Barcelona have to sell.
Big shame imo. Timber is a massive talent, plays like a midfielder at the back. Him and De Jong instantly improve our ability to play out the back, something we've been crap at for ages.
By all accounts he would’ve cost around 35 million. Allocating over a quarter of our budget to replace our fourth choice centre back would’ve been the height of incompetence.
On the last part yes but Liverpool were not linked by any UK sources
Why being the UK sources is matter for this discussion?
I fail to see how it would be incompetence. £35m is not a huge amount and he can also play RB. Given we only have three serviceable CBs who have all had injury problems last year we will definitely need a CB this Summer.
Maybe because sources out of Portugal are known bullshiters?
Brexit means brexit
Ok so it has no matter/relevance to the fact the player was linked publicly.
of course we can afford the fee but we’ve seen this movie before: United tries to be too clever with negotiations and then acts surprised when the selling club doesn’t lower the fee (see Sancho).
35m is a decent chunk and it’s not the sort of money you spend on squad players when you need another keeper, right back, two starting midfielders and at least another forward. The first XI should be the priority.
That's why I said he also plays RB. We will definitely be getting a CB this Summer so it would make sense.
But he wouldn’t be our starting full back as the reports say he turned us down over a lack of first team football. So he’d be a squad player.
Nobody can really be guaranteed first team football moving to a new club so it could just be he doesn't want the uncertainty of trying to nail down a place in a new team in a new league, which is a step-up, so close to the World Cup.
Guaranteed first team football isn't the same as first team football. Getting a cb thats guaranteed to start over Varane and Lindelof for instance isn't that likely. They'll compete with them and might get pushed out to full back, or just get dropped for a while if they dont instantly take to the league.
He kind of seemed a player that would probably better served by another year at ajax for his own development.
Timber feels he has more guarantee to get more minutes at Ajax (assume if he plays poor or get injured will need to wait for his chance) than at United (likely to be dropped if he plays poor or won't get straight to the first XI after recovers from injuries) before the World Cup. Doesn't mean he would be squad player.
End of the day, I don't think we will prioritise to sign a CB before de Jong or midfield after losing Matic and Pogba, while we haven't get rid Bailly, Tuanzebe and etc.
Yeah the first XI definitely needs at least 5 players for it, however if you are looking at squad depth it probably requires 7.
Yeah rebuilding that midfield is without doubt top priority, this will help our CB's not get so exposed. Then we need to focus on improving our RB situation and either a RW or number 9.
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