Oh is his contract up this summer? I hadn't read that anywhere.
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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It’s funny because Chelsea fans have been just as panicky and annoyed at how slowly our window is going. I’ve seen those exact posts from Chelsea fans but about other clubs like Spurs and City.
United have signed more players than us so far. Not that I think any of this matters or a big deal but it’s funny to see someone use Chelsea’s window so far as a stick to beat United with
How convenient that this link has magically appeared out of nowhere! It’s almost like it was pulled out of a Catalan ass or something!
We only tried to hijack the Raphinha deal and that hasn’t worked. Don’t think we’ve tried to gazump any other deals.
Some of you are taking all this waaaay too seriuously.
They were linked about a week ago with a single line in a report. Nothing more and it was watching in case our negotiations break down.
Now it's full blown interest, miraculously as Barca want a little more fixed fee.
Come to think of it, who are the sources that broke it? I've never heard of them... Romano just did his usual copy and paste though
I think though the guarantee of Champions League football is sadly higher for Chelsea than us based on consistency over the last 5 seasons. Plus they also won it in 2020/21. I hope it is not a contributing factor when he makes a decision on who he joins. Hopefully, this is all part of a negotiation tactic by Barcelona and Chelsea's interest is just media bluster.
relax people he's not going to Chelsea.
he's not going to Chelsea.Could actually be an interesting point that Chelsea won't do this as there is no way on earth they get Ronaldo if they do
Cheers, appreciate it. Maybe you’ll be some day.
We’re not going to keep an unhappy Cristiano at the club. If Chelsea are the only club in for him(which it seems) he going to them. Regardless of what happens with FDJ. Chelsea certainly aren’t messing around. They’re clearly going all in for the league this season.
This whole saga has been a waste of everybody’s time except the media who again are spinning tales to sell papers and get viewers. The lad doesn’t want to come to United. He has made that clear several times. He chose Barca over us when he left Ajax knowing what the financial situation was at Barca. The Chelsea story is just more crap to add to the pot of bollocks. Forget about him and move on.
He's relentless.
It's actually not a laughable opinion. Juve are long term admirers of Jorginho but they won't pay up. The only possibility is some kind of swap deal like for players like De ligt. Luckily, he wants Bayern.
Yup that's true...Could actually be an interesting point that Chelsea won't do this as there is no way on earth they get Ronaldo if they do
I wouldn't be surprised to see United agree a fee publicly soon and raise their fixed as Barca demanded
I like it
I thought this myth about Champions League football being the one true draw any club can have was debunked.
By us no less, with Pogba and Ibra.
By us no less, with Pogba and Ibra.
Compare this to how the news that we were 'trying' to hijack the Nunez deal was received on here
The though of Juventus buying players with money is absolutely laughable mate
Must be trolling so my bad for giving him attention
Of course I will but we have to sign him first. Feck me is it whinging when what I exactly feared would happen is actually happening? Fans can hide their heads in the sand and meme the Di Maria comparison or tell us to relax every time a source dares admit Barca don’t actually need to sell him to us since everybody is a Barca finance expert these days. Never mind hand waving every single report saying De Jong doesn’t want to come.
Here we are, 2 days from going to Thailand with a reserve left back and a player on a free on the plane and only being able to sell one player.
I’m seeing the same with Martinez. Oh he’ll come to United because of Ten Hag but if it doesn’t end up applying to De Jong then would it to Martinez? Why would Arsenal negotiate with Ajax without being told Martinez would want to come? Isn’t that the logic applied to us and Barca?
I'm fairly sure that will happen. I'll actually be shocked if we actually do pay €65+20
Your club is Woodward on steroids. It semes like smart decisions are out the Chelsea window
Oh I’m sure they’ll just be so devastated when they’re able to plug in de Jong and Sterling into their starting 11. If Chelsea do indeed hijack the move and sign a CB then they’ve had a much better window than us.
As I said, I'm sure we did the same with Bruno I think it was... Reports came out that Barca I think it was had bid, and within 24 hours we'd signed him.
It's a popular and very effective tactic used in transfers. Clubs used to use United all the time to force buying clubs to pay up
This 100%. What is th backup plan here if the FDJ transfer doesn't work out for whatever reason?
Yeah, I agree with all that. I wouldn’t blame United for not being able to get this deal over the line. But I would blame the club if we aren’t ready to immediately sign alternative midfielders if/when we pull the plug on De Jong.
you're bringing way too much logic into a room that was ready to panic.
I'm sorry but are you actually a United fan? It's hard to tell from the drivel your posting in here, and your Ronaldo fanboying (sorry for using that word mods, I hate it, but it's necessary here) in that thread too. Give it a rest mate.
I am ok with this. Tired of these confusing Dutch names.
Yea right. So are they going to pay FDJ's deferred salary of €18M too on top of whatever stupid amount Barca are demanding? At the same time when they have a bigger need for a defender and a striker? Good luck to them. It'll show the world that they are now even bigger mugs than we are.
This Romero guy is starting to look like Barca's mouthpiece, pushing all kinds of stupid narratives.
Haha here we go, nothing new from us.
Romero is literally a clickbait jounalist and part time twitch streamer. He is there to make money. Look at all his sensationalist tweets
I'm pretty sure on this one he's just got his info from another source... revivo or something like that. Some Spanish source I've never heard of
Although I think the Chelsea links are little more than planted rumours, but I don’t agree that we have zero room for player like De Jong. Both Jorginho and Kante are entering their final year of the contracts and both have shown signs of decline. Waiting until next summer to replace at least one of them would be really stupid.
I think we will sign a midfielder this summer and one of them will sign an extension, probably Kante. Jorginho to either be sold this summer or leave for free next summer.
He is 100% not going to Chelsea. Relax.
Expected this at some point tbh. I'm amazed we've seemingly had a free run at him up until this point.
But what I'm choosing to believe is that FDJ and his agent have cooked up this story so that when he signs for United, it'll put to bed all the rumours about not wanting us. That's what I'm choosing to believe
But what I'm choosing to believe is that FDJ and his agent have cooked up this story so that when he signs for United, it'll put to bed all the rumours about not wanting us. That's what I'm choosing to believe
Relax man, we might not end up getting him but this is unnecessary panic. Just make informed judgements and accept that even good decision making can lead to bad outcomes.
FdJ: We know Barca have financial issues and cannot keep his wages on the book. We know they have positions of higher priority where they need to make signings (CB, RW, CF etc.) and FdJ isn't strictly necessary for them. We also know that basically every single club (including Chelsea) that can afford him have no interest in him. We know how Barca leaks to journos work, we do that all the time.
Martinez: The only contest is between us / Arsenal. We pay better than them, neither has CL football and we have Ten Hag. This one should basically be in the bag. Again yeah it might not happen and Arsenal might decide to give him a feckton of money and he might chose them but the most likely scenario is that he'll sign for us.
Everyone whined that Eriksen won't come until FdJ signs. What happened there? It was clearly BS.
Chill and enjoy the ride.
The people that think it's all bogus are starting to sound more delusional than the folk that think it's dead in the water. In any case we'll know soon, Chelsea are actually competent and will complete this transfer this week if they're serious.
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