You've not been following the news then because we've not only agreed a fee fully with Barcelona but we're paying an extra €10m guaranteed than what was initially agreed presumably to help cover the deferred wages. Utd have done their part it's now on Barcelona to do the rest and they have the money from the fee we're paying and the Second Economic Lever which is about to kick in. We have no choice but to keep riding it out
I have been following it and I understand that the "up front" amount has increased, presumably to give Barca the money to pay off Frenkie. If thats the case then the blockage in this deal should have been removed with that agreement and it should all happen quite quickly now. That doesn't seem to be happening.
Thats kind of my point. Barca are still mucking about trying to pay Frenkie as little as possible and holding up the deal. The longer this goes on, the more likely it is that Barca will feel that United, when pushed will up their offer a bit more and a bit more to make the deal happen.
Barca are in an awful position right now and are still managing to take us for a ride. Frenkie and United hold the power here and yet the only ones who seem to be dictating things at all are Barca and Frenkie.
United will have talked to Frenkie to make sure he is willing to come. The hold up is entirely Barca trying to worm their way out of as much of the deferred wages as possible. The fact that United and Barca have apparently agreed a fee seems not to have made that much difference.