People are ready but not sure you are to be fair
People in the "it's in the bag" camp are as silly as the "walk away" one. Him coming to the tour is expected because the transfer is not as close as some here make it out to be. His priority is quite clearly to stay at Barca and we are his fallback option in case he is forced to leave pretty much. Whether we should be going for players like him I am not sure but it's entirely different discussion.Tweet
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Hardball with who? We've agreed a fee.
From what i've read, we're playing the long waiting game on this one, and if he's not here before the start of the PL, so be it, we'll see it out.
So yeah... it's going to be a long summer and i think any other target will be when the de Jong deal is totally dead in the water and no chance of it happening. We might be prepared to go until the final week of the window to be fair
Whatever about Eriksen and De Jong, I could easily see us not signing another mid, with De Jong being partnered by Fred/McTominay/VDB rotating.
Good you mentioned it. Needs reminding.
This is surely a joke.
Thanks Romano for that brand new bit of info. If my employer owed me €17m for servces rendered and refused to pay me whilst wanting me out, i'd hold firm too and have no intention to leave. Why would i give them the satisfaction of being let off with so much money?
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You’ve been presented with so much evidence that the player literally has to leave. Try and take it in.
Of course it will. We aren't signing another midfielder on top of Eriksen and De Jong.
Might have thought you'd be right at the top of the meltdown list to be fair.
That's the thing...no he doesn't.
Thanks for the info. One of the research journos for VI mentioned 400 million as the minimum of what the firm is expected to earn.
His spot in the World cup is untouchable.
Yep, that's the way I see it as well. But De Jong/Eriksen will not play in a midfield two
I'm done on here for a while.
And yet Barcelona are not acting as if the player has to leave.
I didn’t realise summer ended in mid July.
Maybe with him? Maybe they're taking him on the tour but not intending to play him much/at all, such to show him he's not in their plans and he could stay for the money but would warm the bench. I think leaving him off the tour would communicate that more strongly mind.
They'd be the ones in breach of contract then, which is not what they want.
Which won’t be the first time anyway. At least I’m glad we were able to secure other targets and slightly improve the team but our midfield will still unfortunately be in shambles.
Not really when they'd end up with big money for a player they don't need amidst a summer of sexy splash signings. They'll look even less silly if the Bernardo Silva reports are true.
They want the de Jong money to put into transfers. They probably can't afford the 17m straight up hence the problems. Or alternatively they don't want to pay it straight up! They're probably looking for anything in the contract that might get them out of this without paying a penny is back wages or loyalty bonuses, which is why he's saying he wants to stay, that's probably their big get out of it all card.
Yeah was just thinking that, may as well put this thread on ignore until they return because no chance he leaves their tour
This makes sense however I would suggest it won’t be sorted out between player and Barca for a very long time.
Watch the above and you’ll understand the situation more accurately.
Ye its strange, have seen plenty of deals where fee was agreed while they were on tour and then left to complete transfer, but this is weird.
We should impose transfer deadline day on ourselves rather than waiting until the end of the window. It’s all over.
