I have no idea but I thought the muppets would know. It’s the same aggregate page that’s keeps getting quoted on here so thought it was a safe bet
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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We’ll be there until Barça have solved his wage problem.
I dunno. Maybe as often as a club telling a player of his prime with no injury to feck off?
Again, the main point is, if player doesn't want to leave, no one can make him leave. I don't think it's that hard to grasp?
It’s not even news though is it? It’s something we knew 2 months ago rehashed daily as though it’s new info.
He wants to stay on his current deal, Barça says that’s impossible. Rinse and repeat.
Oh noes!
He wants to stay?!?!!
He wants to stay?!?!!
So "Barca" are dragging this out by not giving him his wages in the hopes he agrees to leave without his owed wages? absolute cnuts and really fecking pathetic "more than a club" my black arse.
They should negotiate a payment plan like the poor bastards they are.
They should negotiate a payment plan like the poor bastards they are.
Today is going to be HOT
No, we all know he can say feck off to Barca, that’s why we know he holds all the cards in this stand-off.
But him actually staying on his current deal is so incredibly unlikely, when Barça eventually accept he absolutely isn’t willing to take a pay cut, we’ll see what happens.
I highly doubt that we would be chasing him if he didn’t want to move.
My feeling is that the negotiation is between him and barca for that 17m deferred wages. Barca probably want him to forego and suspect his side is saying that he will stay unless those wages are paid.
My feeling is that the negotiation is between him and barca for that 17m deferred wages. Barca probably want him to forego and suspect his side is saying that he will stay unless those wages are paid.
Why are we not pursuing alternative targets? I don’t think we have a plan B to be honest.
Because plan B’s tend to be shite.
I’m glad we never had a Sancho plan B two Summers ago for example.
Starting to be whispers from both sides this weekend and this morning that a deal can't be done.
If it falls apart this week, at least we have time to sniff out a decent alternative and not panic buy Fellaini
If it falls apart this week, at least we have time to sniff out a decent alternative and not panic buy Fellaini
Thought I was in the christ its hot thread
not in this one. he gets super wasted on piss water american beer and passes out. he then has a dream that the hot blonde cheerleader that everyone fancies comes on to him, pushes him onto couch and starts making out with him. he then slowly comes round to find the families golden retriever licking his face and everyone laughs at him.
And yet his club are still maintaining (and not whispering) that it’s impossible for him to stay unless he drastically reduces his wage.
We're gonna end up with Neves for the same price aren't we 
This will drag on for a few more weeks yet. The daily updates are pointless.
agreed but our midfield is in a dire state.
We might have to give Scholesy another ring at this rate.
Let's play a game everyone.
Player X, plays for Club B, Club B wants to sell Player X to Club G, but Player X does not want to leave Club B, below is the comments from Player X, who at the end left Club B and joined Club G.
"We were told that the Club B would be able to make some money on me if they sold me, but I initially didn't want to leave,"
“it was especially difficult to move to Club G given that Club G were not a top club at the time, having not made a Champions League semi-final appearance in eight years”
"It was a difficult decision, the most difficult one of my career"
"Club G were not among the European elite at that moment and it was a step back for me."
Can you guess who is Player X?
Which Club is Club B, and which is Club G?
Player X, plays for Club B, Club B wants to sell Player X to Club G, but Player X does not want to leave Club B, below is the comments from Player X, who at the end left Club B and joined Club G.
"We were told that the Club B would be able to make some money on me if they sold me, but I initially didn't want to leave,"
“it was especially difficult to move to Club G given that Club G were not a top club at the time, having not made a Champions League semi-final appearance in eight years”
"It was a difficult decision, the most difficult one of my career"
"Club G were not among the European elite at that moment and it was a step back for me."
Can you guess who is Player X?
Which Club is Club B, and which is Club G?
Fellow muppets.
Rest easy for we are now in a win win position.
The club have gotten on with their business while this saga unfolds so it isn’t another Moyes/fellaini window.
As for FDJ, this either comes off and we get a top talent with a point to prove or Barca accelerate their financial ruin.
I will be pretty pleased either way!
Rest easy for we are now in a win win position.
The club have gotten on with their business while this saga unfolds so it isn’t another Moyes/fellaini window.
As for FDJ, this either comes off and we get a top talent with a point to prove or Barca accelerate their financial ruin.
I will be pretty pleased either way!
I wouldn’t be surprised if one of our young lads ends up a better plan B in ETH’s system, than one of the plan b’s available for purchase.
Back then we had Greenwood who was more than good enough on the right though
McFred aren't good enough and they're literally our own senior central midfielders
Tell Barca the deal is off and put the pressure on them to force him out. Either it gets ugly between the player and the club or they somehow pay up/convince him to forfeit his money.
But it's not impossible at all. He could just stay and demand Barca to fulfill his contract. It's not his problem they (probably-who knows really) can't register all their shiny new tows. And who knows maybe he even pulls a Bale and doesn't give two shits whether he plays or not.
Poster X thinks about making a new funny post, the rest of the forum thinks the post was unfunny, showed a horrendous lack of humour and quite frankly a piece of turd.
Can you guess who poster X is?
Tielemans and Neves £75 million combined is not bad business. Those who assume that these two players are not a level above Fred / Mctomminay are clearly mistaken.
That's the issue. People saying we shouldn't look for alternatives forget that our midfield is absolute crap.
If only we had a couple of promising central midfielder prospects like we had with Greenwood.
I'm sure the board has open lines to alternatives cause this deal looks really risky to be left to the last day of transfer window.
We don't. He was a once in a decade talent. Those young boys look promising but aren't close to his level of talent.
Yup was resigned myself to this a week ago.
The current circumstances can only be explained by none other than him not wanting to leave, it was never about those deferred wages Barca are spending a lot of money on players and United had increased the upfront fee it would have been sorted by now.
Also explains why they didn't leave him off the tour like some of the other players they were forcing out, resigned to him staying and the carrot not the stick means he will more likely accept a lower short term wage.
Bale was in his 30’s and had won everything, cared more about golf than footy & was a guaranteed starter for his national side regardless.
I agree although I doubt he will agree to yet another lower wage. Nor does he need to.
I am not trying to be funny, I am sharing an example of what one player thought of the club he moved to when he made the move that he didn't initially want to make, and I will give you a hint, Player X & Club G were very successful together
Just can’t see this one happening. Hope I’m wrong, would love him here.
They don’t need to be close to Greenwood, they need to be close to a “plan B”.
Bolded bit - I take your point
But has the business done so far lead you to believe United are building a team that will be title challenging any time soon?
For me, no. I'd say the window has been about par. I think they need a top class forward and top class CM otherwise the window will look like a failure. So I don't see this win/win situation
Yeah well. Maybe he cares more about staying in sunny Spain than playing regular football. Or maybe he'll play anyway if he decides to stay. Who knows. The only thing that's sure is that he doesn't have to accept anything Barca try to force him into
Not if we want to win things again.
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