Tom Collomosse of Mail Sport asked De Jong about his future and the links to United after the game, the Dutchman replied with;
The problem with Di Maria is that he had faced personal issues in terms of the house burglary as well as LVG losing his patience with him. FDJ will have a more positive situation with ETH and I hope he finds a better home than Di Maria.
It is the correct statement to make. He can't publicly write off Barcelona until he gets clarity in his situation and Barcelona is his dream club.
Yeah the club wouldn't agree to a fee if they didn't have assurances from his side.
yes, but they owe him in the future, not in the present. Every player gets payed on what was agreed on so far.
Technically they don't unless there's some kind of clause in the contract but we don't know that do we? It will feel that way for him that's for sure.
Of course they wouldn't. We look amateurish quite a lot, but if we'd agreed a fee for a player who had absolutely no intention of joining, at any point, we'd look beyond incompetent no matter how we spin it
Why do people like you keep peddling this bollocks? Him wanting to stay at Barca has nothing to do with him wanting or not wanting to come here. It's quite simple
I'm sure we were also given assurances from Ramos, Fabregas and plenty of other players that took us along for a ride as well.
No they owe him wages that were deferred. Basically there are a few ways to resolve this.
He clearly wants to stay. Also, people saying Barca need him gone, look at the players Barca want to get rid of, they are not on their pre season party to US.
To be frank, there were never any assurances from those players except the media. The media always links us to players who are possibly available, have star value and are playing in positions that we need.
bartha is the biggest indebted club in the world.
Correct me if wrong pal but he has come and said that he's staying at barca, doesn't want to move so it's a nothing story
No he hasn’t. Please show me the evidence of this.
You think ETH would accept that?
Ramos certainly took the piss, but thats the kind of guy that he is.
Do you really believe that he wouldn't have spoken to EtH saying he wants to come?
Apparently people believe were chasing him blindly
Both of them have no where near the same quality that de Jong does. Struggling to find a midfielder that can do what de Jong does and play his role perfectly.
His form really fell off a cliff after the home burglarly. His wife was already not keen on Manchester, we all know how much stress can be brought on by the other half even when you're at work!
Calm down chaps...I'm in the camp of wanting him to come. I said correct me if I'm wrong cause I wasn't exactly sure. I seen to remember something early in this thread where he said he's happy at barca and it was a nothing story
Absolutely agree. Not the same quality. But they are better upgrades on McFred so I can see Utd falling back on them as backup transfer options.
We also have to realise this is Manchester United. We have a history of doing this, chasing players and not getting them.
It sounds like a pretty convoluted situation. There were some stories doing the rounds saying de Jong and his agent don't want to express any desire to move if it jeopardises him getting the money he's owed.
I agree that in the past we have done exactly that, but we wouldn't go as far as agreeing a fee for a player for us to have no idea if he actually wants to join. That's just stupidity of the highest level possible. It just wouldn't happen.
I wanna believe they won’t be stupid enough to do that. But at this point that’s just wishful thinking.
my advice, check /r/reddevils for the tweets to be posted and then come back to the latest thread page on that day. Or potentially, scrolls through each thread page and only stop when there are new tweets.
