Eventually a champions league team will come in and he’ll be happy to move which in my opinion is a silly attitude to take considering he played his best under ETH and we should be out of CL for one season.
If reports are true and he really doesn’t like or want to come to United it leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I don’t like the idea of forcing a player who will be unhappy to join.
In all seriousness I think he does leave Barca but I think he ends up at either PSG or Chelsea and most likely just becomes another name in their squads like he is at Barca. At United we’d build around him.
I think he’s being poorly advised and he is a little bit blinded by Barca and his love for them and doesn’t really consider any other clubs beyond their “on the face of it” opportunities.
He’s coming across a little silly.
Why does everyone think he'll end up at Chelsea when they're already stacked in his position and he'll struggle to get playing time i'd say!
The reports were all over the place when they came out weeks ago... lets see how they went (to the best of my recollection)
Sport were saying:
"Meeting between Chelsea and Barca, de Jong discussed, Chelsea very interested and will bid soon"
"de Jong wasn't mentioned in the meeting, but they are very interested and bid will go in soon"
"de Jong prefers Chelsea and will do everything to make sure the move to Chelsea happens"
"de Jong does NOT want to go to Chelsea and if he does move, United are his priority"
"de Jong does NOT want to go to United under any circumstances, and he wants to stay at Barca"
All this was said in about 24/48 hours. Flip flopping much? Then you have Relevo who are apparently super reliable (well some journos) and they said Chelsea are interested and bid will be made soon. Fast forward a week or two and they reported again last week that "Chelsea are super interested and a bid will be made in the coming hours". Guess what... a week or so later nothing at all. No Chelsea journos have mentioned any kind of bid. The only English journos who have mentioned it have quoted Sport and added their own guff into the mix. It's a joke. You'd think if Chelsea were interested, their close journos would know and report on it, but no, they've got bigger fish to fry and are trying to concentrate on them (even if Barca keep stealing their players that they want)
Not sure PSG have been mentioned. Ten Hag will have had assurances from de Jong and he'd have even spoken to him about the Chelsea links, and if he told him that he's prefer to go to Chelsea or anywhere else for that matter, then i'm sure United would have walked away by now as it's pointless if his mind has already been made.