This is worse than Vidal at least with Vidal we knew he didn't want to join. With Frenkie there's always this feeling of "maybe he just wants the 17m" and "we have Ten Hag".
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Because even if FDJ does end up taking a pay cut, he wont be wrong, because he said at the moment.... so maybe he changed his mind. Its not that i dont believe him, I still post his tweets because he's a big name, but I dont think he has close connections to this deal. Very very few people do, if at all.Based on what?
Season starts next week. This this cnut and his not so c-lever club to feck right off already.
And of course, as soon as Romano gives an update that doesn't fit the doomer narrative, he's an unreliable fraud.
This gonna be a January signing.
He’s maintained that line for a long time
why does he get in ahead of pique or Kounde, or Biscuits, kessie, Gavi or Pedri?
That’s still a lot sooner than it would have been if Woodward were still around.
The “proper DOF” stuff is fair enough up to a point. What annoys me is that Woodward’s departure date was known months in advance. Surely Arnold and Murtough could have got their heads together off-grid somewhere (obviously not a pub garden in Wilmslow
) and put a secret plan in place so they could hit the ground running as soon as he’d gone. Surely they would have been aware that the likes of Judge and the scouts needed replacement; they should have got a list of names they could start to approach the moment he was out of the way.After having an offer from another company for more money.
Realistically what are the chances that Barca just say "screw it" and let him stay on his current terms? I'd say slim to none personally.
I think it's clear he doesn't want to take a pay cut, his preference is obviously to stay, but thats looking unlikely too as it seems Barca are planning to move on without him
I think it's clear he doesn't want to take a pay cut, his preference is obviously to stay, but thats looking unlikely too as it seems Barca are planning to move on without him
If you watched the whole interview, his sentiments was pretty in-fitting with the doom narrative: Frenkie not interested in leaving Barca, Ronaldo desperately wanting out, all striker options rejected us, Antony close to impossible, other positions only viable upon selling players (no sign of any further outgoings being close).
He can't stay on current wages. It breaks Barca's wage structure. They will not allow it.
These tweets are brilliant. There’s also the possibility that I could play for Utd one day and form a partnership with Eric Cantona but it’s very unlikely. Thanks for reading.
I do think he'd still get more minutes than Kessie but not the others. Maybe he's playing the long term and waiting for Busquets to leave for America
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I really hope these loathsome feckers go out of business.
He can. He has a contract. All they can do is bench him
Yep.
Fine Young cannibals is a band, not a song.While what you're saying is of course right, I think we'd see Barca get quite nasty if he refused to leave and refused the wage reduction
Would be nice but it's very unlikely to happen anytime in the foreseeable future
I hope they get knocked out into the Europa, we draw them, smash them 8-0 and cause the beginning of bankruptcy
Whats the worst they could do?
Or they pull another lever and give him his 17m euros to leave.
Did Romano shag one of your relatives or something?
You just go around saying he doesn’t know anything about xyz. Despite the most reputable journos crediting him. Bizarre
Maybe that would be an insane risk though, especially in a WC year. People saying he was chosen last year ahead of others are missing the fact that Barca had v few other options. They have Kessie, and Gavi is a year older, de Jong has shown no capability to play in CM where Xavi would want him, and publically they are clearly either telling him to go by saying you will be a Cb 3rd choice, or they believe he actually is a CB third choice...
Stick him in the reserves. Isolate him completely.. In a world cup year too.
There's no way that'll happen. He's too good and on too much money. More than likely he'd still play for the year and they'd try sell him again in Jan/next summer.
None of them know. Fab and the other media people only get information via the agents or someone who is tracking the agents or club's transfer team's movements. They use this info to build the articles but the info is normally very generic and reveals only legally admissible details.
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Wow that's a blast from the past. Now I've got that image of her going under those bunch of lasers in my head.
I don't think it will too. But only because I don't think it'll come to that. I think he either takes a cut or leaves.
Rom's completely out of the loop with this transfer, you can tell he doesn't have a clue
I think a lot of the guys now are just repeating everything over and over because there's so little coming out regarding what's actually going on
He'll fit in here then
Yawn, no further down the line then
Exactly, I mean Murtough has been at the club a decade and DOF over a year, if the scouts were that Inept he would have known that and should off had plans in place.That’s still a lot sooner than it would have been if Woodward were still around.
The “proper DOF” stuff is fair enough up to a point. What annoys me is that Woodward’s departure date was known months in advance. Surely Arnold and Murtough could have got their heads together off-grid somewhere (obviously not a pub garden in Wilmslow
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