ffs....this jump 19 pages over night just celebrating hitting 1000 pages
doing my head in
doing my head in
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Sky Sports top transfer reporter calling him Frankie over and over again is just cringe worthy. It's your job to know more than the average fan about footballers ffs!!
At least he's saying what we all know: Barca want him out but don't want to pay him.
At least he's saying what we all know: Barca want him out but don't want to pay him.
Yeah I know, but I liked it.Fine Young cannibals is a band, not a song.
Frenkie "I'm playing for the biggest club side u21's in the world, why should I leave ?"
Who is buying these levers? I bet it's the Spanish government or something
Right. Come on. Own up. Who keeps forcing @bosskeano to come into this thread? It's getting out of hand now. It's doing his head in.
This reads like you think he's got a secret name that the reporter should know and use
I think Romano gets his info from the agent personally.
Sounds like a bit of personal projection here. You alright there buddy?
Wow calm down
I hacked his "ignore thread" button so instead of ignoring the thread, he gets a notification of every new post, sorry!
BUMP for 2k!
Nice that the muppets have a short-term deadline for a resolution. Barca's propaganda mouthpiece says Barca wants an end to the soap opera. I agree with the point that Xavi's comments were overblown and taken out of context.
Fair enough. Just being pedantic really.Yeah I know, but I liked it.
You sneaky little muppet
Xavi now sees FDJ as a CB.. and at the same time they are signing Kounde. So FDJ will play second fiddle both as CB and as cm.
When they say "next few hours" do they mean 24+ because this was the news this morning FFS.
Stop treating Frenkie like a slave, Barca. #savefrenkie #barceholes
What a stupid post
I hate this post and every other tiresome variant of it.
They can damage him as a footballer of course but that just reduces the sale value of the asset. Presumably there is an accountant somewhere who gives no feks about the muppetry, who is just saying path x is cheaper than path y and once the facing off and being nasty has been done we, Barca, still have to take path x. Path x is most likely paying FdJ amount z, which is the smallest amount he is owed that he is willing to accept, in order to leave.
The only real question is getting agreement on amount z. Anyone can see that the cards are with FdJ as failure to agree amount z causes more harm to Barca than it does to him. That's where we still are and where we will likely stay till the end of the transfer window. Everything else appears to be noise.
Says more about the actual poster in my opinion
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Well Frenkie is over here in the states at the moment so it is early morning, he is probably finishing off his pancake stack at Denny's before heading into the meeting. In truth I don't think this article is saying much, we know they want Frenkie to leave but unless they are bringing his cash in unmarked bills to the meeting he is not likely to change his stance.
Maybe he didn’t have all that power under woody? Woody seems to have been a let’s try and recreate SAF whereas Arnold seems to be more modern in his thinking. I think it’s pointless judging him from woodys time. The job starts now. Anyway let’s not derail this thread it’s nothing to do with frenkie, that’s all on Barca
Ah god so close, I want to believe this and get all giddy, but it had to be bloody sport didn’t it!
Next few hours could be anywhere from 3 hours - 3 weeks. We're still waiting for that Chelsea bid that was due in the next few hours last week.
Yeah you really can’t judge anyone now until the window closes. It’s a new team in new roles. We can hold a post mortem in September but none of them have done anything yet to get upset about. Let’s see how it turns out.
Never deal with Barca again after this (I remember saying the opposite months ago when this looked to be going swimmingly and FDJ looked a cert to be our first signing)
American companies that speculate in football interest growing and there being a bidding war for TV rights shortly where major companies (Amazon, CBS, NBC, Fox) will all battle it out. There's a similar speculation about the premiership - which is partly why Chelsea owners have spent 4.5bn - they all reckon it will be worth far more than that in the not so distant future.
Good. And we know Barca want him gone if he won’t cut wages so all roads lead to Manchester?!!
I think after being messed about in the past with incompetent members of staff and the sorts, it's difficult for people to change their way of thinking when you see what you believe to be the same stuff happening again
I get that but I do think there needs to be a period of benefit of the doubt. It’s a new team - even the scouts left and have been restructured.
I'm amazed he got the DOF job if he had that many disagreements about how Woody was running the club. Reports say that Murtough had a close relationship with Woodward. I do wonder how much of this management shakeup is just PR by Murtough / Arnold.
He wasn't DOF for a decade. He was doing stuff like rebuilding the youth side, women's team etc. and took over as DOF in 2021. He was given autonomy on player recruitment only this year.
So there are 2 options:
1) he doesn’t take a pay cut and stays (effectively doing a Bale)
2) he doesn’t take a pay cut, but rather moves to United
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