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Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Guys, I wouldn't worry about the Chelsea links. Things generally work out for us! We'd be really happy when he stinks up the place like Hazard did.
Should have added some "enhh" in Ten Hag's quote
And you just know letting your wife make the football decisions for you based on the city and lifestyle means your football caereer would be more over than playing at CB suddenly
Thats what i'm saying, the Athletic is reliable, so if they're saying Chelsea is interested, using their own sources, then why haven't any of the reporters who cover Chelsea all the time got it?
I understand the guy that wrote this is reliable for Chelsea, but they're literally the only ones, outside of Spain that is, thats reporting Chelseas interest? I'd have thought some English journos would have picked up on it by now. They seem too with most other targets?
Now you just need to post that every other day for 2 months and you're golden.
Eric ten Hag only had this to say earlier “Frenkie! Frenkie what the feck are you doing!? Heh”
I've already posted this but I think, as interested as Chelsea might be in De Jong, they won't be willing to match our offer for him. If Chelsea were interested enough to be willing to pay as much as we have one would think they'd have done so by now.
That’s just silly.
This is going to end up as the worst/most embarrassing saga we've been involved in if he ends up at Chelsea. A whole summer potentially wasted chasing a rival's players, and the cultural reset damaged at the first hurdle. Club can't let that happen.
Unfortunately, this is exactly what happens, especially in politics on social media.
I still believe we are going to get him. But better be prepared for the alternatives just in case.
If ETH really really wants him, which seems to be, then pay for a bit more and get him.
If ETH really really wants him, which seems to be, then pay for a bit more and get him.
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Gary Neville is dead to me
I prefer Tielemans anyway 
We’d be very silly to not be sounding out other targets at this point
Would it happen to be the same source that was feeding Sport all their information too?
I just don't believe we are chasing that smug faced cnut all summer when he has no interest in joining us. I simply don't. That would such a major feck up.
Probably a Sport journalist then
Well it’s someone at Barcelona seeing as he mentioned he was in Miami for the game.
We haven’t been chasing though, we made a bid, it was accepted, De Jong doesn’t want to join us unless he has no other options and we’ve left it at that.
Exactly, it'll be the same person thats been telling Sport what to write. Sport seem to have dropped that now.
As has been said, Chelsea know the price to pay, and they don't want to pay it. Barca aren't going to accept a lower offer just because it's Chelsea
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You guys are easily embarrassed, let him join Chelsea, if a player didn’t want to join us and ended up joining another team it’s no loss to us, he didn’t value us enough, we don’t need any more of that. At this point it’s all speculation and he could well still come here but if he doesn’t don’t lose your minds over it.
Third hand though, not second hand even. Sounds like Chinese whispers to me.
I think the only way Chelsea get him is if we pull our bid and Barcelona have to accept a bid of around £50m instead.
What other targets? ETH believes they are all inferior and prefers to go with internal options if it comes to it
That just means he didn’t hear it from the player, his agent or Laporta. There’s still many other people who would be privy to this deal.
The Athletic are genuinely as bad as the rest of them these days. It was a great idea when it started but they’ve succumbed to clickbait/aggregator pieces like the rest of journos because not enough people were paying for the subscription.
Basically, he’s being forced out but doesn’t want to move and, even if he can be convinced to leave, he will want his money. Until that impasse is cleared, he might as well be linked with Bognor Regis for all we care.
Chelsea’s name us being used I suspect by Barca to try and get us to pay more
So many feeling embarrased this morning, willing to walk away already.
Get a hold of yourselves lads, This ships not for sinking.
Get a hold of yourselves lads, This ships not for sinking.
Now this is better.
Why would Barca be leaking that to The Athletic?
I honestly don’t know, but there has to be someone else would could do a job and move Fred into his role instead for a while? De Jong might be the best option but there has to be someone in another position we could get instead to bolster numbers.
One of my biggest concerns with managers like Ten Hag is how rigid they are when it comes to the requirements needed to be successful. Sometimes you don’t get what you want or what’s ideal but you have to get results. We can’t finish 5th this season and say it’s because we didn’t get De Jong, that isn’t going to fly with anyone.
Chelsea players don't actually live in London do they? I was under the impression that most lived close to their training in Cobham, which is in Surrey!
Seems like GNev playing at being a itk twitter twunt to me.
I think Chelsea are definitely interested (Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey are both good journalists for them) but they won't pay as much as we will.
I will never get over full grown adults feeling embarrassed by a football team
Thats not going to happen. EtH is dead set on this happening.
It's like the whole de Jong prefers Chelsea etc, how do we know? He's not said anything to anyone in the media at all, and i seriously doubt he'd be telling people what he'd prefer knowing it would likely be leaked. My guess is Barca is saying he prefers Chelsea to get them involved and start a bidding war, as they know United REALLY want him and would likely pay a bit more.
Still, thats my opinion, i really don't know whats going on as does no one else here
Absolutely. And its probably the kind of schoolboy stuff to make us panic and fork out.
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