It’s simply blatant disrespect.
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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My friend I don't think you understood my post.
It was just saying the fact that ETH is now sanctioning alternative signings is very significant. I said after that that it was obvious FdJ was never coming to us in the first place as my own opinion.
The fact that Athletic and Telegraph have been briefed of the club considering alternatives with bids on the way, its more than evident which way this is going. We are at the "bid for Dembele after failing on Sancho" stage of this saga. Soon the realisation of Frenkie not coming will arrive and you'll realize you wasted countless hours in this thread I'm afraid.
It means he watched our midfield against Brighton and he knows we need more than one.
You do raise valid points and could of course be right, but how exactly did we waste hours in here? Would the time have been better invested if he ended up signing?
We should have been able to blow others out of the water with the money generated by our huge fanbase. What ended up happening was we could only just match the spending of city and PSG(their official figures, at least), so our bad management has been exposed. We may still not have won the league for a decade, but we'd surely have been a lot closer with an extra £1B to spend on the squad.
Or with true muppet beliefs, one can think that Rabiot + Savic is a bluff on Barca to get a move on if they want to sell. Can't be mucking about with an agreed fee till the end of the window.
All links to other midfielders. De Jong deal dead in the water.
I just want to know why we say we're confident, why we've insistent on putting that message out there. Hopefully we all learn the truth soon.
I really fear for the mental health of all of you.
Upper case D, too. It's Frenkie de Jong.
It's taken you eight years to come to this conclusion @villain?
Totally agree, we suck hard at bluffing but thats what this is IMHO. I've never seen the types of contortions from a a club to get rid of a contract like Barca are doing for FDJ right now. Truly some trailblazing stuff...I don't see how FDJ is going to weather this much longer.
Next they'll change all the locks to the practice pitch and make him do his own laundry...
yes, muppetry tends to be vindicated when signings pull off. Otherwise it's a bit sad if there is a host of "choo choo", "it's done", "todays the big day" for what, 80 days? All for him to eventually either stay put or move to a major rival.
I'm just saying the quiet part loudly now
If no deal happens, nothing will be learned by us. They don't give a full report to the fans on failed signings. There's every possibility we dropped out a while ago and the media are just living off old news. There's every chance we're confident. But realistically, I think we're just playing it calmly. If it's at all possible to get arguably the best CM in the world, you keep the option open. We have until the 13th to find out, and then after that we have over two weeks to get other deals finalised if it doesn't happen. If Frenkie has told Erik there's a chance, we take the chance. If he says there's no chance in hell, we move on. He clearly hasn't said no chance in hell because we're still open to the idea. We're just planning for the other possibilities now as it's nearing the 13th, and if Barca don't sell him by then, they'll probably not sell him at all.
Honestly I don't expect anyone is confident, but you keep the option there if it's possible, absolutely.
Probably just face saving until deadline day. The club said the same in the Sancho saga and the transfer eventually didn’t happen when BVB didn’t bulge on the price when everyone thought they would
I'm just saying the quiet part loudly now
fair.1,431 pages to this thread and we haven’t signed him/pulled out yet. Kept fans busy over the summer
Muppet summer camp
I mean.. I do most of my posting when i'm at work. So i'm being paid to post. So if you call being a professional muppet a waste of time, then more fool you.
Just boot him out already!
He's in jail.
Barcelona: The Upside Down as a football club.
Nah, hiring Rangnick did more damage than firing him.
My lest shred of optimism says maybe it is coming from our end deliberately to force Barca to sort their shit out.
Sure it did
Dumbest thing I have read all day, congrats
My mental health has definitely been impacted by united but not due to this pursuit of FDJ. It's the rest of the transfer business that's so damn depressing.
That's as close to a brief from the club as you'll get. We're done here.
New Midfield:
-----------------Thomas Cleverley (30M)
Morgan Schneiderlin(30M)---Fellaini (40M)
What do you guys think?
-----------------Thomas Cleverley (30M)
Morgan Schneiderlin(30M)---Fellaini (40M)
What do you guys think?
You wish
It could just as easily be United turning the screw and applying pressure to Barca to sort it out and get this done.
Scrambled is more apt.
If we were the only club in for him this mignt have legs....but we aren't.
But it says the opposite?
Rabiot is an alternative midfielder though? The point of the tweet is basically saying we're not giving up hope of signing de Jong?
As I said somewhere (here or SMS thread) I think we're getting our house in order ready to go for SMS if FDJ doesn't come. I think the Rabiot deal is completely separate
I think people are seeing the word alternative and focusing on that
If FDJ doesn't sign I think we will get SMS and Rabiot. Pretty confident about that. Probably Gakpo too.
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