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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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They can probably loan one or two from the oppo team?
Lord, the press over there is highly useless. I checked in on searches and got a “breaking” story that Koulibaliy may feature for us against Tottenham …. Genius sleuthing.
Romero's getting incredibly hyped up about Alemany, Yuste, and Laporta meeting with someone in a restaurant.
They’re probably going to announce Bernardo. When this stuff happens, it’s normally for levers or arrivals
What the hell have you just made me watch
Embarrassing journalist and club. I hope Barcelona FC gets liquidated.
Maybe they just dine with some women? It’s evening after all
my lack of Spanish is translating this to something about Frenkie de Jong, something about Alemany, and a restaurant. Laporta must have read Michael Scott's article in Small Businessman about Chili's being the new golf course.
Laporta on his second dinner for the day. This might be solved tonight.
BREAKING NEWS: Laporta may or may not have had a wee in the office toilets today.
Journalism.
Journalism.
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Within the briefcase are 3 envelopes.. so can someone please give Brendan a call to advise us as to what the likely contents are of said envelopes?
THIS IS WHAT WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR
To Man Utd...Please and thank you god bless
One might say
The only thing that is not happening is things not happening
The only thing that is not happening is things not happening
What I'm not going to miss once this saga is over the same info posted over and over again just from different aggregators
He accompanied that with a ton of "calma", which tells me that it's not as major a development as we expect.
The club and people surrounding it are all clowns. Shame we've been clowned on even harder because he's off to Chelsea imo.
and Godot.
Good christ.
Awwwww.... well, Frenkie will become enemy number one now
"economic lever". What an embarrassing club, bragging about levers to the world. Scouse levels of narcissism.
Next time I need to provide an update on a project I'm working on at work It'll be one slide that says "Things are happening"
I haven't been in here much. Just to catch myself up to speed, am I right in thinking this is the priority of outcomes for the relevant parties:
Barcelona:
1. Best case scenario they keep FDJ and he agrees to reduced wages (and give up the deferred wages).
2. They sell FDJ. To United or, apparently, Chelsea.
3. FDJ does not agree to a reduction in wages or to give up his claim to deferred wages. They are stuck in a bind as to who they can register of the new players.
United:
1. FDJ agrees to join us.
2./3. FDJ stays at Barca, either under his current contract or a reduced one. I guess the latter is the worst of the two, as it would be unpleasant to see Barca get away with this.
4. FDJ goes to Chelsea.
FDJ:
1. Stay at Barca under his existing contract.
No idea how to place reduced $ at Barca vs coming to United. That's up to him. He doesn't have to entertain either of these options.
Barcelona:
1. Best case scenario they keep FDJ and he agrees to reduced wages (and give up the deferred wages).
2. They sell FDJ. To United or, apparently, Chelsea.
3. FDJ does not agree to a reduction in wages or to give up his claim to deferred wages. They are stuck in a bind as to who they can register of the new players.
United:
1. FDJ agrees to join us.
2./3. FDJ stays at Barca, either under his current contract or a reduced one. I guess the latter is the worst of the two, as it would be unpleasant to see Barca get away with this.
4. FDJ goes to Chelsea.
FDJ:
1. Stay at Barca under his existing contract.
No idea how to place reduced $ at Barca vs coming to United. That's up to him. He doesn't have to entertain either of these options.
That means things are happening.One might say
The only thing that is not happening is things not happening
Frenkie is now a lever. It’s not been going good for that poor guy.
What they gonna do? Abduct him in the night, stuff him in a box, drive him to the airport where a United official is waiting and do a secret swap with several rucksacks of money??
Reads like they’re about to kill him.
Wait…you mean they have to sell De Jong to register their signings? They don’t hold all the cards? Who knew?
It’s like a landlord going around telling his mates “Guess what pal, I’ve just remortgaged another house. Got shed loads of money now. Might remortgage another one next week if I’m desperate.”
Trap door about to get pulled…
Correct.
This is a significant development. Barca want him gone. All pretenses of the 50% paycut are just that, a pretense. They want him GONE!
Now it is a question of how they turn Barca media and fans on him. Because the 5th lever will be preventing Barca from registering other players.
Frenkie de Jong stars in "The Fifth Lever"
He once threw Laporta out a window for giving Mikky a foot rub.
How many levers have been pulled/sold/pushed/pulled so far?
We MIGHT have played this well, you know
Oh yeah, Yuste, Alemany, and Laporta definitely met up with Ali Dursun in that restaurant. This is definitely about Frenkie de Jong.
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