This Chelsea transfer target scattergun approach reminds me of the good old Woodward era. 
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
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My conspiracy theory is Boehly still wants Ronaldo - it’s the perfect statement commercial signing - and him “going after” De Jong helps Barcelona out to get us to panic and pay the wages which helps Mendes get Silva to Barcelona. They were all in Barcelona around the same time. Them signing De Jong makes no sense.
Maybe he’s on jabbas payroll. He gets his lever pulled every time he’s in BarcelonaHe’s also forgetting we just bought a centre half ourselves, from the Dutch league, for a similar fecking fee
They’d have paid it now then wouldn’t they and got the deal done?
What would they be waiting for?
Makes no sense to me
Alas I fear you are right.
The chase is always more fun than the catch!
Ducker the fecker.
He Will Sign for us
He Will Sign for us
Still shocks me that people like him gets payed for giving his opinion about this.
They're saying in the media that they're waiting for de Jong to give the green light for a possible transfer before making a bid. Why would it matter? If they were willing to cover the fee AND the wages (which is what were led to believe the issue is) then they wouldn't need a green light. They'd create the green light by paying the wages?
Do they? Don't they have Chilwell?
They will need to replace Henderson within the next couple of seasons and I suspect he'll be their number 1 target
Looks like Duckerbot is also starting to crack under the pressure of Frenkiemania.
Only the strong will survive!
Only the strong will survive!
This one is in the bag.
LETS F***ING GOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exactly. Again it makes no sense.
They are waiting for the green light over the wage issue however they are going to sort the wage issue out themselves by paying more money.
In essence Boehly is trapped in transfer muppet stasis, frozen in time waiting for a green light that he himself is going to generate.
I needed that dopamine hit. Thanks fella.
"Hey Dele, look what the fecker James Ducker tweeted! haha not very insightful innit blud"
Big day tomorrow right?
Astronomical.
Grade A as far as im concerned. When Simon is referred to as Mr. 'I am told' Man, its not a compliment. I have nothing against him or Dan personally, but they waffle like feck
Frenkie the 13th. A new horror
Always here mate.
When you think about it like that, it really does make absolutely no sense. Makes you wonder who's actually spreading all this crap about Chelsea? Seems like it arrived out of nowhere with Ornsteins report, built a bit of steam, negotiations were underway, Chelsea were favourites... fast forward 24 hours it's kinda fizzled out.
Were now told Chelsea are still just interested, they were offered several players, de Jong included and they're considering it. They're waiting for a green light from de Jong before they enter negotiations and bid, but they're willing to pay his wage issue off, essentially creating the green light themselves and sealing the transfer.
However its also been reported that they only value him at €50m and won't match Uniteds bid.
Now who's spreading what. If you ask me, Barca are spreading the imminent bid etc whilst Chelsea have said we don't want to pay as much as United.
Who bloody knows
There’s a fukin fly buzzing around as I’m trying to take a dump. His buzz sounds like “done”
It’s hard to say with Chelsea this season as they’ve literally been linked with so many players this summer and have chased plenty of dead ends.
There’s also been plenty of reports suggesting De Jong didn’t want Chelsea if you remember and it was reiterated again yesterday by SkySports United were his preference.
The whole thing is very strange. The only consistent brief has actually been from United stating they are comfortable in the deal and that De Jong wants the move.
I thought that the buying club can't pay the owed wages because it goes against some tax law. Sure I read that somewhere.
Liverpool will have that wrapped up before the next summer transfer window opens guaranteed!
Green light from DeJong to see if he is even interested in coming to London.
No point in putting a bid in, when he is not interested in leaving Barcelona.
If I don't have my dreams, I have nothing.
Trust me, I speak fly
That's good enough for me.
But the reason he doesn't want to leave, if the media is to be believed, is because of his deferred wages. As soon as they were sorted, he'd be open to moving.
Now if Chelsea are willing to cover them wages and pay them off, then why do they need to wait for a green light? They're literally creating that green light. The media says he's open to leaving if the issues are sorted. All Chelsea has to do is ask his agent, if we pay his deferred wages, will he come to Chelsea. Simple.
There's more to this than meets the eye. Does he really want to move to Chelsea? ARE the wages the issue? Do United have every reason to be confident, does he only want to move to OT, hence no rush from United to sort the wage issue?
It's so confusing
I am sure you already know that flies have 7,848 different words for sh1t.
Sounds like club aren't optimistic anymore thenJust been listening to Athletic podcast and Mitten said a month ago the answer was FDJ was option a, b and c. Now he’s being told there is a list of plan B’s. I believe we will sign a midfielder.
I think Ronnie is so desperate to leave he will engineer a move too, so we HAVE to sign a forward, especially with Martial injured.
Hey, Cavani is still available!
Barca can register all their signings now
Here is something to send you all off to bed on a cheery note.
Goldbridge's predicted starting 11 for the weekend:
Goldbridge's predicted starting 11 for the weekend:
De Gea
Shaw Lindelof Maguire Dalot
Fred McTominay
Elanga Bruno Sancho (if fit)
Rashford
Shaw Lindelof Maguire Dalot
Fred McTominay
Elanga Bruno Sancho (if fit)
Rashford
He did say he got a txt from Miami after the Barca friendly that made his go ‘ooh noooo!’ (He groaned that bit) which is why he dropped his confidence from 60/40 to 50/50. He declined to say what the txt said. Make of that what you will.
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