You just fecking know he'll tear it up for Chelsea 
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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Why are you asking them to take care of him?
A bit pathetic
A single tear rolled down my cheek as I posted that
I think Jorgi and/or Kante would become available before Conor.
A mistake to choose a CL winning manager over an Eredivisie winning manager?
Some people are so naive, like it is their first transfer summer.
De Jong is not joining lads, not when Chelsea are seriously interested and he obviously prefers them while we look for other midfielders all of a sudden. This all happened during the last week. The club wont brief like under Woodie, but it is quite obvious that we are looking around, even if we dont withdraw our offer and still lurk in the background.
De Jong is not joining lads, not when Chelsea are seriously interested and he obviously prefers them while we look for other midfielders all of a sudden. This all happened during the last week. The club wont brief like under Woodie, but it is quite obvious that we are looking around, even if we dont withdraw our offer and still lurk in the background.
Have you seen his beautiful bald head?
Some of us have testicular fortitude.
Marcel Van Der Kraan has just said we’re not giving up, he also said we have a an agreement with Frenkies agent (then looked like he shouldn’t have said it). First time I’ve heard we have an agreement directly with his agent.
Mind to share a link or tweet? That sounds fairly significant
Liverpool will go big on a midfielder next season (Bellingham) whilst City have Rodri and just bought Phillips.
He also represents Lindelof and Malacia so I don’t think it’s that big a deal to keep him happy. It all depends on Frenkie.
woop woop - let's get this party started!!!
Pep likes control and Frenkie doesn’t bring control. Can’t remember who said it but they described Frenkie as an accelerant. He quickens things up but can’t show things down which is important in peps teams and at Barca.
If, and thats a big if, Ten Hag has told United to hunt for De Jong based on their communication, and De Jong then simply leaves for Chelsea instead, Ten Hag will seem a bit naive.
But saying that is not the same as turning on the manager.
It's like being 35 points behind the league leaders, technically you don't give up but we all know what's happening.
Yep, saying ETH fecked up doesn't mean turning on him. If all this pursuit is based on the assurances he perceived to get from Frenkie and he doesn't join, of course that's on ETH. Also doesn't mean the others are blameless
This whole thread aint a good look mate /shrug
One of the worst transfer saga's to date and I've seen some shit ones.
Fair play to those in here who still thought we'd get him even after it was reported that he had no intention of coming to Manchester 50 times during the past 3 months though.
Choo choooooo
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Don't come into this thread with a nuanced opinion. Completely unwelcome.
We are talking about the same City right? When have they ever cared about having too many players for the same positions?
Not really mate when the information out there was that this was never likely to happen because the player didn't want to join us. The information was out there.
That on top of our track record for years made it entirely feasible that we were chasing a shadow all summer. Actually at this point I'm choosing to laugh, not at muppets but at our situation, it's better than crying.
Ralfie’s legacy lives on. I’m glad some of his fans were entertained in the press conferences, but lack of top four has massively set us back.
The board and football structure obviously take the biggest blame, goes without saying. But from the Boro cup defeat onwards, there was no excuse for not getting top four.
The board and football structure obviously take the biggest blame, goes without saying. But from the Boro cup defeat onwards, there was no excuse for not getting top four.
It’s just been on sky sports news, I can help no further.
Probably yes. But it’s valid reasons for me atleast.
It's like they have an understanding within the club that in the PL and at the highest level in Europe, games are won and lost in the midfield.Imagine having a midfield of Kante, Jorginho, Kovacic and even Gallagher and still adding FdJ
Meanwhile we have McFred and are after Rabiot. What a joke.
3 months wasted for Chelsea to come in and get it donelaughing stock of the PL.
Good addition for them and a very solid group that can rival the best in europe.
Sure but that’s the risk we had to take when we didn’t get CL football. Was always going to be difficult to get this profile of player without CL football unless they bought in to the rebuild. People were hopeful due to the EtH link but it looks like it isn’t going to pan out.
I’ll judge the club at the end of the window and how they react to the end of this saga.
I won’t start creeping around the dregs of oppo fans who are here to take the piss though and rub it in though.
I would fecking love him. I feel he'll not reach his potential at Chelsea. This guys desire is unbelievable, if he was at Liverpool or City he'd would really flourish. As much as I would love him even if we were linked I just couldn't see it happening regardless
Just been posted above.
If only football was that simple. I’m referring to style.
Also when he gets here he’ll quickly realise the EPL is a lot bigger than the two leagues he’s played in and the Champs league is only an additional. So he best turn up every week.
Just come on to post the same thing. First time I've heard of any agreement with de Jong's agent. Interesting.
They’re very different midfielders, so no. More likely that Kante or Jorginho‘s position is under threat by De Jong.
Exactly. I don't know the poster is trying to make this between ETH vs Tuchel.
Link it. Which information was out there that gave us concrete data that we could conclude categorically that FDJ was never going to move to Utd? Just give me one link. I'll wait.
Huh, interesting. He said we have a deal with the agent but the wages situation with Barca is unresolved.
Yep we have really hampered EtH by not getting top 4
I imagine our list of targets will have dramatically changed which will have been even more difficult due to the sacking of the two head scouts.
I think this window would be looking a lot different had we secured 4th
Absolute scenes when your joker of an owner buys him to play CB instead of Fofana
Quite.
Liverpool have put all their eggs in the Bellingham basket for next summer. They've shown in the past that they don't react too much when they have injury problems, they stick to their original plan.
So in 20/21 they had Van Dijk, Gomez and Matip all missing a bunch of games. They always intended on signing Konate for 21/22 so instead of buying another centreback in January all they did was bring in Kabak on loan.
They're not gonna spend all that cash on De Jong and have him as one of their highest earners when they intend on using that cash on Bellingham next year.
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