"Help help I'm being repressed" - Not Frenkie
Frenkie de Jong - Part 2 - Chase Harder.
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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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FDJ is an absolute beast. I thought it was £80m, no?Very much different profiles yes, but both would play alongside Casemiro and Bruno if signed, so basically fighting for the same position. Mount is a great presser higher up the pitch and a goal threat for sure, but FdJ smokes him in almost all midfield metrics. De Jong is world class, Mount is a good player imo, but not someone who's going to take us to the next level.
I'm having too much fun with these charts I should stop
Didnt we agree a ~60M deal for FdJ with Barca last year? That's similar to what Chelsea are asking for Mount tbf.
Only a tier 1 journo for Barca but we know nothing is moving him from his "dream club"
I’ve seen no Barca journo say we are pursuing him.
Well what the journo actually said was Barca needs to sell players. This could include De Jong but the problem with that is no one wants to leave
We are not going there again. Levers or not, he wants to play for free.
Yeah Erik has really gotta find an alternative who can offer our midfield a similar skillset
Yep, that’s literally all that has been said. Nothing about Manchester United being in pursuit at all, this thread has kind of just run with that quote. Which is fine, discussion board and all that. I’m just pointing it out in light of all the ‘when will we learn’ shit I’ve been reading.
There really isn't anyone as good as him unfortunately, so more so than finding an alternative he'd have to revamp what he wants his midfield to be.
Glad I saw this. Thought there was an update
Maybe that explains him moving more towards that Mount/Caicedo profile of midfielder
Last season we agreed a fee for 65M euros. That was never the problem, De Jong just doesnt wanna play here. If it was upto me, I would bid 80M for him and give him 350k. Instantly takes our midfield to the next level.
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I hope a whole load of people tell Laporta and the rest of those a-holes to get fecked. They were so desperate to force him out, now they’re claiming to be so clever for resisting the big offers.
Sounds like a ‘come and get him’ to me.
**insert ‘show me the money’ meme here!**
The best thing Frenkie De Jong will ever do at Old Trafford, is to have the ball smashed at him by Bruno Fernandes whilst lying on the ground.
He, Laporta and Barcelona can eff off.
He, Laporta and Barcelona can eff off.
According to The Sun Man City want to sign FDJ for 90 millions.
We'll it's only Sun reporting but if he goes to City I would love to see the state OF this forum.
We'll it's only Sun reporting but if he goes to City I would love to see the state OF this forum.
They’ve lost 1 midfielder in Gundogan and they want to buy 2
there all about squad depth. It’s unreal.If he goes there the caf will explode haha
Yeah that would really suck if true, especially for Erik since it's so clear that he likes this player so much.
He would be exchanging one cheating club for another. I don‘t think this is true btw.
Bring out the big monies... €101m Euros... or maybe €100,000,001. Tempting.
It's the sun, it's just another one of their crappy clickbait headlines looking to gain some free clicks from irate United fans. We know how it goes...
Probably indirectly telling Man City to up their bud
He is such a liar, he was pushing him out the door so hard. Where I am at is that Frenkie should stay there and milk every penny out of them.
I can’t see why they would buy Kovacic and then De Jong.
Frenkie would still be a dream addition to United, but after last year it seems the least likely thing to happen. Then again, maybe the calming of the storm gives Frenkie more room to decide what he really wants too, since the battles of the ego has had its peak, and he clearly beat Laporta and the Barca fans who all pretty much attacked him less than a year ago.
But while Frenkie would be perfect, even if he does come you cannot rely on one player too much. Maybe it's good in a way that he didn't come because it did offer a way to try different setups, and thus different solutions to the midfield problems of United. Now someone like Rabiot for instance seems like a pretty good addition, while last year he'd seem a misfit (at least to me). Even Mount sounds more like someone who ETH could mould into a useful CM, who will not be Frenkie (or even Eriksen I think), but who will offer much more control than Fred.
It's still that someone like Frenkie offers way more cover to imminent suspensions (and injury, loss of form, etc) of Casemiro. So if Mount and/or Rabiot are the only covers brought in, I think you'll run into a lot of the same as last season whenever Case isn't available the way you want him to be. In that sense it sucks that Rice won't come, and we're still kinda stuck hoping for a player who won't come. Heck, even Neves would've been nice with such a responsibility.
You guys think someone else linked to United will over the Eriksen-relief and the Case-cover that Frenkie would have? How big is your level of trust in that FDJ-alternative?
But while Frenkie would be perfect, even if he does come you cannot rely on one player too much. Maybe it's good in a way that he didn't come because it did offer a way to try different setups, and thus different solutions to the midfield problems of United. Now someone like Rabiot for instance seems like a pretty good addition, while last year he'd seem a misfit (at least to me). Even Mount sounds more like someone who ETH could mould into a useful CM, who will not be Frenkie (or even Eriksen I think), but who will offer much more control than Fred.
It's still that someone like Frenkie offers way more cover to imminent suspensions (and injury, loss of form, etc) of Casemiro. So if Mount and/or Rabiot are the only covers brought in, I think you'll run into a lot of the same as last season whenever Case isn't available the way you want him to be. In that sense it sucks that Rice won't come, and we're still kinda stuck hoping for a player who won't come. Heck, even Neves would've been nice with such a responsibility.
You guys think someone else linked to United will over the Eriksen-relief and the Case-cover that Frenkie would have? How big is your level of trust in that FDJ-alternative?
All referencing The Sun. Nothing at all to see here.
They’ve already got Kovacic. They can feck off.
Even if they sign a peak Messi and CR7, I wouldn't be worried. Their squad is as perfect as it can get already and they can only play 11 players. So feck it.
I might be wrong, but I don't think it was the colour red that was the reason why Frenkie didn't want to leave his "dream club" Barcelona.
Rabiot signed a new contract with Juve
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