Agree... Problem is footballers change their minds faster then my wife when we head upstairs...
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Honestly this is like a wife saying "yeah, me husband's left me, told me he doesn't love me anymore, moved in with another woman and got her pregnant...
...but I'm sure he's just going through a phase - he'll be back"
Or 'd', Chelsea just threw a ridiculous salary at him and he got swayed...
Do they?
So basically, the only pros we have going for us at the moment are that we'd offer higher wages and he played under ETH for 1-1/2 seasons. Oh, and they're both dutch.
Meanwhile, Chelsea are based in London, have won the CL and league more times than we have in the past decade, and have CL next season.
I think we still get this over the line.
Meanwhile, Chelsea are based in London, have won the CL and league more times than we have in the past decade, and have CL next season.
I think we still get this over the line.
You are one delusional fella. You are complicit in eating all the shit the Glazers ram down our throat. Still too early to complain about our shambles of a transfer window or is now a suitable time for you on the eve of the Premier League restarting?
Exhibit A: John Obi Mikel!
Obviously an extreme example, but footballers in general aren't the most loyal lot.
I'd agree with that if it wasn't for the bloodsucking monsters that WILL eat you alive if you dare venture out at dawn or dusk.
I mean before he signed, he demanded a lot of assurances and power. Apparently we craved because we wanted to get our man, but this could easily be one of the downsides of this.
Didn't Ajax fans mention that transfers are a distinct weak point of his?
rate this transfer window for us so far - from 0 to 10
Maybe Barca have agreed to pay their new signings 5p a week for the next million years
Didn’t chelsea actually have to pay us a transfer fee for him because we signed him and then he wanted to go to Chelsea instead? It was such a bizarre transfer.
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Yep, we earned money off someone who didn't even train with us
That's not an extreme example, that's an exception and why he is remembered. As a group footballers aren't less loyal than any other group of people on earth as far as I can tell.
I think most of us wanted us to move on about 6 weeks ago. There are other midfielders out there who could improve our midfield, the club do pay attention to social media, the vast majority of United fans seem to have joined the manager and fallen into the FdJ or bust approach.
If there had been more pressure from the fans on social media to look for new targets we might be starting the season with a new midfielder, rather than a weaker version of the sub par selection we started last season with.
Everybody assumes that because EtH is a manager he knows everything. Which makes me think back to RR last year thinking because he’d managed Hoffenheim he knew how to handle United. EtH is in for a very unpleasant surprise about the overall competitiveness of the PL this year unless he brings in some reinforcements in midfield.
Nobody thinks it has gone well, but there is still time left to rectify things.
I don't think De Jong and has been stringing ETH and United along, we're a viable option should he have to leave but if a PSG Bayern or even a Chelsea comes in I'm sure we're aware from the player he may turn us down. United/ETH are in it for the long shot, to fast track a top player from a tricky position with no CL and the last 9 years of mess.
At the very outset I said we might have to walk before we can run, we could get lucky and Frenkie comes or we have work our way up if not. I don't mind the punt the club and manager is taking at this stage.
At the very outset I said we might have to walk before we can run, we could get lucky and Frenkie comes or we have work our way up if not. I don't mind the punt the club and manager is taking at this stage.
The people still believing this is happening are like creationists who believe dinosaur fossils were put here to test their faith. Fair play to you all
Honestly I have no issue on losing out on FDJ. If he chooses Chelsea then so be it. They have things we can’t currently offer. I don’t think it will be through a lack of effort from United as it seems we have a few agreed quite early and either the player has cold feet or has had his head turned by Chelsea. This is out of our control but it doesn’t seem to be the age old issue of going after the wrong profile of player or not being willing to strike a deal quickly.
He also may well be a player worth waiting for and if we have the nod that he will eventually sign then so be it. ETH knows him inside out and FDJ knows the system and role he will play so he can probably bed in relatively quick.
If we don’t get him though we will be left scrambling to buy a second choice and then not having enough of a preseason to bed them in to the team and tactics so it’s far from ideal start to a critical season.
No idea who he is but it says expert on the screen so he must know his shit!
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Who was the player that had a medical at spurs and signed for Chelsea?
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Willian?
None of us really know either way.The people still believing this is happening are like creationists who believe dinosaur fossils were put here to test their faith. Fair play to you all
You just have the two extremes of people who take every positive piece of news as gold and people who panic everytime anyone says anything remotely negative about it anywhere on the Internet.
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Yeah that's the one.
Please tell me what more can United do (because Chelsea can’t magically make the deferred wages disappear no matter how bad the meltdown is in here) to force this transfer through when the issue is between Barca/FDJ.
Please tell me how this is embarrassing after a deal has been agreed with United/Barca.
What more can United do now? Please tell me….if United doing their job and agreeing a fee is embarrassing then wow
Willian.
Let’s not forget Robinho who signed for City but thought it was Chelsea in his press conference.
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I'm not we are paying a heavy price for such a tunnel vision approach, now the big guns have got involved confidence is low
United, Chelsea, all the same to some
Is ‘embarrassing to our club’ starting to pull a ‘Rich Strike?’
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