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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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The issue is we have nothing from the player himself. When a player is discussing preferences you usually get a bit of info from the player saying they love a certain area or what not. This time it's all hearsay, speculation, opinions.
It's always "the general feeling is" or "talk within the team" or "he's told teammates". It's always reports that can't be verified for could easily be put out by anyone. Doesn't matter who's reporting it, most of the crap is coming from Barca it seems and I can't take anything from them seriously.
Again that's just my opinion on stuff, but until something something comes from the player it's all speculation and anything could happen
I think you’re right and that’s why this feels so weird and why so many take his stance at face value. It will all come out eventually.
Still shocked that changing the title to reflect his name correctly didn't have an immediate impact.
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I was sure he'd be right on the phone to ten Hag to give the green light when we'd done that
Seriously don't get the "hope he stays and fecks them" posts.
What, do we compete in LaLiga or am I missing something?!
Who gives a feck about Barcelona?!
Couldn't care less about what they do, how they do it, and what they win or don't win.
What i do want is for our club to prosper and play better football.
And the way to do that is - buying or making better players.
One of who is fecking Frenkie De Jong.
Now, get that fecking thumb out of your ass Arnold, and sign that miserable son of a bitch stuck in Barcelona!
Fecking sake. It's not that hard. Splash the cash. Tighter than a duck's butt you are.
Sign the dutch cnut. He's fecking tight like a tiger.
What, do we compete in LaLiga or am I missing something?!
Who gives a feck about Barcelona?!
Couldn't care less about what they do, how they do it, and what they win or don't win.
What i do want is for our club to prosper and play better football.
And the way to do that is - buying or making better players.
One of who is fecking Frenkie De Jong.
Now, get that fecking thumb out of your ass Arnold, and sign that miserable son of a bitch stuck in Barcelona!
Fecking sake. It's not that hard. Splash the cash. Tighter than a duck's butt you are.
Sign the dutch cnut. He's fecking tight like a tiger.
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Personally, if we're not getting him I hope he stays at Barca and fecks them. That would mean that they may then HAVE to sell or cancel his contract and it'd mean that there is still a chance of us getting him next year.
If he leaves for another club this summer, I don't think we'll ever get him
FDJ making his debut for Chelsea.
Sources at Utd are quietly confident they can do a deal for FDJ. They have had assurances.
Sources at Utd are quietly confident they can do a deal for FDJ. They have had assurances.
Everything Barca are doing is odd. Clubs prefer to sell to Barca whilst not knowing how they will pay (watch Leeds owner video), players are going to Barca over other clubs.
Players like Bernado want Barca when he is competing for CL and PL. Nothing makes sense to me.
I get where you are coming from but players very seldomly come out in public until after the transfer is completed.
However, there is no smoke without fire and all reports from the very beginning was that he needs CL football. I also refuse to believe that it is only coming from Barca, pretty much most journalists from Chelsea and Utd have also mentioned his preference is Chelsea over us if he decides to leave.
Frenkie testimonial with Chelsea
"We wouldn't keep insisting if we didn't have assurances from the player"
I bet he crotch chops us when he scores at OT for Chelsea
I'm assuming you are one of those guys who can't take a clue.
He doesn't want to sign for us. If he is stuck because he cares about those unpaid wages, he'd have negotiated with us for that money. It's obvious he is hoping to get the money and stay in Barcelona or waiting for better options.
He will leave soon. Its only a matter of time before they come to a settlement.
Well no, the CL requirement for someone like de Jong, with no confirmation from himself, would be a given for a high class player going from Barca to another team. The thing is, we don't know what he's told ten Hag. If CL requirement was an absolute must, it makes no sense for us to be in for him for this long as it would have been an instant rejection when we enquired.
Again, most journos are just using the fact that Chelsea have CL football and are based in London as the reason why that would be his preference. Some also adding that they think the fact Chelsea have been more successful lately as another factor, but the fact remains it's still just speculation. It might be true, i can't say for sure it's not and neither can anyone else. We just have to wait and see
I know it’s been an epic thread and personally I’ve just tried to have fun as a muppet. But it’s becoming painfully evident this deal is very unlikely to happen. 17m owed is simply not the only thing stopping this deal. It may have appeared so a few weeks ago, but not now.
I personally think we won’t hear anything further from Utd until they have got a couple more signings in at least to soften the blow. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they just didn’t comment and let the deadline pass and hope it just passes over.
I personally think we won’t hear anything further from Utd until they have got a couple more signings in at least to soften the blow. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they just didn’t comment and let the deadline pass and hope it just passes over.
Yeah, i'm the one that rapes and pillages. What a dumb thing to say.
The man hasn't said a word about us, or Barcelona, or Chelsea....he's keeping quiet.
If you go by latin - qui tacet consentire videtur.
Where on earth did you see read that he doesn't want to sign for us?
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There should be a riot at the stadium if he signs for Chelsea. We cannot allow that to stand as fans. The whole thing is such a joke. Huge black mark against the manager as well. Again, IF he signs for them.
He's literally the only guy pushing this hard. I know people are going to say he's reliable, but i've heard others say he's not amazingly so recently.
I think he's just keeping interest going because theres absolutely bugger all happening lately and his 48 hour thing is only because of the registration. He has absolutely no idea, as do we.
He’s also just quoting Burt on United too. He knows nothing on the United side. I imagine United now are keeping their cards pretty close to their chest.
Because his camp has never told us no
Honestly, at this point Di Maria vibes are a good thing, right? At least he signed
So true!
His relationship with ETH! He wouldn’t string him along like this! They are in constant communication with each other!
Love your optimism but I’m looking at it from the point of view, virtually every report we hear is that he favours chelsea if a Barca stay isn’t possible. Whether most of them are BS or not, it’s still every report. Not a single one is showing confidence or belief he will go to Utd.
We are all just trying to get a sugar rush off one line from Andy Mitten at the moment saying he’s a bit more confident than last week. Well his confidence last week was zero. He’s probably on 1% now.
As time passes it just feels like Barca or Chelsea now.
Feel like he’s decently reliable but not Ornstein/Law/Romano level. He seems to have pretty solid sources from within English clubs but I’m not so sure I believe the stuff he says about Barca.
If that is truly the case, then it’s probably the greatest achievement we’ve had in a transfer saga under the Glazers. I actually can’t remember anymore when we last kept our cards close to our chest in such a high profile transfer.
Think some sports lawyer said he essentially will be a free agent then , because the old contract effectivly gets voided when the new one gets signed.
Gonna be super embarrassing for Chelsea when they miss out on Kounde, Raphina and De Jong in one window, ouch...
What’s the current feeling amongst Chelsea fans about the likelihood of signing FDJ? I know last week most chelsea fans thought it was absurd and pretty much no chance.
Hope he stays put and makes things very messy.
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