We’ll considering Dortmund was negotiating with us for about a year for sancho… yet city can just sign haaland just like that. It’s not about what level the teams are it’s about coughing up the money. Yes I get that you’ve got to negotiate the best price that suits both parties but it took Liverpool a few days to wrap up the Nunez deal… we was linked with him way before Liverpool was but alls we was doing was ‘weighing’ up and ‘preparing’ a bid as usual. By the time we prepare things another team as already took our target!
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Liverpool wingers all can operate as second strikers. I assume having a 9 will give Klopp more tactical flexibility. He could play 4-4-2 some games.
Didn't Haaland have a release clause? Much easier transfer than Sancho.
Haaland had a release clause. Sancho didnt
You have to remember that City have boundless money however it is disguised and Liverpool are successful, so both negotiating with a higher budget. We will have lost money by not qualifying for the CL, getting knocked out of cups early, league position, it is all lost income.
Would have been interesting what they would have needed to pay if he didn't have that release clause and if they would have baulked at the asking price.
People frustrated at the turnaround time of this deal, or any for Man Utd, need to accept this is how the club operate. I'm convinced a part of it is to maintain stories in the media world and retain high engagement on social media channels - which we know is an important aspect of the club operation, at least internally.
Even if they're just getting abuse from fans for taking so long to get deals done? I would like to think that we are taking a more "football first" approach now the chinless one has departed, and will just get deals done as quickly as possible to give ETH more time to work with them.
Obviously he can't do that right now with FdJ because he's on international duty, but I don't believe that we've done nothing at all yet because of social media engagements.
We are already talking to alternative targets, feck Barcelona. FdJ salary will be 19 mil next year. Good luck.
Standard negotiation tactic
We go through this every transfer whereas other clubs never seem to.
It's annoying but this could well be true. The more this story is talked about on social media the more ManUtd are in the news, which is a priority of the club.
Gotta be insane pressure on Murtough at the moment. He simply can't feck this window.
Other clubs don’t have to try and negotiate down the United tax.
Year upon year, we say the same old shite! Liverpool get Nunez done in a few days, despite speculation of a move elsewhere. Either other clubs are much better at keeping stuff quiet will doing everything in the background or they just get it done. Either way it seems nothing has changed! The optimist in me says we're trying to get all our deals over the line for one big announcement, if only!
its a dangerous game though, someone will come in and pay it for him. Who else is better than him at what he does and available?
You’re right.
Which sums up everything that’s wrong with this club.
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I'm confident we will see De Jong in Man Utd colours this summer, but it will be another few weeks. Is what it is. Remains to be seen if the club is prioritising football or remains the corporate circus it has become in the last decade. No point losing sleep over it. Enjoy the summer and see where the club is at come start of the season.
How is that the clubs problem?
A journalist decides to write about x,y,z player linked to United? Do you expect united to come out and say which rumour is true or false?
Posters are moaning that we are negotiating an 80mil price for DeJong.
Same posters would moan if we just paid up whatever Barca asked for
Same posters would moan if we just paid up whatever Barca asked for
This window is going to end up exactly like DM first window.
The club are simply awful at conducting transfers and nothing seems to change, no matter what changes happen.
We are seriously going to start the new season with McFred in the midfield.
It’s an embarrassment!
This club is supposed to be one of the biggest clubs in the world, and we need to start acting like it!
The club are simply awful at conducting transfers and nothing seems to change, no matter what changes happen.
We are seriously going to start the new season with McFred in the midfield.
It’s an embarrassment!
This club is supposed to be one of the biggest clubs in the world, and we need to start acting like it!
Its much easier to buy someone who has a definitive release clause. Comparing the Sancho deal with the Halaand deal is like comparing apples to hovercrafts....
Land Haaland just like that? That's hilarious.
To the ones getting giddy over Catalunya source saying he's one step closer, their source is his interview from the other day that the whole world has spammed for 24 hours already..
It's been plastered over every paper for months how much we have to spend. I think we're right to try and get a good deal for us.
Read what he said at the end of his sentence before replying.
Or you don’t pay as much attention to other clubs. Chelsea have been linked with Kounde since the beginning of last summer. Still haven’t signed him. How long did we hear about Mbappe being on his way to Real Madrid?
So now you know what the priority for the club is?
How about negotiation with a club who is in financial trouble.
De Jong is the priority transfer, a player who needs convincing to come, to agree a fee with Barca.
Some people act as if these things can be done in 2 days.
It's brilliant and this is the only way the game should be played. I have to admit that seeing this makes me respect the board more. We are not afraid and we know the situation of FDJ very well. Barcelona just tries to grab as much possible, because there aren't that many catalans who'd like to have dinner in camp nou or whatever they are trying to raise more money
This shift in negotiation tactics makes me understand that things are moving in the right direction. And FDJ isn't irreplaceable, also he will start pushing more towards the move, forcing the board to act more quickly and stop playing hardball.
Quiet day today.
So we didn't sign him during the outage. This club can't do anything right! 
It's an outrage.So we didn't sign him during the outage. This club can't do anything right!
There was an outage?So we didn't sign him during the outage. This club can't do anything right!
Bollocks, I missed the announcement, and assumed we'd signed FDJ and the servers melted.
Sack ten Hag, Sell De Jong.
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Other clubs don't get fleeced the way we do. Murtough is doing the right thing trying to put a stop to the ridiculous United Tax. Whether he's competent enough to actually negotiate better deals remains to be seen though.
Thanks for hammering the joke home. Missed it the first time
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