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Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Thats not Malacia? Read the tweet wrong.
Although hes not representing Malacia right? Malacia is using a family lawyer and his father
No thats his agent.
If Barca are so intent on keeping FDJ why would they be discussing the transfer and agreeing on a fee? There has to be something in it and there’s still potential for it to happen, a lot depends on the player but I’m guessing that after dealing with his agent for Malacia we would have an idea that he’s open to a move if Barca need to sell.
They aren't they want to get rid of him.
Van der Kraan is on now!
Which one?
I agree! It should be the fecking thread title!
Why would they need to blame the player? It's not their star player leaving
it's what they do. every time.
I thought Malacia sacked his agent for his dad?On the left
Because Barcelona is the best club in the world of course...
The agent got crumbs all over his gut ffs
only just now saw that Dursun and his agency also represent van de Beek and Lindelöf. Should have a decent established relationship there already, that certainly won't hurt.
some of the barca fans will fall for it but it is only a sad pr move - de jong will be a united player in two weeks time
No info from VDK on Frenkie. Ben Jacobs is on next though so he may shed some light on supposed the Chelsea interest.
Bigly.
I'm fairly certain ETH wouldn't be insisting that we continue to push to sign him if he wasn't sure that de Jong would come or had assurances that he wants to play here. It would make no sense at all
Was that his dad on the photo maybe?
Exactly, he also shares agents with Lindelof, Donny and now Malacia. No doubt there have been conversations to test the water before negotiations with Barca.
I mean, lets be honest, how many transfers are actually done without the buying club knowing the player wants to play for them? I'd say very very very few, if any. It's pretty common knowledge that clubs sound out players agents and get assurances that they're open to the move and actually want to do it.
I'm probably in a minority but I don't want a player that would rather stay at Barca.
Shades of Di Maria?
At the end of the day, players want to feel valued. Barca may be a dream club for some players, but if they are not integral to a manager's plans and are asked to take a big pay cut they will soon start to think that just maybe they are in the wrong place, despite it being a childhood dream to play for that team.
It's like a spitting image. Like Clark Kent and Superman.
of course, but since it's United, some people will believe it because in their mind we're the most daft and incompetent club in the world.
If FDJ changes his mind (which is possible), then it shouldn't reflect badly on Utd.
But it would.
I don't believe for one second that we've gone through all these negotiations without getting the green light from FDJ first. This isn't a small deal and we'd never waste so much time without getting assurances from the player. My guess is that there's a lot of bluffing going on here because Barca owes FDJ a lot of money, hence his public stance is that he's happy to stay. It's possible that Barca are pressuring him to give up some of the deferred money, and we're caught in the middle.
One thing is for sure, Barca need the money, and it's gonna come from the sale of FDJ.
One thing is for sure, Barca need the money, and it's gonna come from the sale of FDJ.
Chances are de Jong isn't going to change his mind.
Barca are covering their arses now and building the narriative that they want him to stay, they know he wants to stay, but to do so he'll have to accept a vastly reduced salary.
It'll be a case of we did all we can, we gave him a viable option of staying but he refused. They'll play the "He chose money over us" card
the fecking fraud?
Berbatov was beautiful with sly eyes like demon.
Yeah, but he can obviously still change his mind. I'll celebrate the day he signs, but not before.
Di Maria ….and that didn’t turn out too well
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If we don’t get De Jong then it doesn’t look good for us at all, year after year we have protracted transfer dealings like this, who knows what the truth is but either way, if we don’t get him it’ll be another poor summer.
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