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Asked what he prefers this summer, De Jong said, “I prefer to just stay with Barcelona."
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Asked what he prefers this summer, De Jong said, “I prefer to just stay with Barcelona."
Not until the ink is on the paper
Amsterdam and Barcelona, what a lads' trip!
He cant agree terms with us yet since his existing contract has not been resolved. He only can move if the club and him come to a agreement on his existing contract.
Didn't Barca pay about 75m for him originally? nice fee for them.
I’ve been solid for weeks
Players don’t need to play for their dream clubs to be fecking awesome. Weirdcafe
Ole was a Liverpool fan, Ronaldo always wanted Madrid yet was the best player in the World here. David Silva nor Aguero ever dreamed of Manchester City. In fact 99.9% of players are not playing for their dream clubs.
Did anyone take @Berbaclass up on his offer? Thought @Keefy18 would've put his neck on the line to be honest.
Sure, Barca hasn’t gone to plan for him. His best work has for sure been at Ajax. Football goes like this sometimes but I wouldn’t say Barca’s midfielders a better than him. ETH is key here and if he can get frenkie here and playing for him again, he can be world class for us, no doubt about it. He will feel love here that he has never felt there.. if we can build a ETH team and play exciting football again.. no reason he won’t love it.
this is a amazing club with some of the best fans in the world. No reason he can’t fall for this club, especially if the team is built around him.
Every day hurts. La di daWas that actually happening?!SadCafe.
Their ink will be on a lot of papers
You don’t need to fill me in on the facts (or the hypothesis) as I am aware of all of them. They are what give us a good chance of getting the deal done. The fact that the player would prefer to stay and has a contract to do so is why there remains a chance it won’t.
All your shit about public enemy is irrelevant. He will simply be seeing out his contract. And as it stands, Barcelona come out every days and say how highly they rate him and would like him to stay anyway. They are not ‘publicly calling for him to leave’ at all. All it means is they would not be able to buy new players if he stayed. They will not ‘blame him for everything’ - they are complicit in his contract, and anyone with common sense will not take very long to see that Barcelona’s financial woes are not the fault of Frenkie de Jong.
I am optimistic of him joining us. But I am also balanced enough to not question or ridicule others who are less confident, because as I’ve said, there are also reasons for them to lack confidence, regardless of how many counter reasons you give for your own confidence.
Wohooooooooo exciting news 
Can't wait to see him in a United shirt. #21 De Jong
Can't wait to see him in a United shirt. #21 De Jong The only way Frenkie must leave is if Barca cough up enough to make him happy to leave. Hell, he could ask them for the entirety of his outstanding contract to leave if he wanted and stay put when they say no.
I do think it would be funny if after all this we can't agree personal terms with Frenkie and the transfer fails and Barca are fecked.
I do think it would be funny if after all this we can't agree personal terms with Frenkie and the transfer fails and Barca are fecked.
Once again we are throwing money on player that is currently not even worth a third of that. Amazing. We never learn. Lets hope he becomes player club hope him to be. I’m hoping for the best but expecting the worse.
Onto Ibiza tonight to meet up with Uncle Wayne
Frenkie, not Luuk
I agree but we knew this a few days ago.
It was reported yesterday that a total agreement was in place. It's in the tweet page, I posted then there.
We don't usually brief Orny, that's Arsenal besides, he is just echoing the piece by Whitwell hence his tagging of him. Whitwell is closer and the more likely to be briefed. Talk of the Devils podcast was recorded a few days ago and the talk about a full agreement being reached then.
The news is good but we are no wiser than we were yesterday.
I really thought this was going to be a straightforward one, the moment I herd ETH wanted him. I though the Antony one would be the one to drag on and on. It would be nice if he was in in time for either the Palace or (i guess more realistically) Villa game...
One note: if my employer owned me a stack of money, I'd be hiring a lawyer pretty damn quick. not sure why he hasn't
One note: if my employer owned me a stack of money, I'd be hiring a lawyer pretty damn quick. not sure why he hasn't
Yep, people for some reason think it's a waste of time 2 people in new senior roles at a football club develop strong face to face relationships with 2 of the biggest clubs in Europe....Was that actually happening?!
No they were too scared to back up the talk.
Good deal. Now all that remains is for United to pay half of deferred salary and the other half is forgiven by the player.
But there are already too many miracles to ask mateu Alemany.
But there are already too many miracles to ask mateu Alemany.
To be fair, thread title should mention we are waiting Frenkie to say yes. Non-regular thread muppets may be thinking this is signed sealed and delivered right now.
We've fecking earned this day, muppets. We stood strong. We fecking won.
Nope.
You said “Yes he did in an interview on Holland duty, when asked about joining Man Utd.”
And well, he didn’t say that, so you’re lying. Go watch the interview/press conference pal.
"You MUST end the legally binding contract we have with you."
I hope he signs but jesus Barcelona's arrogance knows no bounds.
SadCafe.Pathetic
not like we’ve scored any more goals since the fee has been agreed. i’m with you, walk away whilst we still can.
Yeah or you just pay him from the huge transfer kitty.
Someone needs to post the frenkie crying meme holding up the kit. Such a weird situation. I think his stance is he doesn’t want to leave because he wants his owed wages. Think this will be official tomorrow! Chooo chooo
There's a difference between not wanting to be at a club, and just wanting to make it work at a specific club. If it can't work at that club anymore (like seems to be the case with Barca), then there is nothing to suggest he wouldn't want to come here. If Barca had a future planned for him or the funds for him, he'd of course stay.
Di Maria didn't want to come to United, preferred PSG. He probably would've worked out fine if Van Gaal and him suited each other more.
Also - he is absolutely the best midfielder at Barca. Pedri is quality and up there, but is very young still. Also very different players. For Ten Hag, Frenkie is pretty much the perfect midfielder.
So where does this leave the Verbally deal? Is there room in the squad for both of them?
Do Barca get the money they wanted and we payed as always what the selling club said?
Barca Execs to Frenkie De Jong:
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