Too late now to look for alternatives.
We simply have to cough up the extra to get this over the line.
We simply have to cough up the extra to get this over the line.
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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We should reduce the amount we offer by €1m/day until Barca sort themselves out. They are by all accounts spending about £150m+ this summer. They ain't doing that without the sale of Frenkie.
No it isn’t?! The window doesn’t shut until September. Early deals are desirable but not necessary, especially as we are out on tour.
Also the deal is agreed between clubs, no extra is necessary.
Neves is crap and Wolves will not sell him for less than we are paying for De Jong regardless of how much he wants to leave.
He’s just not a reasonable option.
Based on the stellar financial state they are currently in?
They can spend what they want.
I agree (kinda). That’s why I said as well but not instead. I believe Frenkie will be a United player soon enough.
Explain why they need to sell De Jong to fund other transfers? They don't because it's not the case.
Wages are the problem, not actual cash. They have another cash injection of €350 Million incoming in the next week or two.
This reads like a positive piece….I mean spending all summer trying to get FdJ to end up with Ruben Neves is a fecking meme. If we can’t get a deal done by the time the season starts then what are we doing? That would be almost 3 months waiting for FdJ.
Barca can do things in the transfer market other clubs can only dream* about.
*It’s a nightmare
the transfer window doesn't close till September the 1st so potentially we have time, ideally, all the deals would have been completed by now though
If we are preparing bids for players for months then we might run out of time or end up spending much on deadline day.
Should be easy enough for them to write Frenkie a cheque.
Slow news day eh?
Barca will be happy to learn their propaganda is working.
Agreed, no one playing at the level we should be playing at, City, Liverpool, Chelsea, etc, are being linked with or are interested in Neves, because he's at the level he's meant to be at, he wouldn't cut it at that level. We need to pursue FDJ at all costs because this is a player all our competitors would want and we have no business signing him but somehow are in the mix. And somehow getting players at that level, will help us return, signing Neves will keep us competing with Arsenal.
Yes
Such an outcome would be on par for the course. And Neves is average so he checks that box as well.
went through my twitter feed in about 45 seconds this morning, and 30 of that was play by play from the match.
We may get an alternative. But not someone who fits the requirements the manager wants. So the money saved will really be end up in us having to strengthen again later.
Cost? Our rebuild being put back another season.
This is a case study in how to make poor business decisions.
A reflection of how the club has been run all these years.
No one has actually defined the structure of his wages. As I said yesterday, scenario 2 makes more sense. Barcelona would not have the cojones to try to force him out if they were actually owing him payments.
You know that suckah bouncing so hard it’s going interplanetary!
That's key. He could absolutely scotch the transfer if he made it clear he had no intention of coming. The way the Spanish media hawk the story around is to infer ( without any dialogue with the player ) that he is adamant that he wouldn't demean himself with a transfer to lowly Man Utd.
You’re talking about Barca, right?!
He's done the right thing, just like Martinez (when it wasn't clear whether United or Arsenal would win the race) by not committing himself to anything. He's just stepped back from it and let the clubs sort things out.
No, we just need fat Lap to realize they can’t use their shiny new signings until he pays off FDJ
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Hahaha, so that's basically building up to Xavi saying I don't want you in my squad
I get what you’re saying and it’s definitely a different situation, but the bottom line is he doesn’t want to come to United, or any other club, and is effectively being forced to. That isn’t great.
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That's that then.
There we go then, it's gone from he's not for sale at all, to we need to sell him. Who didn't see that coming
Love how they say completely different things right after another.
I’m sorry, so far all you’ve told me I know nothing 3 times and it’s you banging your head against a brick wall? Maybe you should stop it seems to be causing some damage my mate
Definitely not going. Why say anything otherwise.
We need him, we rely on him, we love him. Also we dont need to sell him, but actually we do have to sell him.
Isn't Alemany supposed to be the guy that's driving all of their financial rebuild?
It’s like a fecking good cop bad cop routine with these bellends
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