Barca are insane if they think we'll pay that much. Their club could go under if we don't buy De Jong.
Pay 60-65 else walk away
Frenkie de Jong | The last muppeting lap
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Pay 60-65 else walk away
I just can't see this happening so I can't get remotely excited for it at all. I'm a huge transfer muppet but I just can't get on board for this. De Jong does not sound fussed to leave at all. Even if Barca had to sell him, I can't see him not going to a CL club.
So if we offer 101M for them, they'll turn us down? Madness. No wonder they're a billion in debt.
I'm offering no context, just sharing the Tweet and feeding the muppetsYou do realise those photos were likely taken about 2-3 months ago
Yeah i got that mate, i just wanted to back you on it
Don't be silly. It clearly say 80 euros, minus 100m euros. They're just throwing money at us.
We're going to build a midfield and make Barcelona pay for it!
If he leaves Barca surely he will want to go to a champions league club. There are no guarantees that United will improve enough next year to make top 4 , big risk for him coming here. Typical United to chase him all summer then panic buy someone else last minute.
I’m sick of this already and the transfer window hasn’t even officially opened yet.
Another waste of time
Just sign him or dont, but get over it. Its been at least 3 weeks of "Ten Haag trying to convince him" "Barca dont want to sell it...but he can go for the right price" "Xavi is in love with him but knows the financial situation" "Barca is his dream club, he prefers a move to a UCL club"... its so fecking boring.
Time to see who blinks first. Bankruptcelona or us.
Bankruptcelona Brilliant!
I hope this dosent turn into a repeat of the fabregas saga and we end up panic signing James ward-prowse on deadline day because we spent all summer trying to make a deal happen that was never going to happen.
Yah same shit again and again.
His price just went up. Erik should do his best to convince Frenkie to come to United as soon as possible. His wage and his transfer fee will only increase with any delay.
Smells like BS to me. Essentially the whole thing is on pause while Frenkie is with the Netherlands so the journos have to write something. Why the heck would the price have gone up? Barca still need to sell - that hasn't changed. 80m euros will do it, I'm sure.
Agree with this. During international duty these transfers usually dont make much progress, unless its at the end of the window. Journos just have to write something, but theres no relevant new info. They just make shit up.
I agree you'll end up getting him around 80m euro's. Probably be a done deal within 2 weeks after international duty.
people just need to chill out with this transfer, it'll happen.. just sit back and relax.
We need to start leaking we are looking at alternative targets just to panic them
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This Wednesday the thing can be moved.
(Absolutely no context or indication he's talking about anything United related)
Unless a price has been agreed then we would not be allowed to talk to FDG…..so either we have or it’s bullshit that ETH has been trying to convince him to join!
Transfer market doesn’t open until this Friday anyway!
Transfer market doesn’t open until this Friday anyway!
Surely that can be about anything?
Yeah.
It’s probably about us. He loves teasing United fans.
If he actually had something I’m sure he’d just come out with it though.
Is this actually any closer to being done? Or is it just going to be one of them transfers that drag out all summer… bit like the sancho one and then we’ll decide to sign him next summer for the price they wanted this year.
We don't know.
There's been no progress in this transfer for a while. If Frenkie decides to join us, then that's when we'll see this progress.
Tapping up is illegal but common practice. You need to know whether the player is even willing to come to you before you put in a bid as it's a waste of time if not.
Also you can agree deals before the market opens.
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This has gone very quiet which makes me nervous. Really hope we get this one over the line as I think he would be our biggest signing in over a decade and would speed up the Ten Hag rebuild massively.
Im hoping this has gone quiet due to player being on international duty. I think they play their last game next Tuesday.
If we don’t have the deal done by end of next week I feel it’s not happening and we have to walk away
Im hoping this has gone quiet due to player being on international duty. I think they play their last game next Tuesday.
If we don’t have the deal done by end of next week I feel it’s not happening and we have to walk away
Who was that journalist out of interest?
I think he's referring to that original Gerard Romero report. Since then, the only real bits of news have been other journalists corroborating Romero and then Frenkie speaking out about his desire to stay at Barcelona.
Money is not the major issue as united is rich.
Frenkie needs to realise this is his last chance to land a major deal.
Frenkie needs to realise this is his last chance to land a major deal.
Not necessary for fee to be agreed before buying clubs allowed to talk with players legally. Because in some cases, it would also require players input to conclude the fee, term (buy back clause).
For example, Aubameyang transfer to Barcelona. Arsenal only paid a smaller portion of his remaining contract before releasing him. They had previously allowed Barcelona to talk with him when they tried to loan him. Because of his wage is too high and Barcelona couldn't afford the loan, Arsenal eventually agreed to terminate his contract so Aubameyang could join Barcelona on different term as free agent.
To allow buying club to discuss transfer with player means that seller club is open to sell the player. So there is hope if ETH indeed got permission to call FdJ.
Clubs talk to players and his agent before agreeing fee all the time, that's why after agreeing fee it hardly takes any time to sign complicated contracts.
The window you are talking about is registration window, clubs can agree time anytime of the year.
He would be an excellent addition to the the midfield, in that regard, yes, he could be transformative signing for the club (since we got only McFred in midfield), but he won't be a "Cantona" level transformative, he didn't achieve much with Barca, though it might be understandable why.
Barca paid around €75M for him in 2019, which is about £63M, so as per the tweet, they want €80M - €100M, which is expected in normal circumstances, like if they didn't want to sell him and the player wanted to leave, however, Barca is desperate and in a financial turmoil, United can take advantage of that and test Barca's resolve with an opening bid of €50M with some add-ons, and not go beyond €70M. (£60M).
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If Di Maria of all people to Barca ends up facilitating the De Jong transfer...
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