Thoughts and prayers.
Yes I've been saying that recently, it rarely happens for us. However we said the same about massive name / marquee signings then Ed brought in Mata, Falcao, Sweinsteiger, Di Maria, Zlatan and Pogba. Let's hope he has simply shifted his focus away from this and towards the young potential superstar catalogue.
This will sound strange, but I think Ole can be a good selling point. A young manager which looks to give a proper chance to his players and won't bench them after a mistake or two. Of course, Pep or Klopp have an upper hand, especially as Klopp already has Van Dijk to partner him. But, I don't see such advantage when we compare Ole with Allegri for example. Money is always a good selling point. If he moves this summer, CL might be important also.
Pure wishful thinking. Expecting Mirror to pick something based on this thread pretty soon though.
Rojo wears 16. He changed his number before the season started i think.
The latter. Most reports suggest Barcelona is his preferred destination, with Juventus the other front runner.
Don’t worry we will miss out on him.
Is Raiola his agent or someone else? I'm sure I've read his agent to be other than Raiola, could be wrong..
All reports indicate that it's Raiola. Also allegedly Barca and Real Madrid are reluctant to do any business with that fat little slimeball.
Between us and Juve?
I doubt they will care if its a top talent. They really wanted Pogba when he fell out with jose.
Juve probably in top position for him considering all the connections Raiola has at Juve starting with his lifelong client Nedved. They can offer easy trophies and a starter spot to De Ligt, but the question is would they be willing to pay the money asked.
Reports indicate they do in fact care about that quite a bit.
I know dude, and its sad.
One of the Dutch posters here said a while ago that Raiola is just negotiating this deal for De Ligt. That once De Ligt changes clubs his normal agent takes over again.
No brain regardless of the fee, yes. However, we're down in the pecking order of destinations at the moment. 5 terrible years does that sort of damage.
I agree we've are having some rough times yeah, but we will be back and I'm sure De Ligt seeing our young core of player might think the same. Not sure, maybe the fan in me is too optimistic.
I did'nt know that, thanks, i don't think he's appeared for us wearing it has he ?
Ya realistically City and Liverpool won't be in for him unless they see him as a huge talent worth going for.
Well if Woodward wants to back his chit chat and mouthing off about how we are able to do things in the market that other dream of, and how we are the greatest club in the World, we need a 300m spend in the summer window. I mean look at City, they quietly splash 250m year after year while having a superior team than us. Splashing 200m on Sancho and de Ligt this summer would be the best possible business we could make. On top of that we need a RB and a CDM/CM.
His agent is 'Barry Hulshoff' according to what I've just read.
I might have missed something but what deal is Raiola negotiating? To Barca?
Barry Hulshoff, quite the character. Had some great years as a player at Ajax, won a few European Cups with them. Came to Belgium afterwards, I think he played for at least 5-6 teams here.
I'm not sure about that. For a player of his age its between us and Barcelona as the biggest clubs he watched growing up. His current defensive partner and his club CEO are ex players, and his coach in the youth teams was Jaap Stam. We should be right up there, especially as we're one of the most in form teams in Europe right now.
Okay, I'm sold already. Let's go for him and don't spend the summer chasing Koulibaly?
Emmm! PL yes. Europe? Let's see
Loved him in Knightrider and BaywatchBarry Hulshoff, quite the character. Had some great years as a player at Ajax, won a few European Cups with them. Came to Belgium afterwards, I think he played for at least 5-6 teams here.
Since Ole took over:
I wouldnt dismiss Juve, big club and trophies guaranteed.
Biggest talent in years. Bigger than Frenkie. In fact, i can't really remember a talent who i was so sure of to succeed in the absolute top. I think i have to go back to the Sneijder/Robben days for that. Frenkie went for 86mio euro's. Matthijs won't go for less than that i guess. But that all depends of which deep pocket clubs want him. If there are a few, i won't be surprised if he goes for over 100mio euro's (which -i believe- is still going to look like a bargain in a few years).
