Frenkie de Jong was Manchester United’s main transfer target last summer but a move didn’t materialise. So ahead of United’s Europa League clash with Barcelona on Thursday night, would they consider going back in for De Jong this summer? Andy Mitten, Carl Anka and Pol Ballus joined Mark Chapman to discuss…
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21 Comments
He's made it at Barca now. He won't leave.
I'm so fed up with this De Jong talks as a United fan!
Just stop obsessing over a player who has declared he doesn't wanna move
Barca has a propaganda media company that are made to slander or degrade the reputation of De Jong, they had fans attack him with lies/propaganda. Nasser also used this propaganda media machine for a lot of his players & opposition. I think when they did that, they did try to force him out.
let it go bruh….how many times the guy have to reject a club
Yet more evidence that murtagh is infact Woodward mkll
Howard Webb suspected Utd Fan
Appointed Referees Chief
Referee FA-VARs go Utd way
Coincidence,Corruption?π
United should not be desperate for any player that is not willing to join them. Surely de jong is not the only player that can do the job for ten hag.
We need quality players that the manager wants and also who want to be there themselves.
Let Hagtenburg cook.
Frenkie doesn't want Man United though
Ok, so if Frenkie wanted to leave Barca, why didnβt he leave then?
Of course we need him. Imagine if we signed De jong or Bellingham as our number 8 next to Casemiro. That & a striker like Osimhen or VlahoviΔ would make us serious title challengers.
How about talking about some signings that might actually happen
We NEED him
You see this united team and how they play then you can clearly understand why ten hag wanted de jong. He immediately makes the team better in terms of progression. Erisken is brilliant in terms of his passing and maybe even better than de jong in that regard but he can't carry the ball like de jong. De jong offers progression both through passing and dribbling.
If ETH wants De jong and if De jong wants to play for united, then united should sign him!!
Given how unlikely it seems that he'll leave Barcelona (he doesn't want to), I wonder if the recruitment team has alternatives that Erik would be comfortable with. I do think he should be the priority for that position but if not him, then who? Because Eriksen can't be the starter for that position going into next season if we truly want to compete for the league.
Bellingham or FDJ?
Bet ya didn't know that Andy Mitten and Graham Potter are half brothers.
I think Marcel Sabitzer is sufficient. He is more than a capable deputy for Casemiro. He is also better defensively than Frankie.
great vid. but why is Pochettino in Andy's office?