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If Touchameni is not being pursed and Declan Rice is too hard perhaps De Jong could fit the bill. At age 25 and reasonably injury free he would fit in well to Chelseas box to box midfielder group I am thinking. Arguably a potential captain as well although I don't really know that.

Just a random thought seeing as how there is talk about Barca moving him on.

 
Mate he played centre back for A**x. Leaving aside his height and physicality you could argue he is exactly the ball playing centre back we need to replace Silva. Personally I think De Jong and Kounde and some big fast lad on the left would do ok. We would have a Barcelona defence a la Puyol era. Anyhow I probably have no clue.

 
Would be quite happy if we could sign him. I wonder how much Barca would be looking for though. 

Along the same lines De Ligt would be a cracking signing as well but Juve may want a huge figure. Perhaps a Jorgi plus cash deal may work.

 
Have a feeling he'll join United and reunite with Ten Hag.

 
ozboy said:
Mate he played centre back for A**x. Leaving aside his height and physicality you could argue he is exactly the ball playing centre back we need to replace Silva. Personally I think De Jong and Kounde and some big fast lad on the left would do ok. We would have a Barcelona defence a la Puyol era. Anyhow I probably have no clue.
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You are mixing up De Ligt (CB) with De Jong (MF). 

dansubrosa said:
I’d love him but didn’t he flop at Barcelona?
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No he didn’t. He just gets moved around to accommodate their Spanish talents; Pedri & Gavi.

For me if they are really skint, we should be offering them money for Pedri, Gavi, Araujo in that order before considering De Jong. Knowing Tuchel he’d rather have Dest 🤦‍♂️ 

 
if we are sticking with 343 he would be a great option in the pivot, but if we revert to 433,i think we need more of a dm.

Really like him though.

 
ducavis said:
You are mixing up De Ligt (CB) with De Jong (MF). 

No he didn’t. He just gets moved around to accommodate their Spanish talents; Pedri & Gavi.

For me if they are really skint, we should be offering them money for Pedri, Gavi, Araujo in that order before considering De Jong. Knowing Tuchel he’d rather have Dest 🤦‍♂️ 
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He did play centre back at times for A**x too. 

 
Given Barcelona's situation (also reports Jorignho is now likely off) we should be all over it. 

We would still need to prioritise a DM however. 

 
ducavis said:
You are mixing up De Ligt (CB) with De Jong (MF). 

No he didn’t. He just gets moved around to accommodate their Spanish talents; Pedri & Gavi.

For me if they are really skint, we should be offering them money for Pedri, Gavi, Araujo in that order before considering De Jong. Knowing Tuchel he’d rather have Dest 🤦‍♂️ 
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No I am not. See Wikipedia "Aged 20, he made 26 appearances for the first team. Primarily he featured as a center-back, in a back four, alongside national teammate Matthijs de Ligt due to the departure of Davinson Sanchez. He also played in a three-man center-midfield. "
 

And this is what I recall anyway. Memory is a funny thing.

 
Sconnie Blue said:
Given Barcelona's situation (also reports Jorignho is now likely off) we should be all over it. 

We would still need to prioritise a DM however. 
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He is a DM/DLP. Part of the reason he hasn't consistently hit his best at Barca is because he hasn't played there a lot (due to Busquets still hogging the minutes).

 
Should try to steal him from Man United. He's a good talent just couldn't make it in Barcelona which has been the story of many good talents.

 
I feel like speed and defensively he would be an upgrade over Jorginho in the pivot role, and he's probably just as good technically.

Barcelona never used him properly, he is a deep lying midfielder through and through.  

 
Barcelona still owe him 17m in back wages and apparently that is complicating the deal with United. I am sure Barcelona are trying to write this off into any deal as they are broke.

 
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