COnsidering how bad off they are, if we are interested, I hope we just offer them £1. They want him off their wage bill, so screw them. Don't give them any money.

42 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

If I've learnt anything from this window is Romero is pretty bang on when it comes to Barca news so it'll be interesting to see how this plays out

Only if we offer at the very least 40m I think.

45 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

If I've learnt anything from this window is Romero is pretty bang on when it comes to Barca news so it'll be interesting to see how this plays out

He is but he might be trying to help Barca sell him too.

its taking very long for de jong to belong to the club with many gongs

4 minutes ago, sonic90 said:

its taking very long for de jong to belong to the club with many gongs

He's sick of levers like us all

There's no point negotiating with Barca.

We need to turn De Jongs head.  Offer him 400K a week.  Make him only want us.  Promise him everything.

Then offer Barca 15m on the deadline they need to sell him to register their signings.

33 minutes ago, HazardousChoice said:

There's no point negotiating with Barca.

We need to turn De Jongs head.  Offer him 400K a week.  Make him only want us.  Promise him everything.

Then offer Barca 15m on the deadline they need to sell him to register their signings.

That's exactly how I would play it apart from the 400k/wk.

They’re all having a meltdown on redcafe, it’s f**king hilarious. They’ve all turned in to sports journalists and experts in tomfoolery by the looks of it; apparently it’s all a big PLOY. Funny as f**k. I don’t dislike Man United because above all, they’ve been a massive part of my childhood (even if they were the bad guys at one point); however, can’t help but find it funny that they have a thread on a forum over 1000 pages long belonging to a fcuking rumour… Only for him to end up at Barca or join Chelsea.

Let's just sign him for 40m, no regrets just do it let's go

38 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

Let's just sign him for 40m, no regrets just do it let's go

What we should do is go ahead with the de Jong deal but then insist the Gavi is included. Offer them 70m for the two. See if they take the bait as it will sort their finances out. If they don't take the deal tough.

Let's not forget these players don't want to leave there anyway so if it doesn't work out, it's no big loss.

7 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if de Jong bottles out of coming to England and takes a reduced wage so they squeeze their registrations in. If we are prepared to go in as hard there are plenty of other clubs that need the cash without them and the players pi$$ balling us about

Is Spain really that weaker a league? Results in Europe of recent years suggest not.

13 minutes ago, Argo said:

Is Spain really that weaker a league? Results in Europe of recent years suggest not.

Week in week out definitely.  The reason that they go deep into European competition is surely due to the lack of intensity in their domestic league. 

That Gerard bloke and a few Barca sources seem to think a deal of 70mill euros plus Alonso is well in the works.

2 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

That Gerard bloke and a few Barca sources seem to think a deal of 70mill euros plus Alonso is well in the works.

That's a poor deal by us if so. When you have their balls in your hands you have to squeeze. The longer this goes then surely we can get him for less

1 minute ago, WhiteWall said:

That's a poor deal by us if so. When you have their balls in your hands you have to squeeze. The longer this goes then surely we can get him for less

Yeah you would think. It sounds like Todd is done messing about though, he could have gone for weeks negotiating for Cucurella but had that sorted quickly. Even Raphinha and Kounde deals were agreed with their clubs quickly.

 

Of course most of us would enjoy putting the squeeze on Barca, maybe TT really wants De Jong and we don't want to risk a magic lever from Barca or him deciding to go to United.

2 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Yeah you would think. It sounds like Todd is done messing about though, he could have gone for weeks negotiating for Cucurella but had that sorted quickly. Even Raphinha and Kounde deals were agreed with their clubs quickly.

 

Of course most of us would enjoy putting the squeeze on Barca, maybe TT really wants De Jong and we don't want to risk a magic lever from Barca or him deciding to go to United.

Point well made. Can see Auba being done as well tbh

5 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Point well made. Can see Auba being done as well tbh

Yeah maybe. This window us and Barca are so intertwined with each other there could be more deals between us.

I mean they need our help, or someone's help but seems we may be willing to give it, but how well will we use the situation to our advantage?

2 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Yeah maybe. This window us and Barca are so intertwined with each other there could be more deals between us.

I mean they need our help, or someone's help but seems we may be willing to give it, but how well will we use the situation to our advantage?

That's my Gavi call  😄

37 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

That's a poor deal by us if so. When you have their balls in your hands you have to squeeze. The longer this goes then surely we can get him for less

And now Azpi has signed for 2 years all of a sudden he's worth £20 million, and apparently they are still over budget to about 175 million, some cutting of cloth accordingly to register their new recruits...

41 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Week in week out definitely.  The reason that they go deep into European competition is surely due to the lack of intensity in their domestic league. 

Actually I think if anything that would go against them in Europe if that was the case. In theory you're well rested but in reality it's next to impossible to coast domestically then dive straight into a do or die match at full sharpness.

For example I firmly believe us being in a top four race compared to City having the league wrapped up early helped us enormously in Porto, we had competitive matches (and another cup final) right up until the end whereas they were effectively playing friendlies for a month before the big game.

Furthermore the narrative of La Liga being reasonanly weak started due to Barca and Real wracking up ridiculous point totals which is exactly what City and Liverpool have been doing here in recent years.

 

According to Spanish publication Sport, De Jong’s exit is not essential as ‘economic levers’ have been activated and the club will be able to register all new signings.

ECONOMIC LEVERS. lol

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Who'd have thought. Bent as f**king all of them. We should only be trying to sign players that want to be here anyway.

4 hours ago, TheCeleryKing said:

 

According to Spanish publication Sport, De Jong’s exit is not essential as ‘economic levers’ have been activated and the club will be able to register all new signings.

ECONOMIC LEVERS. lol

So predictable. Barcelona always has some loophole to solve their problems. That league is all sorts of corrupt.

4 hours ago, TheCeleryKing said:

 

According to Spanish publication Sport, De Jong’s exit is not essential as ‘economic levers’ have been activated and the club will be able to register all new signings.

ECONOMIC LEVERS. lol

The real magic was levers all along

BARCA: "We need some money, somebody pull one of the levers!!!" 😂