Maybe so, but I reckon they’ll try and get rid of some of the paste and semi-precious stones and keep the gems like him. If he did become available, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Bayern Munich became an interested party as well.Barca are in financial crisis
Asking everyone every summer to lower their wages.
Just in case he was available, we should be ready for that moment
We signed Rodri that summer. Hypothetical, I know, but I’m not sure we’d have been quite as successful as we have been if we’d signed de Jong that summer.We won’t touch him after he fucked us over last time.
We signed Rodri that summer. Hypothetical, I know, but I’m not sure we’d have been quite as successful as we have been if we’d signed de Jong that summer.
We won’t touch him after he fucked us over last time.
The same was said when Laporte rejected us the first time.We won’t touch him after he fucked us over last time.
"Barca are in financial crisis"Barca are in financial crisis
Asking everyone every summer to lower their wages.
Just in case he was available, we should be ready for that moment
"Barca are in financial crisis"
Amazing that a club in "crisis" can raise 1.3 billion Euros for a stadium rebuild if they are in "crisis"!
Barcelona are fucked because of the rules of LaLiga, rules that are killing a once great league.
Barca are still a huge club, that's my point.Without coming across like a **** here - they play in La Liga so regardless of funding a €1.3b stadium, they still (seem to) need to conform to La Liga and their financial rules. Which they can’t seem to do.
They got rid of their best ever player, they’ve had to demote one of the best La Masia products in years to the youth setup because they can’t afford to offer him a contract and they’ve been bargain hunting (Alonso, they wanted Azpilicueta, Auba, Depay) for a few years aside from last Summer which was an obvious ploy of ‘we’re not fucked, honestly!’
They won’t get rid of FDJ, shame really, but apparently his wages are extortionate and they were flying him to Manchester themselves in the Summer to the rags. So a man can dream.
Slight difference, Laporte signed an contract extension with a buy out clause he didn’t sign for Barcafuckinglona after agreeing to join us and even pick out a property in leafy CheshireThe same was said when Laporte rejected us the first time.
The same was said when Laporte rejected us the first time.
The amount Barca were paying him I don't blame him one bit, he would be a fool to turn that down.Wasn’t the same. Laporte elected not to move at the time. DeJong told us he was coming and went elsewhere.
The same was said when Laporte rejected us the first time.
"Barca are in financial crisis"
Amazing that a club in "crisis" can raise 1.3 billion Euros for a stadium rebuild if they are in "crisis"!
Barcelona are fucked because of the rules of LaLiga, rules that are killing a once great league.
"Barca are in financial crisis"
Amazing that a club in "crisis" can raise 1.3 billion Euros for a stadium rebuild if they are in "crisis"!
Barcelona are fucked because of the rules of LaLiga, rules that are killing a once great league.
Surprised we’re not having another sniff at this guy as part of the Gundogan deal?
If he’s going, then Gundogan is leaving on a free, so there Is no deal to be had. De Jong is settled in Barcelona and unlikely to leave for either us or for that lot. He’ll be 27 next May and still contracted through ‘26, so we should consider him a ‘schip’ that has sailed.Surprised we’re not having another sniff at this guy as part of the Gundogan deal?
Remember watching an interview with him when he was breaking through at Ajax and he admitted that he preferred Real Madrid to Barcelona, but when it came time to move, the lure of Barcelona and Messi was greater.There was no Gundogan deal. His contract runs out in a week's time.
But yeah I'd throw the kitchen sink at them for de Jong. Problem is they're his dream club and he's come off the back of a brilliant season. He's vital to them.