Frenkie de Jong

[Legal Alien]

With what scousers paid for Nunes I think they would pay top dollar for the top transfers they want. Allison and Virgil for example too.

We'll see, but they haven't got any of the Coutinho money left to fall back on, plus even if he agreed to a pay cut he'd still want big wages.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I think we offered what we thought was a fair £55m - £60m with £200k pw in wages, but Barça came in late & offered £65m to Ajax & £400k pw in wages to the player.

Like Sanchez, Cucurella, Pogba, Maguire, Fred & others before & since, we stuck to our valuation & personal terms & walked away when the auction started.

It could be a case of, if FDJ wanted to leave Ajax that summer, the Barça deal was the only one agreed with both the clubs involved & the player.

If a deal was agreed with City but FDJ preferred Barça when they made a late offer, would City go back in for him if it was the player who scuppered the deal?

We have gone back before, so don't see that being an issue.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Why are we not chasing this transfer mate especially with the silva situation as it makes do much sense ?

I suspect it's the only deal City might accept at this late stage, if it is indeed on the table between now and the window closing.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

If a deal was agreed with City but FDJ preferred Barça when they made a late offer, would City go back in for him if it was the player who scuppered the deal?

Why not?

He would have been a fool to walk away from a deal that would make him financial secure for this life and the next and Barca were still a decent team at the time.

We are make errors in life, poor decisions but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I don't see what the issue would be if we went back for him, wages apart.

Alexis Sanchez used us at Udinese to get a move to Barcelona.

We went back twice more after.

Didn't Laporte also have a rethink, but after a broken leg?

 

[LesBleuMiserable]

We'll see, but they haven't got any of the Coutinho money left to fall back on, plus even if he agreed to a pay cut he'd still want big wages.

Don’t fall for that there will always be Coutinho money even after football is no more! It’s net spend forever FC!

 

[FromPollockToSilva]

Alexis Sanchez used us at Udinese to get a move to Barcelona.

We went back twice more after.

Didn't Laporte also have a rethink, but after a broken leg?

I feel like Laporte's situation (deciding to stay and rehabilitate at his current club and signing a contract that gave Bilbao a bigger release fee for his eventual move) was slightly different to a player using us to get more money moving to a different club

 

[Dribble]

We have gone back before, so don't see that being an issue.

Weren't most of those instances more to do with the clubs not agreeing a fee, rather than the player turning us down for what he believed was a better rival offer?

 

[TonyM]

No chance of us just getting FDJ for mega bucks and keeping Bernardo till next season?

 

[Woody135]

I cant see a world where we would expect to take arguably Barcas best player and then ask him to take a paycut.
He loves being there and hes paid a shed-load for the privilege.
If he was willing to take the paycut hed just do it and stay.
This is just all a non-starter.

 

[richards30]

I cant see a world where we would expect to take arguably Barcas best player and then ask him to take a paycut.
He loves being there and hes paid a shed-load for the privilege.
If he was willing to take the paycut hed just do it and stay.
This is just all a non-starter.

isnt the whole wages thing wrong? or arent the wages over here shown after tax and the european clubs before tax?