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Barcelona president Joan Laporta has reiterated that Manchester United goal Frenkie De Jong is not for sale.
Sky Sports Information was told very last 7 days that the clubs have a “wide agreement” on the charge – thought to be €65m (£56m) furthermore functionality-linked insert-ons.
Nonetheless, Laporta continues to be distinct in his general public information concerning the long run of the Dutch global.
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Dutch football journalist Marcel van der Kraan warns it would be witnessed as a ‘breakdown’ if Manchester United are unsuccessful to sign Erik ten Haag’s two primary transfer targets – Christian Eriksen and De Jong
Laporta reported: “[Frenkie De Jong] is a Barca participant. And unless we really feel the want or the interest to offer him we would not do it. Frenkie de Jong isn’t really for sale. We know he has features. And if at a specified minute we are fascinated in marketing him then we would imagine about it.
“But appropriate now we won’t provide him. Even extra, we are acquiring a further Franck. Franck Kessie.”
De Jong produced 46 appearances for Barcelona very last expression and has four decades remaining on his current contract at the Nou Camp.
The Dutchman performed under new United manager Erik 10 Hag at Ajax and was part of the squad that accomplished the Eredivisie and KNVB Cup double through the 2018/19 campaign, as properly as reaching the Champions League semi-finals.
Experiences previously this thirty day period prompt signing the 25-calendar year-aged was Ten Hag’s precedence in this summer’s transfer window, nevertheless development on the deal was sluggish.
His opportunity arrival at Previous Trafford is well timed, with Juan Mata, Nemanja Matic and Paul Pogba getting departed now this summer time, leaving the club shorter of solutions in the middle of the park.
How De Jong can help 10 Hag bring Ajax tactic to Man Utd
Barcelona’s Frenkie de Jong has a keep track of document of making use of the ball far better than Male Utd’s Scott McTominay and Fred
If Guy Utd are to participate in the “dominant, dictating” football Erik ten Hag wants, their midfield requires an improve. Frenkie de Jong could be a solution, writes Sky Sports’ Peter Smith.
The attractive midfielder does his ideal work from deep, stepping previous difficulties or threading a move by way of the strains to transfer his team up the pitch.
He seldom presents the ball absent. He had a 91 per cent passing price in La Liga very last time and, as very well as that metric, also eclipsed McTominay and Fred in stats measuring dribble achievements, contact excellent and how normally they are dispossessed.
De Jong may well not be the sole answer to United’s problems but he would deliver an update to their central midfield office and unlock a way of taking part in 10 Hag wants.
View from Spain: Barcelona can however take up De Jong reduction
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Spanish football skilled Alvaro Montero is assured Ten Hag will get his number a single transfer target for Manchester United: De Jong
Spanish soccer qualified Alvaro Montero instructed Sky Sporting activities:
“I do consider he will sooner or later be a part of United, but the main difficulty is the participant. De Jong wishes to remain at Barcelona but the club sees with new eyes the risk of providing him.
“They admit that undertaking so will provide in a large amount of funds, and on the lookout at the squad he is a person who can perhaps attract just one of the biggest expenses in the latest current market.
“De Jong is an incredible participant but if Barcelona provide him, it would be a excellent procedure. His benefit means they are taking the positives from a negative condition. If they were to have offered Ansu Fati, no one in the club nor the supporters would fully grasp it.
“Ansu Fati is the potential and they will not have a substitute. But the followers are comprehending of promoting De Jong as they’ve received Gavi, Pedri and Busquets. Were Marc-Andre ter Stegen in target or both Gerard Pique or Ronald Araujo to be offered, it would be quite unique as they do not have the exact depth in people regions.”
What must Manchester United do this summer time?
Sky Sports’ Jack Wilkinson:
“Where by do you begin?
“Restoring Manchester United back again to the lofty heights of yesteryear is a endeavor as well great to be finished in a one time, but the fanbase are well inside of their rights to need development to that ultimate target.
“The chances for newly-appointed manager Erik 10 Hag and CEO Richard Arnold to deliver just that are myriad.
“United can hardly be accused of failing to make investments on the pitch getting weighed out much more than £1billion on transfers in the past decade, but United rank between Europe’s worst in conditions of price for each individual pound put in.
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The Athletic’s Sam Lee breaks down the various duties new Manchester United supervisor 10 Hag have to finish with the club, indicating the Dutch coach has a ‘big work on his hands’ to turn them all over
“In their initial period together, Ten Hag and Arnold need to seize the possibility to devise a new transfer method, execute it correctly, and just take the very first techniques in the direction of re-creating the famed partnership which underpinned Sir Alex Ferguson and David Gill’s spell together.
“On the pitch, the fanbase yearn for a group of players they can relate to, a group of gamers they can spend in emotionally, irrespective of benefits.
“Players introduced to the club must comprehend the privilege of pulling on a Manchester United shirt and, crucially, have the ability to transfer that into performances on the pitch, although those people currently at the club will have to be established an ultimatum of demonstrating their being familiar with.
“Attain that, and United really should be able to reduce the crippling feeling of apathy from even further engulfing Aged Trafford, and the club will have taken its 1st move back again in the direction of the top rated table of English and European soccer.”
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