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Which sides?
Summer Transfer Window 22/23
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Caporegime
Even if Erikson did go to United it would just show the merc he is and we do not need players like that. Brentford gave him a lifeline to restart his career when no one else would touch him. He owes them that. If he did a U turn and go to United it would be the kind of player attitude wise that we just do not need.
Caporegime
Don't be ridiculous that wouldn't make him a merc. Christ Adam you're getting more and more nonsensical as time goes on.
Caporegime
Whatever but I wouldn't want any player at a club that has no loyalty and mercs have no loyalty. They do the job for the money!
haha what? What do you go to work for?
You mean like 99% of professional footballers?
Caporegime
and he doubled down on it
How on earth can you call Eriksen a mercenary?
I suspect we're offering more than Brentford, a mercenary would be here in a heartbeat, more money to be made in general too due to the size of club.
The fact he's thinking about the offers and weighing up what he wants to do seems perfectly reasonable to me. Even more so considering his heart problem, he's not even allowed to play professional football in Italy.
I suspect we're offering more than Brentford, a mercenary would be here in a heartbeat, more money to be made in general too due to the size of club.
The fact he's thinking about the offers and weighing up what he wants to do seems perfectly reasonable to me. Even more so considering his heart problem, he's not even allowed to play professional football in Italy.
Caporegime
I reckon that less than 10% of foreign players in the Premier League actually want to play in England. They don't come here for the weather or the culture and plenty of them would be on the first plane out if Barca/RM came knocking.
Apparently Bernado Silva would happily go to Barca from City despite City being a country mile ahead of Barca at the moment. I imagine that the families of most european players are constantly in their ear about moving somewhere nicer.
FdJ would be more than happy to stay in Barca but I imagine he will come to the UK if needs be and I don't get the impression hes the sort of player to throw his toys out of the pram.
Apparently Bernado Silva would happily go to Barca from City despite City being a country mile ahead of Barca at the moment. I imagine that the families of most european players are constantly in their ear about moving somewhere nicer.
FdJ would be more than happy to stay in Barca but I imagine he will come to the UK if needs be and I don't get the impression hes the sort of player to throw his toys out of the pram.
The Echo says we've made contact with Leeds over Raphinha
Consigliere
Man Utd have offered £75m + Harry Maguire for Frankie De Jong. Barcelona have said they will take £75m only...
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So I passed on this joke...surely the Daily Mail hasn't actually jumped on it from BenchWarmers?
Manchester United 'reject Barcelona's attempt to sign Harry Maguire'
United are progressing in discussions over a deal for de Jong and Barcelona attempted to sign Maguire as part of the deal for the Dutchman but new United boss Erik ten Hag wants to keep the centre-back.
It’s bad enough losing out to Spurs or Chelsea, but losing out to Newcastle would be completely unacceptable
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Its been picked up by a few of the rags as actual gossip.So I passed on this joke...surely the Daily Mail hasn't actually jumped on it from BenchWarmers?
Manchester United 'reject Barcelona's attempt to sign Harry Maguire'
United are progressing in discussions over a deal for de Jong and Barcelona attempted to sign Maguire as part of the deal for the Dutchman but new United boss Erik ten Hag wants to keep the centre-back.www.dailymail.co.uk
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Its been picked up by a few of the rags as actual gossip.
Amazing.
I mean, I am unsure if Barca actually need another CB but who knows. Maybe someone out there does actually believe he is perfect for their system. He worked for Leicester in theirs.
I wouldnt worry about it, theres more chance of me signing for Newcastle than there is of Raphinha signing for Newcastle
Does mean he gets to stay in London where he lived for many years when at Spurs. He might even have kept the house and moved back in! He really was the main man at Brentford and was almost singlehandedly responsible for their uptick in form and results after he joined. I’d imagine he will end up being the highest paid player at Brentford if he stays but may still be on 1/4-1/3 of what he could get elsewhere.
No he wasn't. It made a great story for everyone to lazily assume that.
He arrived at the same point a number of our key players returned. Probably the main impact on our results was Raya returning in goal after four months out, but also Ajer recovering from his injury and Toney getting back to form post-covid were key. Eriksen was instrumental in us doing well the latter third of the season, but he was one of a number of such players.
Apparently he's quite taken with living in Richmond, and there's a load of other Danish families around the area given that about 98% of our employees are Danish!
Him staying solves a problem in midfield for us and allows us to direct our meagre transfer budget towards other targets - hopefully better targets given we're a more attractive team to play for if we can recruit the likes of Eriksen instead of him joining much larger teams.
I’ve put Raphinha out of my mind now. He doesn’t want anywhere but Barca apparently, and the De Jong deal will allow Barca to put a decent bid in.
We should be concentrating on a midfielder.
We should be concentrating on a midfielder.
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Also can't pick up Kurupt FM in Manchester which is heavily influencing his decision.