21 - Frenkie de Jong

ZenI

Professor Balthazar
Injured foot or no foot, he's always played scared.

Right up there with griezman, dembele, coutinho et al
As one of the worst signings
Like you said, one of the worst but not top 3 or 5ish. Dude is not terrible, always plays just alright - even prime Rakitic was much better, actually even post-prime Rakitic was better and scored a screamer from time to time and defended better. Crazy to think we gave all those players you mentioned over 20M a year :lol:
 

jamrock

Senior Member
Minus the "even" in the prime rakitic being better than him.

He was significantly better than him.
 

Barcaman

Administrator
Staff member
Everyone who is unable to give 100% or seems unmotivated should be on exit door. Includes ter Stegen too. Not to mention the wages.

Ferran is shit and earns too much too but he, at least, seems to be fighting hard.

I am curious what happens next with de Jong because Flick has options now. He probably already detected the issue with Frenkie. Will he act on it swiftly or keep giving him playing time ahead of Gavi.

We'll see
 

ZenI

Professor Balthazar
Everyone who is unable to give 100% or seems unmotivated should be on exit door. Includes ter Stegen too. Not to mention the wages.

Ferran is shit and earns too much too but he, at least, seems to be fighting hard.

I am curious what happens next with de Jong because Flick has options now. He probably already detected the issue with Frenkie. Will he act on it swiftly or keep giving him playing time ahead of Gavi.

We'll see
It might be time to start pushing Frenkie out of Barca already now. Tell him what's up... we're selling him next summer if he gets offers above 10M from one of the "big" clubs like Inter, United, City, Arsenal, Pool', Bayern, Milan, Juve.
But tbh, I don't see any of them go for him - he's simply not that good. Getting paid 25M from Barca has probably made him delusional, he thinks he's better than he really is. That's why I have been saying he really needs to check himself before he breaks himself - let his agent shop around and he will probably return empty handed.
It might end up them begging us for a new contract worth like half he's on now. Ten Hag was maybe his last hope...
 

Ter Stature

Active member
Manure would have paid 70 million for this fraud, maybe more.
It's the same players always not performing and "fans" are defending them and also want to sign more bums for $$$.
 

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
Reijnders is the player everyone thought Frenkie would be, sadly.

One thing is the underwhelming performances, but the attitude and lack of fight is unforgivable.
 

Messi983

Senior Member
The cnut is not even doing a little gesture of good faith like lenglet did. Renew and Spreading the salary for more years. Lenglet didn't have to because he is not even wanted at barca.. dejong holds the captain armband and don't do shit to help. The entitlement of the amigos without 20% of what the amigos actually achieved wih the team.

Am, he already did that when was needed. Now it's not anymore.
 

TheStig

Member
This Frenkie saga lasts for years, we had Lenglet and Umitit cases before and many people still don't get that you can't sell a player if he doesn't want to leave. :slap: Every few day you find users who write "we should/will sell Frenkie this summer", looks like some people never learn.
 

Joan

Well-known member
This Frenkie saga lasts for years, we had Lenglet and Umitit cases before and many people still don't get that you can't sell a player if he doesn't want to leave. :slap:
Was it really the same? Neither of them refused to leave there were just no offers in their pay range. Neither did they wait for their contract to expire as Frenkie likely does.
 

Co0ter

Senior Member
This Frenkie saga lasts for years, we had Lenglet and Umitit cases before and many people still don't get that you can't sell a player if he doesn't want to leave. :slap: Every few day you find users who write "we should/will sell Frenkie this summer", looks like some people never learn.
Nah it's because the club doesn't have balls for these situations. Napoli showed what needs to be done with Osihmen. He worked something out real quick when he realized he was going to be in the stands. Frenkie isn't a bum, he wants to play. If you tell him he won't even be in the stands next season he'll work something out real quick. If more teams start doing this, you'll start seeing less players leaving on frees.
 

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