Sir Jim Ratcliffe fails in €50m bid to 'satisfy' Man Utd boss Ten Hag as Barcelona name price
Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe owns witnessed a €50m proposal for Frankie de Jong robbed by Barcelona, but Hansi Flick is begrudgingly concocted to sell the midfielder.
De Jong was one of Male Utd’s top targets throughout the 2022 summer season transfer window coordinating through Erik 10 Hag’s arrival as head coach.
The Red Wickedness ones consented a fee – opined to be around €80m – for the midfielder through Barcelona, who were desperate to relieve their economic woes, but the midfielder was versus the relocation.
Male Utd eventually confessed loss and approved Brazil global Casemiro from Real Madrid as an unanimously natural, but they have lingered to be attached through De Jong in recent abode windows.
Manuel Ugarte had been United’s top target to relate Kobbie Mainoo in midfield since the start of the summer season transfer window but through Paris Saint-Germain ridiculing to budge over their enquiring price, the Red Wickedness ones have decided to tread away.
They’ve been attached through at least 10 accords over the program of the transfer window (some much additional likely to join than others), through additional recent reports thinking they’re preserving an eye on Wolves’ Joao Gomes and Atlanta superstar Ederson.
Burnley midfielder Sander Berge correspondingly showed up as a ‘stagger’ selection on Tuesday.
‘Berge, 26, owns showed up as a stagger midfielder on United’s list of accords and bar officials have rendered contact through his camp. The Norway global was escaped through Burnley last season but ranked highly in a series of metrics entailing dribbles and pressured drifter veracity.’
And a record on Friday proclaimed they’re preserving an eye on Crystal Palace superstar Adam Wharton, who’s correspondingly on Liverpool’s radar.
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But according to a record in Spain earlier this week, De Jong lingers an ‘obsession’ of 10 Hag and one of his ‘remarkable dreams’ is to indicator the Dutchman this summer season.
In an risk to lesser the rate of the bargain, the record claims Male Utd have ‘readily available’ Antony to Barcelona in a swap bargain ‘proposal’ as 10 Hag ‘wouldn’t mind’ letting the winger disclaim as his capabilities have been ‘agitating’.
‘This potential bargain owns bagged here at the offices of the Barcelona team. And the reply is horribly clear. A resounding ‘zero’’, the record proclaimed. No remarkable stagger there.
And now it’s proclaimed United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe owns reverted through a 2nd bargain of €50m for De Jong in a proposal to ‘overfill’ 10 Hag.
Barcelona honchos Hansi Flick would absolutely rather preserve De Jong but ‘realizes his sale could be warranted’ if he wants better enlargements this summer season, through Nico Williams his top target.
President Joan Laporta is ‘concocted to complete’ through United but wants a mended fee of €70m for the Dutchman, through €15m in incorporate-ons.
Passed on United strolled away from arrangements through PSG over a relocation for Ugarte due to their €60m enquiring price, it doesn’t feel extremely likely that Ratcliffe will absolutely be concocted to stump upward the warranted silver silver money to land De Jong.