{"id":612734,"date":"2022-05-11T18:19:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T22:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=612734"},"modified":"2022-05-11T18:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T22:19:32","slug":"frenkie-de-jong-future-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/11\/frenkie-de-jong-future-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Update on Frenkie de Jong Future With Premier League Move Likely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a major Frenkie de Jong future update, it has emerged that Manchester United are close to securing his signature. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerardromero\/status\/1524492977317552129\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerard Romero<\/a>, a deal between United and Barcelona is \u201c95% done\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romero stated that de Jong will likely be sold due to Barcelona\u2019s financial situation. The Catalan club would receive between \u20ac70-\u20ac80 million for the Dutch midfielder.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Frenkie de Jong Future: Manchester United Move Likely<\/h2>\n<h3>Potential Reunion with Ten Hag<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Red Devils look set to sign the former Ajax player, who will reunite with his former boss Erik ten Hag at Old Trafford.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De Jong was a part of the side that reached the Champions League semi-finals in the 2018\/19 season. Barcelona signed the 24-year-old in 2019 for a fee of \u20ac90 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite an impressive first season at Camp Nou, De Jong has struggled for consistency this season. La Masia stars Pedri and Gavi have often started ahead of him in midfield.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Manchester United Rebuild Beginning To Take Place<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a disastrous season, United look set for another rebuild. With the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/07\/manchester-city-paul-pogba-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Paul Pogba<\/a>, Juan Mata, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/11\/newcastle-united-jesse-lingard-wage-demands\/\" target=\"_self\">Jesse Lingard<\/a> and Nemanja Mati\u0107 all leaving the club, the Manchester club will be keen to sign appropriate replacements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with De Jong, Erik ten Hag is said to be interested in bringing in Benfica forward <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/03\/05\/atletico-madrid-and-manchester-united-interested-in-darwin-nunez\/\" target=\"_self\">Darwin N\u00fa\u00f1ez<\/a> as well as RB Leipzig full-back <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/10\/european-clubs-interested-in-french-defender\/\" target=\"_self\">Nordi Mukiele<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also likely that Donny Van de Beek will be given a career revival at Old Trafford under Ten Hag after two seasons to forget with the club.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Frenkie De Jong Future Seemed to Be at Barcelona<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the rumours of a move to Bayern Munich, in March, De Jong spoke about how happy he was at Barcelona.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking to Dutch TV network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/news\/de-jong-would-sign-six-year-extension-to-stay-with-barcelona\/blt47265edb2a3ed318\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ziggo<\/a>, De Jong said: \u201cI love being in Barcelona.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I\u2019d probably sign a six-year contract extension if they\u2019d propose one to me, yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Something happening with FC Bayern? No, no. I am so happy at Barcelona.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I would love to play here for as long as possible.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a transfer that could simply be out of De Jong\u2019s hands, only time will tell. With Manchester City completing the signing of Erling Haaland this week, United will be keen to make a statement with a big signing of their own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"nrMMJOU_QoxaaQz9DNPZeQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1396524734\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'nrMMJOU_QoxaaQz9DNPZeQ',sig:'c7ka0lh9tyitndQzzLyEf57Lo9WpWEetxpO8NOSyq74=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1396524734',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major Frenkie de Jong future update, it has emerged that Manchester United are close to securing his signature. According to Gerard Romero, a deal between United and Barcelona is \u201c95% done\u201d. Romero stated that de Jong will likely be sold due to Barcelona\u2019s financial situation. The Catalan club would receive between \u20ac70-\u20ac80 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4123,"featured_media":612736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1365,18,3,7188,28],"tags":[1987],"class_list":["post-612734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-frenkie-de-jong"],"modified_by":"Jordan Hackett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}