{"id":614856,"date":"2022-07-14T16:26:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614856"},"modified":"2022-07-14T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:27:29","slug":"manchester-united-frenkie-de-jong-transfer-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/14\/manchester-united-frenkie-de-jong-transfer-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United Reach Full Agreement With Barcelona for Dutch International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> have reached an \u20ac85million (around \u00a371 million) agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona<\/a> for Dutch international Frenkie de Jong, as per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fabrizioromano\/status\/1547518992499212288?s=21&amp;t=FVrtDEQADZIGFhDksuux8g\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Manchester United Reach Agreement With Barcelona for Dutch Superstar<\/h2>\n<h3>Red Devils Still Have Work To Do Complete De Jong Deal<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The initial fee will be around \u20ac75million, with add-ons taking it up to the \u20ac85million mark.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the remaining issue in the deal is that the 25-year-old would prefer to stay at the Spanish club, meaning personal terms are yet to be agreed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Manchester United have reached full agreement with Barcelona for Frenkie de Jong, after further talks. Package worth \u20ac85m. Fee guaranteed around \u20ac75m plus add-ons. \ud83d\udea8\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MUFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personal terms, still the issue to be resolved &#8211; as Frenkie\u2019s priority is to stay at Barcelona. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aTYnV3cHkP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/aTYnV3cHkP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1547518992499212288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De Jong\u2019s agents, Ali Dursun and Hasan Cetinkaya, reportedly informed Barcelona of the player\u2019s desire to stay this summer, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1547145809715658754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1547145809715658754%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinau.net%2Ffrenkie-de-jongs-agents-sends-strong-message-to-barcelona-report%2F\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed<\/a> that he had \u201cno intention to leave\u201d. An ongoing factor in the talks between De Jong\u2019s agents and the club\u2019s representatives is that a salary reduction will not be accepted on the player\u2019s side, whereas Barcelona would ideally reduce some players&#8217; wages in order to improve their financial situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talks between both parties have been regular since the start of the transfer window, with a reoccurring issue being that De Jong wants <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fabrizioromano\/status\/1531931394116665346?s=21&amp;t=FVrtDEQADZIGFhDksuux8g\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Champions League<\/a> football, which United cannot offer for the upcoming season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Ten Hag Could Provide Pull Factor for de Jong<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A more appealing element of the deal for the player will be the recent appointment of United\u2019s Head Coach Erik ten Hag, who coached De Jong throughout their time at Ajax. With the ongoing speculation surrounding the Red Devils and Ajax\u2019s Lisandro Martinez, as well as Donny Van de Beek eager to reach the levels he did in Amsterdam, familiar faces could be the defining factor in convincing the Dutchman to join his old teammates at Old Trafford for the 2022\/2023 season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De Jong would play a key role under Ten Hag and given United\u2019s current lack of creativity in the middle of the pitch, he would likely be one of the first names on the team sheet each week. He is already familiar with the coach\u2019s playing style and what he expects of his players, and so would be implemented straight away to be the squad\u2019s main playmaker, or play in front of the backline to maintain possession and create attacks from the back. Having been deployed in a number of positions in his career, De Jong is able to cover both attacking and defensive areas on the pitch if needed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Should the deal be completed in the coming days, De Jong will be the Reds\u2019 second signing of the summer, after the club announced the transfer of Dutch left-back Tyrell Malacia on July 5. Fabrizio Romano has also confirmed that 24-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fabrizioromano\/status\/1547320681599229955?s=21&amp;t=FVrtDEQADZIGFhDksuux8g\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lisandro Martinez is \u201cimminent\u201d<\/a>, whilst The Athletic reported that Danish midfielder<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/david_ornstein\/status\/1543913048586567680?s=21&amp;t=FVrtDEQADZIGFhDksuux8g\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Christian Eriksen<\/a> had verbally agreed a three-year deal with the club, pending a completed medical test.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United have reached an \u20ac85million (around \u00a371 million) agreement with Barcelona for Dutch international Frenkie de Jong, as per Fabrizio Romano. Manchester United Reach Agreement With Barcelona for Dutch Superstar Red Devils Still Have Work To Do Complete De Jong Deal The initial fee will be around \u20ac75million, with add-ons taking it up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4249,"featured_media":614875,"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":[18,1365],"tags":[9312,4315,9313,9239],"class_list":["post-614856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united","category-barcelona","tag-ali-dursun","tag-erik-ten-hag","tag-hasan-cetinkaya","tag-lisandro-martinez"],"modified_by":"Declan Wiseman, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614856","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\/4249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}