{"id":615934,"date":"2022-08-08T06:42:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T10:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=615934"},"modified":"2022-08-08T06:42:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T10:42:49","slug":"frenkie-de-jong-future-xavi-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/08\/frenkie-de-jong-future-xavi-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Want Him to Stay&#8217; &#8211; Barcelona President Comments on Frenkie de Jong Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 7, Barcelona played Pumas in a Joan Gamper Trophy pre-season game. The 6-0 win wasn&#8217;t very newsworthy but what was headline-worthy were the comments from club manager Xavi Hernandez and president Joan Laporta on the future of Frenkie de Jong.<\/p>\n<p>Per Fabrizio Romano&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/caughtoffside.substack.com\/p\/the-daily-briefing-monday-8th-august\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">daily briefing for Caught Offside<\/a>, the manager was quoted as stating: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what will happen to Frenkie de Jong. Until August 31st anything can happen. He knows what I think and what the club want and need. Of course I&#8217;m counting on him, he&#8217;s a great player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Blaugrana president was more assured in his comments: &#8220;Frenkie\u2019s our player and we want him to stay at Barcelona, he wants to stay too. With him and his teammates, we have a very powerful midfield. He has offers, but we want him to stay&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Barcelona Leadership Comment on Frenkie de Jong Future<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Here we go &#8211; the latest EXCLUSIVE transfer news from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FabrizioRomano<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc40 Ronaldo benched vs Brighton &#8211; what happens next?<\/p>\n<p>\u231b When Werner to RB Leipzig will be announced<\/p>\n<p>\u2795 Plus Maddison, Diaby, and more!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CaughtOffside (@caughtoffside) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caughtoffside\/status\/1556527559306797061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>In-Demand<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/15\/manchester-united-pursuit-frenkie-de-jong\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United have been chasing<\/a> the Dutch midfielder for almost the entire summer transfer window, but recently Premier League rivals Chelsea have <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gGrASavLXQ4\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thrown their hat<\/a> into the ring and begun to show interest in the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/05\/barcelona-chelsea-marcos-alonso-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Fabrizio Romano: Chelsea Suffer Blow as Barcelona Close to Signing \u2018Incredible Player\u2019 and Bolster Squad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With two massive teams competing for the Dutch international&#8217;s signature, it is going to be difficult for Laporta&#8217;s desire to keep him to come to fruition.<\/p>\n<h3>Necessary Exit<\/h3>\n<p>As has been discussed for some time now Barcelona are in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/henryflynn\/2022\/07\/23\/economically-barcelona-is-living-on-another-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lot of debt<\/a> despite bringing in big-name players this off-season. Some concessions will have to be made and recouping some of the money spent is no doubt of importance to the higher-ups.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bar\u00e7a president Laporta on Frenkie de Jong: \u201cFrenkie\u2019s our player and we want him to stay at Barcelona, he wants to stay too\u201d. \ud83d\udea8\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FCB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith him and his teammates, we have a very powerful midfield. He has offers, but we want him to stay\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReshadRahman_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ReshadRahman_<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TZqllbKZFd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/TZqllbKZFd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1556331414991388672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/13\/raphinha%e2%80%90nears%e2%80%90fc%e2%80%90barcelona%e2%80%90transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona Agree \u00a349 Million Fee for Brazilian Winger Raphinha<\/a><\/p>\n<p>De Jong will likely command a big fee and getting his wages off the books would be a healthy boost for the five-time Champions League winners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 7, Barcelona played Pumas in a Joan Gamper Trophy pre-season game. The 6-0 win wasn&#8217;t very newsworthy but what was headline-worthy were the comments from club manager Xavi Hernandez and president Joan Laporta on the future of Frenkie de Jong. Per Fabrizio Romano&#8217;s daily briefing for Caught Offside, the manager was quoted as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":615949,"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":[6,1365,7188],"tags":[7335,1407,1987,4989],"class_list":["post-615934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-liga","category-barcelona","category-rumours","tag-barcelona-transfers","tag-chelsea-transfers","tag-frenkie-de-jong","tag-manchester-united-transfers"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615934","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}