{"id":11618,"date":"2022-05-12T15:28:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T09:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=221157"},"modified":"2022-05-12T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T09:58:29","slug":"manchester-united-are-pondering-a-deal-for-frenkie-de-jong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/manchester-united-are-pondering-a-deal-for-frenkie-de-jong\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United are pondering a deal for Frenkie de Jong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Manchester United are eyeing a \u00a375 million deal for Bar\u00e7a midfielder Frenkie de Jong. After training De Jong at Ajax, future United boss Erik ten Hag has recognized him as a desirable prospect, United has addressed Barcelona regarding De Jong\u2019s likely release per Fabrizio Romano.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">De Jong has a term with Barcelona till 2026 after signing for \u00a365 million from Ajax in 2019, but again the growth of Pedri and Gavi in midfield has thrown a question on his status. De Jong\u2019s release could be necessary to assist finance additional recruits on the Catalan side, who have been struggling financially.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Six experienced men are scheduled to leave at the expiration of their agreements, thus the United team is likely to experience a big revamp in the summers. Pogba, Matic, Edinson Cavani, Juan Mata, Jesse Lingard, and Lee Grant are all free of contract at the end of the month, and interim coach Ralf Rangnick has indicated that United might require up to ten additional signings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During this campaign, the Barcelona star has been a constant in Spain, yet he may be ready for something new. De Jong joined Bar\u00e7a from Ajax in 2019 and inked a new six-year agreement in October 2020. A transfer to Man United might be enticing since he could reconcile with his old Ajax manager Erik ten Hag. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">De Jong will price the Red Devils anything between \u00a360 and \u00a370 million. Barca may relent, despite their reservations about retaining their midfielder for another campaign. De Jong\u2019s price could drop even more if he stays and has a disappointing season. Barca\u2019s financial condition may cause them to sell Frankie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In LaLiga, Frenkie has played 29 games and completed 45 outings throughout all categories.\u00a0<\/span>He has featured 138 times for Barcelona, although his greatest successes occurred when he was in Ajax. He assisted Ten Hag\u2019s side to the Champions League semi-finals in his farewell season in Amsterdam, ultimately succumbing to a drama versus Tottenham Hotspur. In that campaign, he also won both the Eredivisie and the KNVB Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Frenkie de Jong situation. There has been contact with Manchester United, yes \u2013 but sources say there's no full\/close agreement with Barcelona, as of today. \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MUFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bar\u00e7a financial situation could affect Frenkie's future \u2013 his priority is UCL football. Erik Ten Hag will push. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2eJHJ2XWGM\">pic.twitter.com\/2eJHJ2XWGM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1524657125905027072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik ten Hag, soon to be Man United boss has managed Frenkie de Jong at Ajax. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":34087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[661,2286,3257,238,2067,3311,249,2914,2906,280],"class_list":["post-11618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-fc","tag-erik-ten-hag","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-fcb","tag-frenkie-de-jong","tag-manchester-united","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-ralf-rangnick","tag-xavi"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}