The end of Frenkie de Jong at Barça seems closer and closer. As announced this Wednesday night by the media outlet Jijantes, through the journalist Gerard Romero, his transfer to Manchester United is 95% closed, he will report between 70 and 80 million euros for Barçaand could be closed even before the end of the League. The news confirms the information advanced by AS on May 2 in which it was stressed that the club’s staff had made the decision to part with the Dutchman and incorporate Carlos Soler, with whom there is already a verbal agreement. Also with Valencia, who would agree to transfer him for around 20 million euros.
The sale of Frenkie de Jong does not respond to strictly sporting matters but to an economic need. The former Ajax player is the most important asset in the squad and Ten Hag’s presence at United is the perfect spark that has allowed the negotiation to accelerate. If Barça is able to enter 70 million, it will amortize the signing of Frenkie de Jong. And not only that. He will be freed from a contract of 11 million net, which will reduce the salary pressure a lot.
Frenkie de Jong’s departure sparks debate. Many consider that the Dutchman arrived at Barça in 2019 to mark an era and that, three seasons later, it is not the time to sell him because Frenkie should be one of the players on whom to build the future. Others, more materialistic, consider that De Jong has already had time in three years to throw himself on top of the team and carry the banner of renewal. And that he has not been able. Xavi watches the operation from the outside. The coach has publicly praised the midfielder, but internally he has also raised doubts about Frenkie de Jong’s leadership. The coach has always had Carlos Soler in his head and will leave room for maneuver for the club. If Soler arrives instead of Frenkie de Jong, he will be satisfied.
Frenkie de Jongwho had recently bought another house in Barcelona and who had shown his desire to follow many years of Barça, the team he had always admired since childhood and whom chose ahead of the money from PSG or City, he begins to assume that his history at Barça may end in half and that his great dream, unanimously succeeding as a Barça player, can never be fulfilled. The footballer, signed by Josep Maria Bartomeu, did not like it at all that Laporta and Mateu Alemany have put it in the shop window and have decided to try to sell it in any way to deal with an economic situation that they have even put more to the limit with the depreciation of players from last summer. Now, tied hand and foot, they seek to save themselves with the sale of De Jong.
The City also follows him
Manchester United is not the only team that closely follows the Barcelona midfielder. According to Rob Dawson, ESPN correspondent in Manchester, City also has his name on the table for next summer. It would be another great reinforcement for Pep Guardiola’s team, now that Haaland has just been closed. The trick with which they would play from the Etihad is that they will play the Champions League next season.