The De Jong case falls into the mud
The situation
The Frenkie de Jong case begins to sink into the mud. Barcelona, who already decided at the beginning of May that the Dutchman was the big sale they would make to square their salary structure in the 2021-22 squad, is beginning to increase the levels of pressure on the player to the point that, this Thursday, knowing that the midfielder does not want to move from Barcelona , he has brought out all the machinery. After Mundo Deportivo reported that if De Jong does not leave, he will not be able to register players like Kessie or Christensen, threatening to leave him on the ground and not get him on the plane to tour the United States. This has been reported this Thursday afternoon by Sport , which also insists that the club has demanded that he accept Manchester United’s offer and leave. Barcelona is moving all its media machinery to push the player out of the club. Frenkie de Jong has transmitted to those closest to him that no one from Barcelona has officially asked him to lower his salary (the sine qua non condition for him to continue according to Laporta) and that his intention is to continue as a Barcelona player . Of course, the pressure levels are increasing at times and it is difficult to think that the Dutchman can maintain his position of strength.
The details
Landed in Barcelona in the summer of 2019 as Barcelona’s symbol of a new time and a new decade, the former Ajax player mainstay halfway. At the moment, the matter is reaching the basements that the footballer never wants. The leak of his payroll, which according to sources ranges between 11 and 20 million net next season, threatens to leave him out of a trip to play with the Barcelona shirt and, therefore, do his job, which is to play football. Toni Freixa, former candidate for the presidency of Barcelona in the last elections, harshly criticized the media movements of the Barcelona club’s board of directors through social networks. “Oh, that the signings depend on a media campaign against Frenkie de Jong so that he leaves despite having a contract and having shown that he loves the club,” he criticized.