{"id":19352,"date":"2022-05-27T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/05\/27\/watch-man-united-fans-use-barcelona-friendly-to-call-frenkie-de-jong-to-old-trafford\/"},"modified":"2022-05-27T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:00:52","slug":"watch-man-united-fans-use-barcelona-friendly-to-call-frenkie-de-jong-to-old-trafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/05\/27\/watch-man-united-fans-use-barcelona-friendly-to-call-frenkie-de-jong-to-old-trafford\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Man United fans use Barcelona friendly to call Frenkie de Jong to Old Trafford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A small section of fans in attendance at FC Barcelona\u2019s latest outing made use of the opportunity to send a message to midfielder Frenkie de Jong.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch international de Jong, of course, has been hotly tipped for a Camp Nou departure.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his unquestionable talents, and boss Xavi Hernandez\u2019s persistent assurance that the former Ajax man remains central to his plans, the board in the Catalan capital are understood to be taking into serious consideration de Jong\u2019s sale.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, to this point, one club and one club only have been pushed in the media as the midfield maestro\u2019s most likely landing spot.<\/p>\n<p>The outfit in question? Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Owing to the imminent departures of all of Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard, Nemanja Matic and Juan Mata, the Red Devils are expected to be in the market for fresh blood in the middle of the park throughout the upcoming summer.<\/p>\n<p>And de Jong is one such player understood to sit towards the top of the wishlist at Old Trafford, where he would of course be in line for a reunion with former manager Erik ten Hag.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1709985\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1709985\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1709985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240215285-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Watch: Man United fans use Barcelona friendly to call Frenkie de Jong to Old Trafford\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240215285-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240215285-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240215285-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240215285-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240215285-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240215285-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240215285-910x607.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1709985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BARCELONA, SPAIN \u2013 APRIL 24: Frenkie de Jong during the La Liga Santander match between FC Barcelona and Rayo Vallecano at the Camp Nou on April 24, 2022 in Barcelona Spain (Photo by David S. Bustamante\/Soccrates\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\u2018Waiting for you\u2026\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>And, as alluded to above, amid their side\u2019s ongoing links to de Jong, one small section of the Man United faithful, this week, made use of the chance to send a crystal clear message in the direction of the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>For those not aware, Barcelona were in action on Thursday night, after making the trip to Australia for a friendly meeting with the A-League All Stars.<\/p>\n<p>The Blaugrana ultimately emerged on the right side of a 3-2 scoreline, owing to goals on the part of Ousmane Dembele, Adama Traore and Ansu Fati.<\/p>\n<p>Post-match, though, it was the aforementioned de Jong who took centre stage, as calls for the Dutchman to swap Catalunya for Manchester arrived by way of the crowd, amid the assurance that \u2018ten Hag is waiting for you\u2019:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cTen Hag is waiting for you\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mufc<\/a> fans shouting a clear message to De Jong ??<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9S5rnP3umP\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/9S5rnP3umP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UtdXclusive (@UtdXclusive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UtdXclusive\/status\/1529939722239459328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/i-had-it-all-agreed-sadio-mane-reveals-that-he-nearly-signed-for-manchester-united-before-liverpool-switch\/\">\u2018I had it all agreed\u2019 Sadio Mane reveals that he nearly signed for Manchester United before Liverpool switch<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/real-madrid-2021-22-road-to-the-champions-league-final\/\">Real Madrid 2021\/22 road to the Champions League final<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A small section of fans in attendance at FC Barcelona\u2019s latest outing made use of the opportunity to send a message to midfielder Frenkie de Jong. Dutch international de Jong, of course, has been hotly tipped for a Camp Nou departure. Despite his unquestionable talents, and boss Xavi Hernandez\u2019s persistent assurance that the former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-19352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}