{"id":21792,"date":"2022-06-23T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/23\/value-of-man-uniteds-improved-de-jong-bid-revealed\/"},"modified":"2022-06-23T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:00:29","slug":"value-of-man-uniteds-improved-de-jong-bid-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/23\/value-of-man-uniteds-improved-de-jong-bid-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Value of Man United\u2019s improved de Jong bid revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Word stemming from the Spanish media on Thursday suggests that Manchester United have tabled an improved offer for Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong.<\/p>\n<p>Recent weeks have of course seen reports linking Dutch international de Jong with an Old Trafford switch move up a notch.<\/p>\n<p>With the former Ajax standout widely understood to have been identified as the no.1 target to reinforce United\u2019s ranks in the middle of the park ahead of next season, talks were officially kicked into gear between the Premier League giants and Barcelona over a potential deal this day last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Manchester United have formally opened talks to sign Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JBurtTelegraph?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JBurtTelegraph<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RwV6VG91Lg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/RwV6VG91Lg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeleFootball\/status\/1535284693784047618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Such negotiations came amid the widespread understanding that de Jong had given his blessing to a move to Manchester, where he would of course link up with the man who oversaw the finest form of his career to date \u2013 Erik ten Hag.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, to this point, little has been reported when it comes to steps forward in United\u2019s pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>A fresh insight into the situation, in turn, has been provided on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The info comes courtesy of Luis F Rojo of Spanish outlet Marca, who points towards the powers that be at Old Trafford tabling an improved bid for the club\u2019s no.1 summer target.<\/p>\n<p>As widely reported elsewhere, the Red Devils\u2019 opening proposal to Barca is understood to have come in around the \u20ac60 million mark, followed by a series of add-ons for a potential total of \u20ac80 million.<\/p>\n<p>The board at the latter, though, made clear that a more considerable up-front payment would be required to kickstart negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, United have returned with precisely that. As per the aforementioned Luis Rojo, a new offer worth \u20ac65 million plus \u20ac20 million in bonuses has arrived in the Catalan capital.<\/p>\n<p>It remains short, though, of the Blaugrana\u2019s alleged asking price.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mufc<\/a> initially offered \u20ac60m plus \u20ac20m in variables for Frenkie de Jong and have improved their proposal offering \u20ac65m fixed in recent contacts \u2013 but Barcelona want a minimum of \u20ac75m. [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Luis_F_Rojo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Luis_F_Rojo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@marca<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Utd District (@UtdDistrict) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UtdDistrict\/status\/1539938012141801472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 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\/top-stories\/barcelona-table-opening-offer-for-robert-lewandowski\/\">Barcelona table opening offer for Robert Lewandowski<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/wolves-ruben-neves-price-tag-revealed-amid-man-united-links\/\">Wolves\u2019 Ruben Neves price-tag revealed amid Man United links<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Word stemming from the Spanish media on Thursday suggests that Manchester United have tabled an improved offer for Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong. Recent weeks have of course seen reports linking Dutch international de Jong with an Old Trafford switch move up a notch. With the former Ajax standout widely understood to have been [&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-21792","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\/21792","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=21792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}