Our options are now harakiri or seppuku. Just wait for another transfer window and hope for the best.

When stupid club meets naive manager chasing their own tail with no money it really takes a lot of time. Something like cheap fast good doesn’t exist.

Not that I’m obsessed with the slimy Barcelona but the registration window surely closes pretty late no? Like same as transfer window. So they have plenty of time to move their n-th financial lever and also commit a few more players to pay cuts while getting Mr De Jong his desired lucrative pay package.

Actually the ones who should be protesting are the rest of La Liga but ALL of them are actually fine with Barca doing whatever they want. I don’t see a problem where free economy of demand(frenkie’s incredible contract) vs supply (Barca’s limitless financial levers) meet and produce football.

Like everyone’s said season has already started. But I refuse to believe ETH is dumb enough to only have 1 name on his list. More like as usual we neither have money and skill to nego any deal hence now just scrapping at the bottom of the barrel.

Of course he can well be dumb (I don’t know him well after all), by then get no.1 also no use if manager is dumb.

Not sure what you mean by Ajax project? You mean Ajax alumni ?

Lisandro also from another team, and it makes no sense to target their first team now and end up with them 5 years later, they will pass their prime by then.

If he wants to train our youth the Ajax way, that I can understand but he needs to start from there. Meanwhile he can goyang from first team manager position for 6 years.

Murtough waste his salary 9 years salary, period.

Liverpool in any 1 transfer window (simply pick any since American owners come in) beat our 9 years under this waste of air.

Then we say Board of directors fault... - Well if we don't include SAF, actually who the heck are they other than Glazers la?

fact is, even with 200M in your hands, you are lucky if you get 1 world class player and a few risky ones. Normal luck is get 1 decent player and many duds. This is the market today. Not willing to pay, don't play. Or just quietly invest in training and scouting, hope for the best. We are neither here nor there to be honest. Ours is a combo of throwing some things and hoping some hits but everytime also counting the cost every time, like Scrooge McDuck. It is beyond obvious.

I’m ok with that. Salary sama aje. No pressure.

But the fans should reduce their attendance la. Better yet just empty la. I know I am not watching if Captain plays.
There is no better competitive job than one that your boss asks you not to compete. It’s the poor idiots who attend the match, expecting the best.

There is love underneath, no matter how you dislike your children or family you don’t want to profit from their failure lo…

What is the point of watching a sport that when you know one side has already given up? WWE would be a better watch.
Let them peram long long long in the shadows and then later come back with Ajax 2.0 when our kids or grandkids grow old enough and can forget this generation of crap. I already say, long time ago, letting the club go to division 1 is the best way to get rid of the Glazers. It is the same as hibernating or deep chill to kill a parasite in the body. Only we keep thinking nooo it shan't be so, but now how?
Get Frenkie also frankly not going to solve our deep problems la. I'm not sure you all agree with me or not. We got mcfred is 2 persons. koyak. We got Shawberto - Koyak. We got Maguire as CAPTAIN - no need to talk. Our RB, is same like no RB. An empty hole

No striker, lacking 1 winger. Scratch that - Just listen to RR.

And most frighteningly, we have ZERO promising youth in the pipeline!!! Can you imagine that? If you are not panicking yet, then I have a big metal bridge to sell to you.

dont need another one la, they are close to settle. Even if De Jong refuse to budge they can do this easily with reducing 5% of other players pay.

So, siapa bodoh in the chase for surplus (takut tersinggung with reject) mr De Jong?

Supposedly the one who is close brother with ETH, one phone call will settle it. Daily on the phone etc. haih. Not the first time we chase our own tail la. No shame one meh.

Think about it, Barca would rather sell their soul and their grandsons than tear up the contract and SELL us one of their surpluses. This makes it only their 974628th time not selling when they don’t want to and they have already stated this openly on the media. At least they are consistent. Again, syok sendiri MUFC fans interpret this as desperation, when actually we are the desperate ones.

From beginning to end we are the ones flying to Barca, calling and begging, drinking beer and end up with a few bills need to pay and no player on the dotted line. How many times does this need to happen la? A smart man will know not to court an uninterested lady more than twice. Here we have done it 50 times in a row.

End of the day, it’s just business. You go to Barca and stump a 130M check, I assure you mr De Jong will be on the bus / plane / train with wife and kids in tow. Just the matter of price. But here we wanna play high and mighty. McFred is high, ETH is migthy.

Memalukan. On and off the pitch. We drag our selves thru the dung, and come out like smiling fools.

a draft agreement, maybe. a contract - NO. a contract is a valid legal document that can be enforced by law with the consequences clear. such as you promise to pay, vendor promise to deliver, OR ELSE, something happens.

Had we had an agreed contract, it wouldn't sound like today - banging an empty gong and only got sound.

besides, other than journalists who need to make news to fill their rice bowl, we have not seen or heard any claim that a "contract" so it is actually fluff, not stuff.

the only one time in history that i can recall where we actually HAD a contract but not deliver the player will be Jon Obi Mikel, and remember we went to court and actually won something. IE legally enforced with consequences if not delivered. This is not it, and don't believe the rumours. else, again there is this bridge that i'm trying to sell.

The thing with agreements is that it ain’t enforceable and there is only small value if made between gentlemen.
Shall we say slimy people in Spain are not and while poor noobs from England are only good for their beer drinking.

Reminder that there was NO PROOF of any agreement, verbal or otherwise.

wow, i never knew we can plumb such low depths. I cant even bring myself to watch a 5 min highlight reel.

Shades of Ted Lasso in this comedy.

Whether we like it or not, lets get ourselves prepared for the relegation. One important thing to be ready for is a longer sloth in Div 1, so that we can loose the sponsors, lose the revenue and finally be rid of the Glazers.

Finally, it is not so difficult to rise. I vote we retain ETH to do this, I don't really care. As I say Ted Lasso also can, the pay needs to reduce significantly.