{"id":1136413,"date":"2022-06-28T13:20:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/28\/frenkie-de-jong-manchester-united-nearing-agreement-on-56m-deal-for-barcelona-midfielder\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:20:39","slug":"frenkie-de-jong-manchester-united-nearing-agreement-on-56m-deal-for-barcelona-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/28\/frenkie-de-jong-manchester-united-nearing-agreement-on-56m-deal-for-barcelona-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Frenkie de Jong: Manchester United Nearing Agreement On \u00a356m deal For Barcelona Midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Barcelona signed De Jong from Ajax in 2019 for \u00a365m plus add-ons and extended his contract the following year, tying him to the club until 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United have reached a broad agreement over a 65m euro (\u00a356m) fee, plus add-ons, with Barcelona for the Netherlands midfielder Frenkie de Jong.<\/p>\n<p>However, club sources say the deal is not done and there are still significant issues to work through.<\/p>\n<p>But the development is seen as positive in terms of the transfer eventually reaching a conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old is new United manager Erik ten Hag\u2019s number one summer transfer target.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag led training for the first time on Monday with his non-international players.<\/p>\n<p>United are still to make any signings this summer as they await a response from Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen, 30, who also has an offer on the table from Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>They are also looking at other positions but signing De Jong is viewed as a priority.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag and his players are due to leave for a pre-season tour of Thailand and Australia on 8 July.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, the De Jong deal would be completed by then, although there is no deadline being put on the transfer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona signed De Jong from Ajax in 2019 for \u00a365m plus add-ons and extended his contract the following year, tying him to the club until 2026. Manchester United have reached a broad agreement over a 65m euro (\u00a356m) fee, plus add-ons, with Barcelona for the Netherlands midfielder Frenkie de Jong. However, club sources say the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1136415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[19169,3449,656,807,2926,2927,1762,5054,19170,2822],"class_list":["post-1136413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-56m","tag-agreement","tag-barcelona","tag-deal","tag-frenkie","tag-jong","tag-manchester","tag-midfielder","tag-nearing","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}