{"id":1143898,"date":"2022-07-07T11:56:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T11:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/frenkie-de-jong-is-not-for-sale-barcelona-president\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T11:56:41","slug":"frenkie-de-jong-is-not-for-sale-barcelona-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/frenkie-de-jong-is-not-for-sale-barcelona-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Frenkie de Jong is not for sale &#8211; Barcelona president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/125806864_dejong-main-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"De Jong made 47 appearances for Barcelona last season\" title=\"De Jong made 47 appearances for Barcelona last season\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">De Jong made 47 appearances for Barcelona last season<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Barcelona have claimed that Frenkie de Jong is not for sale \u2013 even though Manchester United have a broad agreement in place to sign the midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Last week,\u00a0United agreed\u00a0a 65m euro (\u00a356m) fee, plus add-ons, with Barca for the Netherlands international and that deal remains active.<\/p>\n<p>But Barca president Joan Laporta said: \u201c[De Jong] is a Barca player and unless we have a need or interest in selling him, we don\u2019t want to sell him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Jong\u00a0joined from Ajax\u00a0in 2019 for a fee of \u00a365m plus \u00a39.5m in variables, and signed a five-year contract. However, Barcelona may now need to sell high-earning players to balance the books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BBC Sport understands an outline deal is in place with Premier League side United but progress towards completion has been slow.<\/p>\n<p>A move to the Red Devils would reunite De Jong with his former Ajax boss Erik ten Hag, who is taking charge in his first season at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Laporta added: \u201cWe know he [De Jong] has offers. If at some moment we were interested, we would consider it, but right now, we\u2019re not selling the player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"KZeX55pLXXE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV News (6-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KZeX55pLXXE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De Jong made 47 appearances for Barcelona last season Barcelona have claimed that Frenkie de Jong is not for sale \u2013 even though Manchester United have a broad agreement in place to sign the midfielder. Last week,\u00a0United agreed\u00a0a 65m euro (\u00a356m) fee, plus add-ons, with Barca for the Netherlands international and that deal remains active. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1143900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[656,2926,2927,275,5593],"class_list":["post-1143898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-frenkie","tag-jong","tag-president","tag-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143898","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=1143898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}