Barcelona and Manchester United have stepped up their negotiations in recent days and are close to reaching an agreement for the transfer of Frenkie de Jong
The latest offer made by the English club was 65 million euros plus additional variables. Barcelona, for their part, want to receive the money they paid Ajax for the transfer of the player which amounts to 75 million euros plus 11 million in variables
Manchester United are willing to reach 86 million in total, but it remains to be seen how the fixed sums and variable amounts will be distributed
The clubs aren’t far apart and an agreement could be reached in the next few days
But that will be just the first step of the deal. Then Manchester United have the task of convincing De Jong to leave Barcelona
United coach Erik ten Hag, for his part, has promised De Jong that he will be key to his new project in Manchester and that the team will revolve around him
The player likes the idea, but he is not convinced. He has always wanted to succeed at Barcelona and this is still something he wants to do
Barcelona will have to sit with the player and explain that the best thing for them is that he goes to the Premier League club
