Casemiro is doing very well indeed at Man Utd, but what does that say about Frankie De Jong? Well bog all but…
Youth is wasted on De Jong
Mediawatch is more than aware that it is a broken record and very few people actually give a flying f*** what certain websites pretend is news but that is our job and you have clicked anyway, so here we go; the broken record is going on the turntable.
This – according to Mirror Football – is the biggest story in football on this Monday morning:
‘Erik ten Hag’s telling Casemiro comments send clear message to Frenkie de Jong’
You don’t need us to tell you that the succinct answer to this is ‘do they f***’.
This is what Erik ten Hag said about Casemiro:
“For me he’s brilliant. You can see why he’s won five Champions League trophies, at the top for that long in world football and you can see every match, every training and I think he will only be better and better and contribute more to the team.”
What has to be going through your head to read those quotes and think ‘that’s a clear message to Frankie de Jong’ or, more accurately, ‘I can pretend that is a clear message to Frankie de Jong because otherwise those quotes are pretty sh*t’.
Even by the very first paragraph, the intent has been downgraded. What was a ‘clear message’ becomes ‘what appears to be a subtle message’. At this point we should probably stop reading but we are in now…
We’re not here to point out that there are no such thing as ‘swaths’ and that ‘close-in’ does not have a hyphen – sub-editors are so last century – but pretending that Ten Hag is in any way talking about De Jong is just bollocks. As is the notion that De Jong is somehow having a mare at Barcelona.
‘Casemiro’s current fortunes are, ironically, the complete opposite to that of former United target De Jong.
‘The 25-year-old has fallen somewhat down the pecking order with Barcelona so far this season having started just nine out of a possible 17 matches in all competitions. His only goal came in a 4-0 thumping of Cadiz back in September.’
Quite why you would judge a defensive central midfielder on goals is unclear but we have to challenge that ‘pecking order’ nonsense; De Jong might have started nine of 17 games but crucially he has started the last five. He has bloody climbed the order.
Pecky fact: De Jong has played more minutes for Barcelona than Casemiro for Manchester United this season.
Another pesky fact: Barcelona…
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