Frenkie De Jong, Manchester United and the money it would take for you to accept eternal misery – The Warm-Up
TUESDAY’S BIG STORIES Cash for tears Ad/> How much would someone need to pay you to be miserable? Not just a bit down in the dumps, but unfiltered, sweeping and endless despair? £1,000 a week? £10,000 a week? £100,000 a week? Transfers‘Doesn’t know the word pain’ – What Martinez could bring to Arsenal or Man Utd13 HOURS AGO That is the question at the heart of the Manchester United project right now. ‘Can we pay someone enough money that, even though they know they will be really, really unhappy, they say yes anyway?’ Up until now, the accepted terms for endless despair in the post-Sir Alex era have ranged from around £100,000 [the likes of Morgan Schneiderlin] to £480,000 a week [the likes, or like, of Cristiano Ronaldo]. And now a new name is considering trading their happiness for wads of cash: Frenkie De Jong.
