It does some weeks, the FC Barcelona achieved to close officially the signing of Frenkie of Jong, but was not easy. Paris Saint-Germain tightened a lot to convince to the midfield player of the Ajax, since it was of the like of Thomas Tuchel and tried until the last moment to do with his services.
Nevertheless, the petrodólares were not sufficient this time to carry to one of the most promising midfield players of Europe. According to the informations published by Sportive World, Paris Saint-Germain called several times exasperated to Of Jong when it was about to to sign with the culés to promise him a blank cheque.
In fact, while Josep Maria Bartomeu, president of the FC Barcelona, Òscar Grau, CEO of the club, and Pep Safe, manager general of the football culé, reviewed the agreements beside members of the sportive direction of the Ajax, went in seven pertinent calls of Paris to treat to change of course a signing that had almost closed in the previous days.
During the previous weeks to the traspaso, the FC Barcelona treated to put on of the table all his best arguments to convince to the international Dutch. With the clear-cut economic conditions in the offer of the culés from did months, the arms of the Catalan entity in the last summit by Of Jong were the sportive reasons, that finish him convincing.
From the Camp Nou tried that Of Jong saw that play in the Camp Nou was a much more attractive option for the future of the player that do it in Paris Saint-Germain. "In the PSG, every year can have a distinct team and in the Barça the club is above the team", would have said the directors culés to Of Jong according to Sportive World, with regard to the constant changes of project of the Frenchmen.
Paris Saint-Germain, touched
The FC Barcelona asestó a hard hit to Paris Saint-Germain with the strategic signing of Of Jong. With the imborrable memory of it sucedido with Neymar in 2017, in which the French club convinced to the Brazilian to hit of talonario, feared by an alike situation with the Dutch. Fortunately, for Of Jong the illusion weighed more than the notes, doing see in Paris that the money is not it everything.