An uproar broke out during Barcelona\u2019s team presentation.<\/p>\n
Frenkie de Jong was greeted at Camp Nou by his own fans with applause, but also with plenty of whistles. That is according to the Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo.<\/p>\n
The frustration among supporters appears to centre above all on the Dutchman’s injury and how the treatment that followed has been handled. De Jong suffered a ligament injury while representing the Netherlands at the World Cup in North America, although the full extent of the problem only became clear later.<\/p>\n
De Jong rejects accusations – and hits out at journalists<\/p>\n
Reports claiming the 29-year-old was stubbornly refusing an operation on his injury, and instead preferred a conservative course of treatment, seem to have sparked the real anger. De Jong himself firmly rejected that portrayal and specifically criticised the reporting of Spanish journalist Gerard Romero.<\/p>\n
“I notice that many things are being said that are not true.” He was doing everything he could “to return as quickly as possible and in good condition”, he made clear.<\/p>\n
With the injury still troubling him, de Jong is expected to be unavailable to Barcelona for several more months. At least the Catalans have signed prominent cover in central midfield: Rodri, a newly crowned world champion and currently perhaps the best midfielder in the world, recently joined head coach Hansi Flick’s team.<\/p>\n
Barcelona recently made the signing of the Spaniard official and are paying Manchester City 76.5 million euros for him. Rodri signed a contract until 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An uproar broke out during Barcelona\u2019s team presentation. Frenkie de Jong was greeted at Camp Nou by his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,1583,85],"class_list":["post-73668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-f-de-jong","tag-laliga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}