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He’s not that good anyway. Murphy put most of them on a plate.

That's not really a surprise, he's already been capped for Sweden, mate.

He’s a number 10 until he’s an 11

Selling Isak and replacing him with Wissa would be like pulling out of a supermodel halfway through and finishing yourself off in the bathroom. It's fine, but it's not the same.

And now it’s injured.

And, conversely, if he goes to the red dippers then he really has shown what a cunt cunt he is.

I'd do exactly what toonpack said earlier. I'd tell his agent to find him a club abroad. if in the meantime he spends 12 months sulking in the reserves so be it. under no circumstances should he he allowed to join them cunts, we weren't a million mile behind them last year, we trounced them at wembley,, were by far the better team in the 3-3 at home, but for fucks sake we wouldn't even deserve to be in the same league as them if we were to further strengthen them by selling them our best player on top of what they've already bought. we've allowed the cunts to come in and take some fucking cracking players from us in my lifetime seemingly at will. this would he the worst. time it stopped.

How would you feel about me using the word "meltdown" to describe your day?

Well at least we can rest easy knowing that Isak won't be going to Liverpool

remember just over a week ago when we were buzzing about signing ekitike to play alongside isak?

This is the important bit. If we sell to Bayen, Barce or Madrid, that's fine. Then we look like every other top PL team. Sell our squad players to other PL teams, that's fine. However, should we sell our prize assets to Liverpool or Man City or whomever we're confirming that we're not a challenge to them. If Barcelona pull a lever and offer us £150m for Isak, so be it. But Liverpool can fuck off.

If he does go to Liverpool I personally wish him the absolute worst. Hope the cunt drives a Lamborghini round a bend in Spain.

And if I have to give my opinion, take the money and run. I don't want anyone who doesn't want to be on my team. Isak is a magnificent player, but we can also have new magnificent players. And, besides, he's a player who gets injured too often. That's right. I'm not going to sell him off. Do you think you're very good? So good that you shouldn't play for Newcastle, who are going to play in the Champions League? Do you think your potential lies in going to Liverpool and trying to win it all? Fine, but then they're going to have to pay £130-£140 million. And with that money, I'm going to find a new star forward (Sesko would be a perfect fit). Osimhen also seems like a good option. And I'm also going to try to bring in a competitive player on loan with an option to buy, who's really hungry because he's very good but has had a few bad years (Darwin Nuñez, Gabriel Jesús).

One other thing about how we’re handling it badly: Isak isn't included in Asia squad and the club say it’s because of thigh injury. Barely an hour later Isak’s team says no, he wants to look at other option. So we’re not even in control of the fucking message.

No doubt agent initiated to force either a move or a huge pay bump. This might be unpopular, but he is capable of being amongst the absolute best strikers in the world, but he's also capable of looking ineffectual and this can last for a while. That streakiness might leave his game or it might stick around. It also might be due to his propensity for injuries. If he is sold we've seen that at the moment we're not really capable of bringing in his level of developed player. We need to bring them in earlier and hope that Howe can help them develop. It's going to be tough going into the Champion's League with wholly new forward options on the back of little or no time in preseason. This will drag on as well, far from ideal.

We have £120m until we have £121m. Obviously.

Meh. Seen it all before tbh. Disappointing but I’m not really that arsed in the scheme of things. I have loved watching the success and the cup win was incredible but I barely feel more connected to the club as a consumer, I mean fan, than I did in the Ashley years.

Hello from some old friends at Old Trafford 😘

Still, at least we have the GK, CB and CM issues all sorted out.

watching the smilies with some interest here. I mean I already had a good idea who were the most morally bankrupt on the forum, this is only confirming it.

I think Isak might leave.

None of us know anything about where his head is at, or what his fitness is like.

DCL is warming up his signing hand right about now.

Don't worry. The Basque press usually reports fairly concisely on Real Sociedad's transactions. They pocketed 10% of the capital gain. That is, 10% of the difference between the future purchase and the previous sale. So, if we sell Isak for around 130 million euros, Real Sociedad would only receive around 6 million euros.

Good, £200m for the inflated Southern price tbh. It might be too hot for him down there though.

I represent several artists as an agent and can confirm, we are all cunts.

If he wants to go sell him to al hilal for £150m plus sell on fee, let him know he can fuck off from Saudi no questions asked when he gets bored after a year and we'll cash in again.

If he goes, he goes. We need to show we're going about this in the right way, though. How we handle it will show how fucked we are at the club level. 1. We should not sell to a domestic rival. 2. If we have to, it should be for a fee approaching 150m or higher. 3. If it isn't, it should be cash up front. Absolutely no part-exchange deals. The buying club should have to suffer the PSR implications, we shouldn't help bail them out. 4. We should have 2 replacements in for him before letting him go, so we don't get fully put over a barrel by the selling clubs. Sesko is my pick; Wissa will do nicely as a Wilson replacement. If it's to Liverpool for 100m or something pathetic like that, we'll know for certain we are not heading in the direction we were led to believe.

Same. Waddle, Pedro, Gazza, Andy Cole, Andy Carroll etc The world still spins and we’ll reinvest. its sad because we thought this was a new dawn with moneybag owners but PSR has absolutely kicked the ladder away from us reaching the top quickly.

Penny pinching while the Ferrari gets nicked.

I don't think any of us thought that we'd get Isak staying for the rest of his career, but for this to happen a good way into a transfer window that has been a long way from being a success so far, has seen us without any upper management and has seen most possible replacements already move, is a massive kick in the cunt.

Didn't he sing that 'thong' song?

At least we all have massive cocks on Cyberpunk, eh lads?

my morals are in the gutter mate. have been for decades.

IF we were to sanction a sale of isak to the dippers after first meekly giving up on ekitike as a replacement to the cunts as well.then as far as I'm concerned it'd be far worse than anything ashley did player wise during his 14 years at the club.

Yes. But for the foreseeable future and certainly for the next few weeks, he is the DoF & CEO, fuck it, he may as well be. It is a situation he should've never found himself in again. But most of all and to make things worse, to the point I was making, now he's on the other side of the world to where everything gets done. It's a lot of work in England to be the club's everything man. It's virtually (that word again ) impossible on the opposite side of the world. My main gripe, was: when is he supposed to sleep? It is just one more way our pre-season/transfer season is being disrupted with a coach/manager/DoF who is undoubtedly going to be burning the candle at both ends. He's not the batman!, Andrew, HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THAT?

However this works out but the club should really get their act together to put setup together suiting a professional club and start acting accordingly. It’s another season we go into with bad vibes hanging over the club and damaging our preseason.

We can offer 10m under a player's value instead of 20m under. It's a game changer.

This is bound to have an unsettling impact on the rest of the squad btw. What a fucking mess.

This is very true. It'll either light a fire under the ownership or cause them to lose interest. Eales needs to go immediately btw. I know he's ill, but he's presided over a fucking shitshow.

This whole debacle has been pathetically managed by the club hierarchy from start to finish. If the PIF needed a wake up call, then here it is.

If Liverpool don’t put up at least £150m* they can fuck off. I’d rather see him rot in the reserves than bow to them if there’s more to this than the official line *edit - and pay it all upfront

no mate. tell them to fuck off, tell them to fuck off again, then tell them to fuck off and die. if parish can do it last summer then so the fuck can we.

My FiL finished with an excellent joke and I don't remember anything else about the entire speech. He had us (and all the other couples in the room) face each other and take each others hands, look into one anothers eyes. "...through thick and thin, always remember that statistically, you're now looking at the person most likely to murder you"

I can't really blame the lad tbf. There's more money and more trophies elsewhere and he's basically one of the best strikers in the world. Gutted though, I hate the situation and the ridiculous financial rules that are completely fucking our chances of ever competing.

Good job we are really efficient at scouting and signing players. Give Sean Neave the 9

If we did peddle him we still carry £30 Mill of book debt on his original fee so we want £150Mill+ to realise £120 Mill+. If he is injured fair enough, but the optics are shite. If he's being a twat his agent needs to be told, OK find him another club but under no circumstances is it one in this league.