Rayvin

Who do you support? Don't worry, there won't be a witch hunt. Probably. You ruled out Liverpool previously so you're at least safe on that front.

We should bid the 40m asking price just for the hell of it, see if it spurs the cunts into action.

I assume it's for the sake of safeguarding the economy by inserting our heads up american arse. As you say, would make no sense for it to be about domestic appeal.

He should be ashamed to be seen in public with that slime of a man.

I love the idea that we're winning the propaganda war We've said basically fuck all compared to their fleet of media bellends, and yet we're winning? Maybe it's because to the objective eye, they've behaved like cunts. I also like the guy who thinks they'll get Isak for £50m next summer because of all this. Absolute dreamer.

Might need to be logged in to see it but here: https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=354531.3160 There's plenty in there tbh You get the idea anyway.

RAWK is in full on delusional meltdown about this now. There is a single NUFC fan over there (no, not Fish) trying to reason with them and they're carrying on like RTG

I am quite looking forward to the climbdown if he has to stay mind

Fair enough if it was, I'd still take him He conceded like 11 or 12 goals last year over the whole season ffs. He's clearly quite good.

Maybe. I'm impressed by him. It'd be annoying but I really think he'll be a great keeper in the future so he'd be worth it. That said, I doubt it would happen until next summer now.

How has he even ended up with this shyster of an agent anyway man, surely someone of his stature could have done better than that?

I reckon that's spot on - and the point about his value falling is a good observation also. That doesn't just hurt us, it hurts him - Liverpool could probably offer him 50k a week less now and he'd still have to take it because he's left himself no options and made a tit of himself in the process.

Yeah fair, of course he does have his moments and can turn a draw into a win etc - but then even Schar has those moments so to some extent. But yes, he is a player who occasionally can spank it in from nothing - his goal against Arsenal to put us past them in the semi final was one, the goal against Liverpool was another. In the end though I suppose the question is, even if we bring in a forward who can't get those but does get all the tap ins he scores (and he isn't actually that reliable on those sometimes), how much is that really costing us in terms of competitive capability? And I mean every point counts tbf, but it's probably no more than 5 or 6 over the season won via his brilliance. If we've improved the team to make up that 5 or 6 elsewhere by adding some depth, then we're probably taking the edge off not having him. Or I could just be writing a theory to suit myself and my bias

I think there might be something in this tbh. He wanted a new contract last summer and now he can see the chance for a really big payday while his stock is high. If he goes to Liverpool on 300k a week he doesn't have to maintain that level anymore, he's sorted.

As much as the media might want to believe it, we have at no point been carried on his shoulders. In fact, I'm tempted to say we make him look better than he actually is sometimes - he owes Murphy a lot for his stats last season.

Honestly I'm pretty happy - Howe can make most players the best versions of themselves anyway and we're a system team more than an 'individual wildcard' team. If we have good, intelligent players coming in who can do the jobs we need, and it feels like we do, then all good.

Nice, suggests he's really going to try and achieve something here. Maybe we see him off the bench soon.

Yeah whisper it but the window is starting to turn around a bit here. Feels like some real depth coming into the team if we land some of these targets. As everyone is saying though, still need two forwards...

Welcome to him, nice to see a CB come in, feeling a lot better about that position in general now. Hope he has many successful years here..!

What is going on with Delap and Ekitike?

I don't know what to make of it anymore. A mate of mine is was convinced for the entire second half the season that Isak's head had been turned. I refused to believe it citing interviews like that. He's either a really good actor, or his agent has turned him off us. I still wonder if the transfer issues played a part in all of this. I just don't get it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo Wikipedia loses its court battle with the government over the OSA... presumably will now have to age verify.

Possibly a good time to play them although I imagine they're thinking the same thing about us. Difficult game either way. Hopefully we can give a strong showing to make some sort of a statement that we're still here and still dangerous despite all of Isak's nonsense.

Fucking nailed the psychological profile of that guy the other day apparently.

Binning off his agent is the only way to recover from this IMO. And we should flat out refuse to work with the little fuck ever again.