Kid Dynamite

Paqueta gets off with the betting ban.

The main concern is that Leipzig are in the CL next season, so does he see us as a side step rather than a step up?

I've trying not to get my hopes up, because we've seen how this transfer window has gone so far, but.... Sesko, Ekitike and Gyokeres were the 3 best strikers on the market at the start of the window. It's a coup if we get him. The fact we are in talks with him puts laid to the theory that PIF are going to insist that Isak stays. No chance we are buying Wissa AND Sesko without selling Isak

If by everything, you mean literally nothing....

Worth remembering Pickford sold for £30m 8 or 9 years ago. But we've spent weeks bartering over a few million for a player who (at the time) was desperate to join.

We were interested in Sesko before he went to RB Leipzig

Yep. We played chicken for too long, and in the intervening month City decided they wanted a new keeper.

We need a PIF club to help us out here. Get one of them to bid £175m for Isak. We accept it and say you can leave to go to Saudi, but we expect any PL bids to match what we've already been offered.

Looks like we agreed a deal yesterday with Dubs going to other way (hence not being in the squad). City got 72hrs to match the price, and Trafford chose them. I don't blame him. So now we've got no new keeper and pissed off our backup keeper

Ornstein reckons we bid £27m. City matched it and Trafford chose them over us 🤮

It's like a fucking social experiment at this point. Could have had him at £20m last Summer. Agreed personal terms and then changed our mind. Could have had him at £40m this Summer. Agreed personal terms and then tried to play chicken with Burnley over the fee.

Bruno has no links to the club, but I'm not sure he would do this...

*home game

I'd sell him, to anyone other than Liverpool. I'd drive him to PSG myself. He's never going to be worth more than he is now. He was off the boil at the end of the season. "IF" we can bring in £130m + and replace him with Wissa and Sesko with cash left over, if not be too disappointed. Im not sure I can cope with getting beat off Liverpool first game of the season with Isak, Ekitike, Wirtz and Salah all starting in attack.

But if Tonali, Gordon, Joelinton and Bruno are all on £150kpw, how do you put Isak on £300k without their agents all asking for the same?

Mitchell is part of the problem. We didn't have these issues before he joined the club

Id sell to anyone but them. He's got 3 year left. He doesn't leave unless it's on our terms

I mean who is left as a proper Isak replacement? Sesko?

If we hadn't fucked up so much of the transfer window I could have viewed this as our Coutinho moment. As it is, we appear to manage to negotiate one deal at a time, and take about 4 weeks to agree a transfer. And Wissa is fine as a Wilson replacement, but he's miles of being an Isak replacement.

A cup win after 70 years, a champions league place, a big Summer budget, a great feeling around the city and club, all fucked in the space of 4 weeks. Pied by at least 7 players, our best player wanting to leave (and probably to the club that nabbed our replacement in waiting), ridiculous waits to replace senior staff, build a new training ground, announce a new stadium. What a shit show. Wouldn't blame Howe if you jumped ship tbh.

Looks like Osula is going to get plenty of minutes pre- season then.

I hope we tell him he's got 3 years left on his deal so he needs to either sign a new one or honour his existing deal. Then sell him for £100m next Summer.

So the opposite of Ekitike then

The amount of fans on Twitter moaning about Wissa's age because it "limits his resale value" Who gives AF about his resale value!? Tonali, Bruno and Isak all have high resale value but I hope we hold on to them all for the best parts of their careers!

Official version below. Sharon has been hunting these videos down the last 3 weeks as she is releasing the show in cinemas next year https://www.reddit.com/r/BackToTheBeginning/s/VGKGYO1NP2