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1 hour ago, Rayvin said:

 

Based on Collymore's intepretation of the finances involved in transfers (I'm still struggling to believe this is true) then that might not even represent a huge loss. His book value drops by another £10m, Sociedad's sell on drops by about £5m and we owe him about £15m less on the contract that we would have had to pay up anyway if we sold him now. So next summer, if we sold him for £120m, it would be about as valuable to us as £150m now - but with the bonus of him playing for another season. If he goes for £100m then that season costs us £20m.

 

I am very very open to being challenged on fantasy maths here (I still cannot believe I am interpreting this correctly but it at least seems to be valid based on Collymore).

It seems unlikely to me that you pay the full remain value of someone’s contract when, by leaving, they aren’t fulfilling their contract. We’d have heard about this before more generally too as it would have such huge financial implications, especially in the era of PSR, but even before then. 

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1 hour ago, Alex said:

It seems unlikely to me that you pay the full remain value of someone’s contract when, by leaving, they aren’t fulfilling their contract. We’d have heard about this before more generally too as it would have such huge financial implications, especially in the era of PSR, but even before then. 

 

I agree with you completely but Collymore's statement on it as thrown me a bit. But yes, incredibly unlikely that we wouldn't know. Maybe he meant the loyalty payment.

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Having watched that interview, I feel really sorry for Howe that he's being put through this clusterfuck and has to come out and be the face of the club in it. Professional as ever but he looked somewhere between disappointed and pissed off to me.

 

If we did know that he wanted away so early on in the window, as Howe seems to have indicated, then presumably our position throughout has been around trying to keep it internal while we sort everything out before taking action. What Isak has done since then is fucked up the entire thing by exposing the situation to everyone externally, meaning we're now facing heightened transfer fees left and right, and possibly preventing us from signing players who might otherwise have come.

 

He actually deserves to fail for this IMO. He deserves to be 'stuck here for another season against his will' because his fucking stupidity has derailed the entire process for replacing him and made a clown show out of it.

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Big LFC accounts punting out the message that Slot spoke to Etikike in January. Makes the narrative that they wanted two after Jota died fuckin bollocks if as it sounds like Howe and Isak were having conversations about his future in April/May...he'd already been tapped up and they also wanted Etikike. Makes the move for him fuckin stupid iyam. Howe & his nephew/Nickson undoubtedly knew Liverpool wanted him this summer but went for him anyway 🤪

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2 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

Big LFC accounts punting out the message that Slot spoke to Etikike in January. Makes the narrative that they wanted two after Jota died fuckin bollocks if as it sounds like Howe and Isak were having conversations about his future in April/May...he'd already been tapped up and they also wanted Etikike. Makes the move for him fuckin stupid iyam. Howe & his nephew/Nickson undoubtedly knew Liverpool wanted him this summer but went for him anyway 🤪

 

anti-Semitism 🚩

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8 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

Big LFC accounts punting out the message that Slot spoke to Etikike in January. Makes the narrative that they wanted two after Jota died fuckin bollocks if as it sounds like Howe and Isak were having conversations about his future in April/May...he'd already been tapped up and they also wanted Etikike. Makes the move for him fuckin stupid iyam. Howe & his nephew/Nickson undoubtedly knew Liverpool wanted him this summer but went for him anyway 🤪

 

"undoubtedly knew Liverpool wanted him"? How's that? 

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2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

"undoubtedly knew Liverpool wanted him"? How's that? 

 

There's no secrets in football at that level... people know. Tbf NUFC may well have also received encouragement from Etike's people . Just my thoughts on it... 

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When you look at all the run-ins Deeney had in his less than stellar career you could be forgiven for thinking he was the problem 

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28 minutes ago, Dazzler said:

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/2099213/newcastle-transfer-news-alexander-isak-liverpool
 

in other news Troy Deeney went on to have a normal training session.

How idiotic and removed from reality does someone have to be to think this, do this, reflect on this then write it in a national newspaper 15 years later?

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2 hours ago, Howmanheyman said:

You've got to love the process that allows some of these puddings to become media pundits. 


The man lasted 29 days in his first and only managerial role. That should tell you all you need to know about his knowledge of football.

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