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Which net though?

Way worse than buying a house this. Tedious at best, waiting on the chain to get moving

Or stick with Murphy? I know it's not ideal and would be emergencies only but Gordon doesn't seem to offer anything at all when he's been used there in the past. I think Elanga could possibly work better there if needed

Wonder if he could play through the middle if we didn't have a CF? We've tried Gordon there a few times in emergencies and it's generally failed miserably. I know he's a winger but I like the idea of him dropping into spaces centrally and a little deeper and running onto through balls behind the back 4 and finishing past the keeper. A proper CF is obviously ideal but I think he'd be a better bet than Gordon has been maybe? Just an idea

If he ends up at fucking Sunderland his agent needs sacking on the spot. From Juventus to Sunderland man, it's like falling off the top of Everest and rolling into base camp 1

They've got a £100m credit card that they can tack on to the billion they're already in hock to. It's all absolutely fine and legit though

He just needs to carry on playing things with a flat bat every time he's asked. In 2 weeks time it'll be ridiculous and he just needs to stay as calm as possible and give the press as little as possible. Sign the players we can at prices we can afford and rule Isak out of the equation for the foreseeable, and that takes all the pressure off. He needs to continue to make this an Isak/Liverpool problem, not a Newcastle one

Edwards' got this. Impossible to lose your reputation if one has no reputation

I think the idea is to give away a throw near the opposition corner flag and immediately put them under pressure from their own throw in. There's a logic to it, videos of PSG doing it at the Club World Con this summer

Just a shit ragu that's got too much meat in and doesn't coat the pasta enough probably

Copying PSG I assume?

Seems like he's joined them for the club they used to be rather than the club they currently are but that's totally his prerogative tbh. And if that's the way his mind works then I'm glad he's not here. I also get the impression he and his agent are going to be hard work and become a bit of a drama-magnet at the end of every season if its not going perfectly for the pair of them. We'll see

35m is perfectly fine tbh. Anyone who's going to improve us is costing at least 30m anyway (unless they're out of contract etc). If other clubs agreed a smaller fee earlier in the window then good for them, doesn't necessarily make our 35 a bad deal, seems a good price for a good player who should only increase in value because he's still so young. Adding him and Wissa in the next couple of days is the start the salvage operation

It was all hypothetical and I largely agree. That 3 years remaining is our best card in the deal and we do need to sort out the squad. Problem is we'd need an extra striker on top of what we already needed if we're making a stand on isak. Had he not gone on strike it would have been feasible

I'm just suggesting that we'd have been far more willing to negotiate a price as opposed to digging our heels in and rejecting every offer less than what we're after. Had they been reasonable then I think we would have done so to. Now we have no option but to match their energy and play it as hard as possible. Not a penny less than what we're after, all up front, no extras, no clauses etc. Bleed the sly cunts dry

We'll never know but I honestly think that if Isak and Liverpool had gone about this professionally and genuinely then he'd already have been signed a few weeks ago. Had Isak just remained professional, got himself fit, went on tour and tried his best then I think Howe would have been reasonable and started to agree a sensible fee. He's now painted himself into a corner. He's refusing to play, Howe's refusing to let him train with the squad, Liverpool are in the background pretending to do nothing but continually briefing the shills on SM. A completely different approach by those cunts and he's probably already in a red shirt. All they've done is ensure the whole thing is now messy and very expensive as a direct consequence of their cuntishness

Whoopsies

By default, yeah. He's fit and has looked bright - he's in tbh

Bet he's had a better one than most Newcastle players tbh

Price seems a little steep considering his age but if we can get 3 seasons out of him then move him on we'll probably get most of it back. Always been a pain to play against and I think he'll do really well, he'll certainly get lots of minutes across all 4 comps too. Good player, good signing but we still need at least another 3 or 4. Can't afford to waste time slapping each other's backs yet, still loads more to do to salvage this window

At some point in the very near future were just going to have to bite the bullet and pay the price the selling club wants. We've fucked about for so long that getting good value is almost impossible with a few weeks to go. All well and good driving a hard bargain in June but the bargains are all gone now. May as well go all in on this lad imo

Enter Chelsea...

He always wanted to play for them as opposed to us, it was obvious a couple of weeks ago. We were just a convenient distraction to maximise his fee, wage and signing on fee. He was never signing for us

Imperative this bloke signs, we're utterly fucked if another club comes in at the last minute. Need to get this done and wrapped up and if it means going a few mill more than we'd like then so be it. Add the extra on to the Isak fee, they can pay the extra the fucking skiprat cunts

Absolutely no suggestion from them at all that Isak is the one driving it. No suggestion Liverpool have done anything untoward or tapped him up or are encouraging this. The whole holier than thou image they push is stomach churning. We're being made out to be the cunts in this whole story when it's our player who's been tapped up and it's isak being a cunt despite clearing £130k a week in the process. Burn it down. Fuck the whole lot of them. I'd jack the price up every single hour and fuck his career in the process. Actions need to have consequences