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It won't. Besides, fear is the last reason a player should want to stay at a club.

You could always take a stand for moral uprightness by turning your back and refusing to celebrate any goals he scores for us.

Frankfurt scouts have logged ont NO and been scared off.

Agree. He can barely find a way past one defender out wide, he'd get swamped playing in the penalty area.

That's the right way to look at it. He was our player for 3 years, why let him leaving spoil one of our best memories this century?

Serves them right for giving us the "£80m for a world class defender" bullshit last summer.

I hate anyone in a scouse kit tbf. I'll hate him a little bit more I guess.

They can have him for that price.

I think having a well established DOF helps a lot there. We've changed ours twice in 3 years and were working this summer without one, so not surprising mistakes were made.

I really can't be arsed with holding onto the venom tbh. He was one of the best finishers I've seen playing for us and it was good while it lasted. Would love to see him fail at Liverpool, but not going to fret about it because he probably won't. The King is dead. Long live the Woltemade.

Mine was on end results. If execution was part of the rating it would come down from an 8 to a 6.

8 for me as well. No one could have factored in Isak throwing a hand grenade into our plans, so all things considered, I think we've done really well. I think if we'd handled Isak's tantrum or seen it coming a bit earlier, we could have had Ekitike and/or Wissa a lot cheaper. But then we probably wouldn't have got Woltemade, so that might still turn out well if he comes off. Getting the RW and RCB sorted was massive, and Ramsey at LM might also turn out to be a masterstroke. Ramsdale as well is looking better with every Trafford fuck up. Can't complain at all really.

The club never said we wanted £150m though. It was just a figure which was put out there to bump the fee up.

Fratttesi seems the only likely one if there is one more, but my gut instinct tells me we're done.

It's hard to say really. Their fans might get annoyed at his lack of stamina and muscle niggles, but on the other hand, they will create a lot of chances, and it's hard to see him not scoring a hatful.

They won't need to do that much tbh. He wanted us ahead of Spurs, that's a massive tick right there.

What...on loan?

Yeah. I imagine Elanga would be next in line if Gordon gets himself sent off again during that time.

Going to leave us a bit short when Wissa leaves for ACON though.

On loan at that.

PIF obviously don't care about the money that much, the Newcastle project was as much about building their global brand than anything else. They are trying to grow the club within PSR shackles. We are still trying to recruit the best in class at least given we won't be able to compete with cartel clubs.

Neave looked more of a natural striker from what I saw in preseason tbh.