LionOfGosforth

So he'll cost less now?

Think we were just incompetent with that one. You could argue unlucky with Pedro and Ekitike maybe but that one was just pathetic on our side.

And claim a penalty while they're doing it. Which makes no sense but sounded funny in my head.

To give in to that utter cunt now would be the worst thing we could do. Liverpool could pay us 200m and it wouldn't change my mind, there's no time to do anything now, nothing significant or meaningful anyway. We'd be getting quoted double or triple what a player is worth, it's already happening with Jackson and other average players, we couldn't have done this window worse really.

I wish we'd come out and speak on it, about how clubs are using agents and paid reporters to do their dirty work, how the media incessantly paint us in a negative light and constantly try to sell our best players (watch Tonali be next summers "unsettled star") and how we're tired of it and actually come out with something resembling balls but we're too bloody nice.

Chilling move man

He wanted an important salary #PastaNonce. Ugh, I feel dirty posting in this thread even in jest

At this point I think we're going to struggle to sign literally anyone else, maybe a couple of loans. Holes all over the squad but we're utterly desperate and everyone knows it, hence we're going to pay top dollar and then some for anyone we approach clubs for. We've had good intent to kick on massively but been well and truly been fucked over by a combination of media and agent leaks, the Isak saga and executive chaos/incompetence. Don't see any way out of this, this summer. Need those leadership roles filled with quality and a new approach for next window.

Aye but is he a certified bagsman?

"ongoing" mint

246 fucking pages on this cunt in 2 weeks man On a more serious note, it's really really distasteful that the 6 clubs who tried desperately to leave and fuck over the entire footballing pyramid, are afforded such potty and non-competitive rules, leeway with staggering debt and general fawning from the entire media, not to mention the uncontained glee when one of them pips us to a player. Turns the fucking stomach.

Feeling more and more just like the 24 hours or so I allowed myself to believe we might have Ekitike in the bag(sman) and have the best strike force in the PL

After the utterly cynical and concerted media campaign by paid shill "reporters", Sky and pundits, the determined effort to unsettle him and then the inevitable low-ball derisory offer, I would not even pick up the phone from these cunts ever again. They have made it clear that while they'll happily spend 200m on unproven in the PL talent, they won't pay the going rate for a top 3 striker in the world, so as not to finance us any more than they need to. Very blatant, very obvious. Would not sell to them at any price, don't fucking care what they offer, 150m plus fucking add-ons, shove it up your arse "la".

Might as well re-brand to Liverpool FC TV the sackless, shit-stirring wankers.

And exactly what message would it send to our squad if we crumble to these loathsome bastards now? That we'll give in and sell to anyone who decides they have to have our best players as cheaply as possible? What's next summer's saga gonna be? Tino to City on the cheap? Tonali to Chelsea? Fuck these clubs man.

I just wouldn't sell him, why should we be forced into it? We have no leverage currently in terms of a bidding war, apparently only these scumbags can currently bid for him so they're trying everything they can to get him cheaper. Despite paying top money for two unproven players from Germany, they want Isak on the cheap. It's quite blatant, they don't want to finance us any more than they have to. Fuck Liverpool. We should feel no pressure to sell. Fuck Liverpool.

I think he was, he'd just come off a bit of a down season allowing us to get him a bit under radar. Sesko was utter toss in the Euros. All moot anyway, we're not signing him, doubt we were ever in for him at all.

Not even half the player for me, from what i've seen. Plus he seems like a cunt and his agent is a mega-cunt.

Who cares about losing one of the top 3 strikers in the world to the ESL cunts closing in on spending half a billion in one window, when we've agreed a 4m loan for this lad? Get it announced, we need the lift it'll inevitably bring, just the spark our fanbase needs.

Aye, our PSR headroom will look class

I wish fair market value could also be applied to the entitled ESL wanks deciding they want a club's best player and using the media and agents to drive the price into the ground like the bastards they are.

Fuck Liverpool. They came along, gazumped us for Ekitike then decided that spending 350m just wasn't enough and now they want one of the top 3 strikers in the world on the cheap after using their paid cunts in the media to unsettle him exactly for that purpose. Utter, utter wankers. We may as well wave the white flag if we give in to these bastards. The alternative is to keep an unhappy player who's burned every last bridge. There's absolutely something basically illegal in all this and yet the media love-in on all things Scouse are just lapping it all up. Wish PSG would come along and blow them out the water, I could live with that. Plus him scoring in the last minute against the Scouse scum in the CL final. I'd celebrate that almost like us winning the LC.

Feel like all the disruption and media-engineered bullshit around Isak has got most of our focus. I haven't seen a single credible link for weeks, season starts in 2 weeks and we have more GKs than anything else.

No-nez tbh

We'd still be haggling over the fee