Yorkie

That sounds absolutely fantastic.

I dunno which one you mean but okay, Rod.

I've been saying the same thing over and over again for days and stand by it. To the delight of readers everywhere I'm sure.

I can't find it; can you quote it? Re the profit; if we'd bought him for £20million I'd agree with you. The underlying point to my whole argument since Bailey printed his garbage is that £100m+ just isn't gonna be a thing we see a lot of because I believe the market is 'deflating.' Isak is potentially an exception, and my first post on the matter was that we should be looking for £90-100m. (In the unlikely scenario of him departing)

Not this one? Picked it up on Vinted a while back. Badge had fallen off so it was like £8.

Nobody said this. I said £80m "wasn't an insult," because it isn't; no one is insulting anyone by putting 80 million quid on the table. It matches the most anyone in this league has ever paid for a striker excluding the Blue lunatics. And I said £17m was a decent profit, which it is, thanks to the backwards world of PSR. How many clubs have turned a profit on an investment that big? However, it's possible to think all of the above whilst also being absolutely certain that we shouldn't (and wouldn't) blink at such an offer.

Who?

Lethal is right. So fucking sharp and God knows how he generates the power he does.

FG win 2-0 so the sides trade places at the top. Pity but always gonna be the hardest game of the season from York's point of view.

Wall to wall bangers. Fluminense ffs. Italy second.

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/sandro-tonali-the-unlikely-poster-boy-of-italys-renaissance-lhx3hl08d

Bloody hell. That's unreal.

Should his legs always fly up like that after a dive?

Absolutely. Not seen a second of Palace this season so keen to see how he does here, seeing as we'll inevitably go back in for him.

Enjoyed that forward ball fired into feet from Guehi.

Agree with that, but in the context of Ashley's ownership.

What you've snapshotted there is definitely one of the spikes of the Ashley era. SackPardew.com, 'celebrating' defeats, beginning of the in-fighting, the realisation that we didn't want to compete, being told by all and sundry to be happy with our lot. I was apathetic and angry but, unlike the Bruce days, I still believed then that changing the manager would change anything. Hideous.

Ffs of all the kits/seasons. We didn't even wear that half and half one competitively.

I hadn't considered the Sociedad contribution so will make a concession there. Still, I'm not sure what leverage is to be gained by having to make a sell-on contribution. From the buyer's point of view, they're offering £17million profit and that's hardly unreasonable. As I've said more than once now; I'd expect us to hold out for more in the event of any concrete interest because Isak is a phenomenal striker and he's beyond crucial to NUFC. But I honestly think anyone expecting us to say "nine figures or fuck off," just isn't living in the real world. Deals of that nature have happened, obviously, but in 50% of cases Chelsea were the buyers and in the other 50% of cases the players were key England internationals. £100m+ isn't going to become the norm. One of the league's best players was recently illuminated in Fenwicks window for that price and no one bit.

Can't find this, can you quote it?

Honestly even if Sandro spent five minutes on that whilst looking at it, it's quality. It's such a hard badge to draw.

If Isak were to leave, obviously I'd hope he'd only go for something truly obscene, I said so yesterday. It would have to be, in order to offset the loss of a player who puts us in the running for titles. But £80m isn't an "insult," it's an enormous transfer fee and a decent profit on what we paid. I don't picture 9-figure transfer fees becoming a routine thing in this league tbh. There's only been four deals made which are in that bracket; two of them done by Chelsea - which is a totally unreliable barometer - and the other two were English internationals in their prime; there's always been a premium on those relative to the market. Maybe Isak would go for that but he'd be one of extremely few. Just reacting to the 'news' story posted tbf, though I don't think discussing the hypotheticals is inherently pessimistic.

It isn't, though. That matches the highest fee ever paid by a PL club for a striker (excluding Chelsea (Lukaku)). Anyway, it's surely a moot point for now. He's not going anywhere any time soon, he's got it great here.

I got sucked into Deliverance on BBC2 and there was honestly more charisma there.

Eh? Just the standard Dan Burn victory rage; he's always at it.