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Cracking player, just what we need IMO. £40m is a bit too much, but he'd be a great signing IMO.

Did he play against us at SJP in the CL?

Not that I want to defend them, but people need to remember that the likes of Romano and Ornstein literally make their wages by reporting on transfers. It's in their best interests to stay on the good books with agents, while also reporting as much as possible on big transfers, and possibly even exaggerating figures to make things look as spectacular as possible. Every time I see a tweet from either of them now I take it with a huge pinch of salt and just remember that it's most likely coming from some scumbag agent and that it's worded to make them as much money as possible. It's a pretty filthy line of work if you ask me, but it makes them both very rich I'd imagine so well done to them I guess.

You're thinking of Yasir

Feel like this doesn't mean much @Ikon and @Flip are both much better than me as well Tbf

Take the points deduction then. Fuck does it even matter if we finish 6th or 14th? Not like we can attract players when we're in the Champions League anyway.

Been busy all evening, just Downie reporting this then or owt else going on?

Looks to me though like he caught the club completely off guard, and his behaviour has derailed our entire summer. We've had to shift our focus entirely to trying to find a top class striker, which we've obviously failed miserably at doing. I doubt our summer would have been remotely similar to this had he not thrown his toys out of the pram.

Sure it's already been posted, but apparently Only Wanted Man Utd

But their offer was within the error margin of ours, so if the player said he would prefer Man Utd they would barely be losing out.

Careful, or Froggy will tell you it was only 70+9.5 with someone else covering the rest of the fee and how good a deal it was for them.

At least then we're only sacking off one season I guess

Can see us getting him on a loan, unfortunately.

Doubt they'll drop their asking price by 75%.

What the fuck has he done, except sign for Chelsea, that should double that fucking price? He has ruined enough of my FPL weeks to know that he's fucking crap.

How much did Chelsea pay for him?

It's also better for us to have him in our reserves than playing for Liverpool, if that very unlikely scenario was to happen.

Can't even imagine what the defence will look like

The blacklisting wouldn't be because of ethical reasons

Fair point tbh. As we're seeing, Champions League and the money it brings isn't really that much, so might as well take a 10 point deduction next season to build a proper squad while losing fucking loads of money. We're unlikely to make Europe next season anyway the way things are going.

Every cloud

That's just a rehash of Romanos tweet, with the sources coming from Man Utd. Not saying it's wrong, but it's a) nothing new or b) anything worth paying attention to as it's coming from the potential buyer not the player or the selling club.

Swap deal for Sesko

And this is why £150m (or god forbid even less than that) for Isak is a joke. It'll barely be enough to get two strikers in, let alone be some game changing amount of money that will let us rebuild the squad.