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They're already planning the next Stack knees up to allay fans' concerns.

Someone knocked that up with nothing more than their phone gallery's collage/edit tools and I cannot be convinced otherwise.

Hi guys. Can't watch. Can people let me know if I'm supposed to be outraged please? Thanks. X

Officially sick of totally green kits. Even ignoring the drab designs or Saudi connotations. They just look dogshit on the pitch.

Well it's a step up on the last make weight goalkeeper foisted on us.

If I had a penny for every professional blagger who never lasts anywhere fucking over the club over post-takeover, I'd have two pennies. Which isn't a lot. But it's weird that it happened twice.

So emotional.

I'm just here to call @Mike a piece of shit.

Don't see why it can't be a mixture of both. Sees more long-term success somewhere like Liverpool but could give us a bit more time if we cough up short term with a viable way out in a year if he wants. Obviously it's speculation from all of us at this point. But I personally feel we've cocked up not giving him a new contract when we promised and he's not happy with simply being told 'don't worry the guy who fucked up is gone', made worse by watching us yet to even replace that scapegoat plus fail to successfully navigate another transfer window. I don't think anything we can offer will now satisfy him. Honestly I wonder if half our attempted business this summer was focused specifically on keeping him sweet. The one and only player we've stumped up for being an international mate of his. The Ekitike punt to prove our ambition.

So the Ekitike/Isak smokescreens were a success?

Make sure they photoshop a grumpy looking Isak on one of the models, too.

Can we revive 'the real test is next summer' yet?

I don't disagree that a lot of it is who you know but when we're talking about players signed 3 years ago I don't see how much that's really changed. Especially considering the club hierarchy was more bare bones than it is now, even ignoring the need to figure out Mitchell and Eales's replacements.

Is it time to go back to the Bruno/Isak-style well of players after we've finished mucking about with this one, please? That's what's making these 'sagas' all the more exhausting. We've seen the club can sound out quality players that are slightly off the radar with less competition for their signature. At what point do we reach that on our list of targets again?

Proud to say I thought he was a prick from day one.

Reported.

Sick of the baldism on this forum. It has to stop.

Well shit. Picked a good moment to remember this and switch the match on.

I know it's easier said than done but people really need to stop giving all these 'updates' the attention these pricks crave. They realised the intertwining rumours of Ekitike and Isak can be the story of the summer and without an ounce of genuine knowledge are just regurgitating the same bollocks over and over, with slight contradictory tweaks in every other post. There hasn't been a single indication any of them know a single bit more than they did 3 days ago.

It's exactly what I expected when the talk started again these past few days. I knew I should've just kept my guard up.

I'm hearing they've reserved the number 9 for him.

Fair. As you were.