Andy

Cost us a minimum of 5 points already, by the looks of it. Don't care how good he is, at this stage I don't know how anyone can want the situation to end with him coming back into the fold purely because both he and the club are stuck with each other. He's a cunt. I'd rather start Osula up front and struggle at this stage than have to support him in our shirt again.

True. The root cause of this is the failure in the transfer window. Gordon has let us down tonight, but the people in charge of recruitment have let him and the rest of the club down, it's a complete joke that we've come into this match with STILL no replacement for a player who we knew needed replacing 18 months ago.

Absolutely fucking idiotic challenge. Let us down massively yet again.

Absolutely inevitable how this would play out. Also can they fuck off with this ref cam shite.

He isn't the solution either, though. One-system manager who doesn't have the club's backing to sign players who fit that system. The jury is still well and truly out on how good he even is with backing tbh. It's looking more and more like Brighton's insane recruitment around that period carried him to what was at best one good season (by their standards).

The description in that tweet is literally Isak at the end of last season though.

If a player improves you over the course of a full season, you don't pass on signing them just because they'll be missing for a month.

We had ZERO strikers whenever Isak was missing last season tbf, and that includes the entire time he was on the pitch in the last 5 or 6 games.

Alex (if you're lurking) are you free to help moderate the match threads while you're on strike?

We've already done this tbf. As soon as we kicked off the season with Gordon up top last week and failed to score, we added tens of millions on to any striker we're interested in.

I'd imagine the situation was very simple tbh, we made an offer, Man City matched it, Trafford chose Man City because it's Man City. He may have been "desperate" to come here at one stage, but once City were involved I'm sure the picture was different, you'd question the ambition of any player that rejected the most dominant team in the country, and you'd also question the mentality of any player who didn't fancy himself as good enough to start for them when they were interested.

Trying to create a narrative that we should sell him for £90m, shameful behaviour. Who would have thought @SEMTEX was an LFC agent after all these years, it's always the ones you most suspect

I'm not sure I agree, it would be madness to let him go without a replacement, they'd basically be asking for relegation. If they're unable to bring a striker in, they'll gamble on being able to get him to come back with his tail between his legs IMO, that is the less risky option for them in that scenario.

We need to move on, they clearly feel they can't replace him and would rather risk reintegrating him, and we can't offer up a figure that matches the value of his goals to them. They're in a similar position to us with Isak, except with a team that drops into being relegation quality when you take away his goals.

If that was true and we were going Wissa and Gordon, then why would we bother giving them Isak. Just let him rot until January in that case. If we have a plan to reinvest the money and the club see it as being in their best interests to sell, then fair enough, but that doesn't seem like the case.

Bruno, he fucking hates that he runs too slow, Rod is his burner account

100%. "The club have broken promises", but he's not going to expand on that... As others have pointed out, this whole thing kicked up after the Austria tour and before the Asian one, which just happens to coincide with when Liverpool started prepping a convenient low-ball offer. Not one mention of this falling out last season, even from reporters who claim they knew about it all along. It's all just spin to try and make him look like less of a cunt for downing tools. Maybe promises were broken, but it's not why he's on strike. He's on strike because he's a tapped-up Scouse pick.

The Staveley/Mitchell thing is just a convenient story that helps create a narrative against the club for Isak and his agent. He wants to move to Liverpool because they won the league and will pay him more, but doesn't have the balls to just say that

Hopefully not. Just remain silent and keep going about our business, getting dragged into a public war of words is worst case scenario here.

Isak will have signed off on it but he won't have conceived or written it, it'll have been his agent or a member of his team as an attempt at spinning public perception in their favour to put pressure on the club. Evidently, it hasn't worked.

I've been in the "just get rid of him at a good price and be done with it" camp until that statement. Now he can fucking rot in the reserves for me even if it fucks our season up. Best case at this point is to sign 2 strikers anyway and risk the PSR hit on the basis that you'll be able to sell him next summer anyway.

Offering him a new contract at this stage would be like proposing to someone immediately after they cheated on you tbh. I'm a long way from being able to stomach seeing him up front for us again personally, a pay rise shouldn't even be on the agenda right now.

I'm talking about perception on the forum. Not my personal opinion on him.

Feel like Jackson has gradually transformed from being a footballing meme to being Pelé's regen over the course of this summer. He's literally the bang average lass that suddenly looks like an absolute worldie after you've had a dry spell.

The actions are factual. The situations are (for all we know) journalist speculation. Without all the facts, you can only judge them off their actions.