Minhosa

It was added yesterday on Rightmove and removed again this morning. Would be a heluva coincidence but I guess it could be just that.

Yep - this is it. That's what I was saying earlier about it not being what you'd expect a £150m star to be living in. By contrast, Wilson and Dan Burn are very close to this place and their houses are beautiful. I'd assume Wilsons is available now too just not being marketed publicly.

The Agent has withdrawn it, presumably following a swift kick in the bollocks by somebody or other, but it was 100% on earlier today. Was listed yesterday. And is 100% his house.

Can confirm this is 100% his house. Went up for rent yesterday.

We are now negotiating from a position of weakness thanks to this dickhead. Out of spite alone, I wouldn’t give him the Anfield move.

100%. We can’t win. If he is a success the agent will hawk to him whoever will pay him more. If he fails we’re stuck with him as our highest earner with an agent who’ll be brain damage in the background. I don’t like this one bit. Feels like the club might be compromising on some of their values (Dickhead policy for one) as a result of the Isak clusterfuck. Feels like a panic move.

I’ll put it out there that, whatever happens with this guy, he’ll be bad news long term. Whether that’s for us, Man Utd or somewhere else. His agent is grifting the shit out of him, year in, year out. This is a no from me.

Agree. I think Kelleher will be found to be lightweight this season. I’m pleased we didn’t get him.

Aaron Pissing Ramsdale? Honestly fuck this summer.

Aye Szoboslai would be ideal.

Still think we get Guehi.

Given what’s left of the window, I can see Eddie trying to get us a player in exchange. Better not be Joe Gomez. Overall deal has to be worth north of £135m. Minimum.

He’s to go now. We can’t have a situation that he has manufactured result in him being placated with a pay rise and gentleman’s agreement to leave next summer as that then becomes the playbook for Tonali, Tino, Bruno etc etc Get what we can and move on. Sickening behaviour from him and his agent.

Classic

Got to think he’d be after PL football in a WC year?

Aye. His replacement.

I live in the next street to him. See him about regularly. I'm 99.9% sure he lives in a house owned by the club and he’s never bought here. If he has bought it, it’s not a very footballer like gaff that’s for sure. Nothing like you’d imagine and nothing on the other players houses. He left straight after the last game of the season and only returned last week. There were police cars outside it about a fortnight ago tbf so not sure if he’s had a break in lately or not. I’ve said for ages that it felt to me he was only passing through because a top player wouldn’t settle long term in that sort of property imho. Harvey Barnes is the same though his (club owned) house is nicer.

So pleased someone else thinks this. I’ve said it for ages. Feels the same for Botman, Livramento etc too imho. I think you get these players who are clearly very very talented from such a young age that they already know they’re ’making it’ and it will be a high level career for them. I always thought Mikel Merino was the same for us. Superstar potential so just going through the employment motions until they reach the very top.

From ‘Just go and play’ Bruce to this statnonce. Brave new world.

I was thinking we could switch to playing a pure 10 particularly when up against a low block. Hes a proper door opener Gibbs-White. Knows Elanga and Gordon too.

Is MGW an option for us? We’ve seemingly got a good relationship with Forest. They’ve got the hump with Spurs. Release clause plus a million or two for goodwill?

Bit of a curveball but I wonder if we consider Richarlison now Spurs have signed those two? There are some similarities with Pedro.

He’s in Darras now.

Saw him today. Looked a picture of health after his health issues of last season.

You see I think Eddie wants 'PL proven' or possibly 'CL proven from abroad' this summer purely as a consequence of the learnings from the last CL campaign. Him and the coaches simply won't get the time on the grass with the new signings this year due to the congested scheduling caused by the CL demands. He's not going to be able to bed them in nor develop them as he usually does hence why he needs proven pro's at the top level (preferably PL I assume due to that being where the majority of our games will be played) but, even if they've played at CL level, at least he can use them with confidence in that competition whilst they learn to cope with the demands of the PL. If we weren't in Europe, I think it would be a summer of high level players with upside we've seen before. As it stands, I think he'd happily play a Murphy over an Elanga in the CL because Elanga can cope with the PL every week, as an example. It gives him a chance to rotate his squad with players 'competition ready' across the range we'll have to play. Presumably he might have to change course on this policy if we can't land Pedro, Guehi, Elanga etc but I think this is the reason we've massively geared the summer towards PL experienced players. I think it's purely a time thing rather than a massive change in policy or him preferring to buy PL players which often gets bandied about. He's such an intelligent bloke, just like he learned what to change after the Carabao Cup Final defeat to Man U, he'll have learned loads from our first stint in CL imho.