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To be fair, for balance, although I feel the same as you 1) Liverpool were the only club interested, 2) it's a bit different turning down £50-55m compared to £125-130m. Fully onboard with 3) though.

Shame. Don't really care about the price. Would just be nice to see this behavior not being rewarded and us having a full season to find a suitable replacement while Woltemade is bedding in.

Of course. It's a process. He doesn't just ramp up for training with the squad like nothing has happened this summer and is automatically selected to start our next match.

“We are really missing our striker. “We hope to have our best player back, but unfortunately, this is a situation that neither I nor any other player can control.” - From our club captain Reintegration will only be hard/impossible for the most stubborn fans. Everyone else will recognize it's in everyones best interest to have Isak up and running for us asap, even if our feelings for him are past the point of ever appreciating him again.

Lets not be monsters here

Hope we keep him, that he has a great season and that he scores against Liverpool in the return fixture to win us the game. Liverpool take it personally a buy him for £150m in the summer on a 6 year contract. He breaks down in the opening game, starting a series of muscle injuries that will plague him for the rest of his career. He'll be in and out of the team, never living up to the player he was here. He'll be on so high wages nobody, even Saudi, will be interested in taking on such a high risk player for the money it would cost. Rather than taking a wage cut and stepping down a level or two, Isak will stay until his contract is up. Liverpool fans will hate his guts. He'll sign for an Italian Serie A club on a free transfer and have a small but insignificant resurgence where he enjoys playing football for the first time in 6 years until he retires, mainly being remembered as one of the biggest flops in football history.

11 shots, 4 on target for Villa. 4 shots, 3 on target for Palace. Feels like Palace are about to do our 2011-12 season.

Schmeicel and Ljungberg absolutely ripping into Arsenal, their safety first approach and time wasting on every single set piece during HT here The freekick Rice blasted far over goal from 35 meters took 45 seconds to take. Shameless

To be fair, if you google Newcastle fashion one of the first hits are Mike Ashleys baggy jeans. Just trying to fit in.

4 central defenders and 3 defensive midfielders starting for Arsenal. Arteta really going for it.

Sure you don't mean that you're resentful of him?

Leeds were unbeaten at Elland Road for 21 games before this, so its clearly a tough ground to come to. In hindsight, and trying my best to forget how utterly boring the game was, a point here isn't so bad even if much of their unbeaten streak is from the championship.

Why not five, or six? Mbappe, Bellingham and......?

Finally how I'd want the team to line up initially, except Ramsey for Miley. Watch us do even worse and lose now

Elanga, Barnes & Hall for Murphy, Botman and Trippier the last 30 minutes could be lethal. Just wish we hadn't stepped up at Elland Road to keep it tight for the first 60-70 minutes.

Playing better now.

This tactic just isn't working. Get Botman off for Barnes and go with our 4-3-3

Burn 1v1 against James

Longstaff fired up for this. Fuck

Can someone please bestow me complete immunity and immortality? I'll have the genocides in Gaza, Ukraine, everyone involved with project 2025 and football fixed within the week.

Fucking shoot these corrupt fuckers and every ref clean in the back of their heads. Reset everything.

What a fucking shite set of games today. Cartel clubs getting everything they point at from the refs thanks to VAR picking up every little thing opposition teams does. Completely convinced refs have been instructed to rule in favor of cartel clubs "for the product".

Changing back to the Sunderland game then.

Changing over from the Sunderland game then.