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They wanted to sell him anyway, the thing that stopped them was the manager threatening to quit if they made him play a season with no defenders (I assume). Mistake they made was not selling him to us earlier.

Klinsmann was my favourite player as a kid, even had a Germany shirt with his name on the drew a lot of abuse from my friends Such an elegant player, just loved the way he moved over the pitch and took his chances.

Impressive by Palace as well, as a lot of clubs would've been prepared to sack/have their manager leave in order to make the money on Guehi.

While this is fair, official comms officer won’t be able to control whatever is leaking to the press from within the transfer team.

Well OK, but no reports of trying to buy

Imagine real mixed emotions because they really don't approve of Isak's behaviour.

Linked but didn’t actually try to buy?

I want to believe.

OK, fair enough, but progress can only happen so fast and we really need to appreciate the good times after all the shit we've been through. I just think it's an extremely negative spin on turning perennial relegation battles into 2 CL qualifications and the first trophy in a lifetime.

Who do you actually support?

Watching the Wissa interview after the Isak one was crazy really. We went out of the way to allow him to thank Brentford, he was smiling and laughing, genuinely beaming to be here. Isak was quiet, they completely avoided any mention of Newcastle or the fact he'd just been on strike. Guess that's the depressing truth of life as a football once you get to the financial road that Isak has decided to go down. It's more like transferring an asset between two companies and really shouldn't be expected to have an emotional component.

I think this will be his one big move TBH, probably why everyone in his camp was so desperate to make it happen.

So far very good.

Anyway, I don’t care about Villa I just find it weird how we always think other clubs are doing better than us.

Miley is about our 5th midfielder and Osula is our 3rd striker. That means nothing in terms of who has the better squad. Who is Villa’s 3rd choice forward and 5th choice CM?

People idolised Villa before as well, then we went and finished above them and made CL and they gambled on loads of expensive loan players and failed. It’s weird.

Stop it man

Well this is a different point

Fair enough, my point was just that I don’t believe any merit can be attached to what Liverpool have done here. And our decision to eventually sell was perfectly logical.

There’s no way Villa’s squad is stronger than ours, that’s insane.

Yeah, I was referring just to the Isak saga

Yeah, but I mean everything said at every stage is theatre. Would we have ‘won’ if we didn’t sell Isak and he just sat around for a year while we had a shit season?

It’s nonsense to me that Liverpool outplayed or bullied us or have come out of this winners is some profound way. They have more money because of the rules, we had a player with no professional standards who was prepared to make himself worthless to us in order to secure more money for himself. Even prepared to cost us millions by not qualifying for the CL. Liverpool are prepared to ignore this because it benefits them, that’s all. We have to sell because we can’t write off £100m+ and we can’t risk having a non-striker. Both clubs did what they had to do, Liverpool and Isak’s was just morally much worse. That’s it.

Hopefully we’ll always remember to abuse Isak to the greatest extent possible.

He’s not playing better, Burn is playing amazingly well. But Botman is a better player IMO. Nice problem to have, as they say. PS I never said we should be dropping Burn immediately, it’s just a shame that such a great CB has to be left out.