AyeDubbleYoo

What percentages would you go for?

What would you have done?

What I mean is, you have to expect he will play to the best of his ability to warrant keeping him. Otherwise his value is just going to rapidly decline over those 3 years.

Yeah, none of it really makes sense to me. If the promises were made by someone who is no longer here, Isak couldn't expect them to be honoured. And if they were broken by someone no longer here, then why not give the club another chance. Seems most logical that him and his agent have latched onto whatever issue it was and used it to engineer a move that will make them both loads of money. This is why the blame has to fall 80-90% on Isak and his camp.

Depends what you think will happen during those 3 years.

I understand all the criticisms of not getting the 150 etc, but people seem to forget we were in a lose-lose situation. We’re in a place of deciding which of the bad outcomes we’ll take. Again, that’s Isak’s fault not ours.

Maybe but we can’t possibly know can we? I would personally have punished Isak and Liverpool as harshly as possible, but I’m not a business with a potentially worthless asset to deal with. It’s disappointing and annoying but I don’t think the price is really the issue.

Honestly not sure he’ll do well enough to get that move. Unless his 60 minute shutdown and drifting out of games was deliberate. Could be wishful thinking like

True but maximising the sale means the maximum you can actually get, not exactly what you want. Let’s hope there’s a deal done in the background for a striker.

Pass it on.

And the fact we’re selling Isak at peak value really, even if it’s a bit below the reporting max price.

I don’t know either way but I’m just saying it’s a risk to be factored in. And we don’t just need him to play, we need him to play to his absolutely best.

You can be gutted and disappointed by it while also understanding why it happened. At the end of the day it’s Isak that is to blame.

Well not quite, they also need to utilise a guy who is refusing to play and then hope to sell him for a high fee after that. Or write off £100 million plus.

I don’t see how it can be a panic, it’s being going on for months.

It has to be business related as well right? As much as I want Isak to rot and/or play for us again, you can understand how the club can’t countenance that with the money involved. It’s like writing off your most valuable asset. Hate everything about the deal TBH, but I imagine it’s at least partly money related. While PIF can afford to write Isak off easily, NUFC can’t.

Dibu?

Neither is Isak.

As if we’re going to call Liverpool encouraging them pay under his market value. Bollocks.

Yes.

Feel like it was a very odd selection and approach to a fairly easy game, gave them a chance. That said, everyone played badly and not sure any tactical approach would’ve fixed that. Forget it ASAP, get the window slammed and move on.

Maybe, it certainly creates more space for more misjudgements to be made and those are likely to run along the lines of any bias the officials have, even if it’s unconscious.

At times it’s easier to understand the PL as more like WWE than an actual sport. Such a shame because there’s no reason (except elite incompetence and greed) that it couldn’t the most authentic and most exciting league in the world without any of this nonsense.

I think it’s more incompetent than corrupt TBH. The video just creates more opportunities for officials to be absolute idiots and make themselves feel better by giving extremely nit-picky decisions.

VAR absolutely ruining football matches like, what a load of nonsense. Rule out a goal because another player stepped accidentally on someone’s foot FFS. Madness and ruining the product. Football needs to be really careful at the moment, stopping clubs buying players, making them sell their youngsters and ruling out their goals for no reason. It’s mental.