AyeDubbleYoo

I’ve never had it but the helpful members of N-O make sure I see absolutely everything.

SSN is just TV Twitter.

Yeah, they gambled loads of money on those loan players and didn’t get CL. Can’t be feeling flush with money.

Well Keith is also ridiculous, but maybe slightly less.

Ah OK. That would definitely be an escalation now the team and staff are back. Personally can’t see that but we’ll see. If he does we should go into full hostile mode with refusing to pay him etc. FWIW I think he would’ve just stayed away from the training ground if that was the next move.

Aye, would’ve been disastrous if we hadn’t brought Pope back in, he’s miles better.

Well he trains unless he refuses to train, surely?

They aren’t.

Definitely a chance to make this look like he was really sorry and promised to work hard etc. Depending on what the Isak camp leaks as well I guess.

It was either today or tomorrow that Isak would be reporting back, I don’t think it’s crazy to just have a reporter there for both days.

I actually didn’t know that, can’t remember it ever being mentioned before now

If only anyone had a clue when that point is.

The fact that the club was putting out noises about there still being a road back and he can be reintegrated etc makes me think it’s not all lost. We will see.

Once we start bidding for Ramos people will tell us to move on from that as well.

I thought we told Liverpool to fuck off?

Wouldn’t it look the same from a Man Utd POV? He hasn’t gone there either.

Never liked him since he demanded a loan move to Man Utd’s bench. But before that I thought he was decent. Glad to see some of the squad players are being moved out. Just need to see a few come in as well.

I don’t think that’s a problem, it means he’ll be staying.

Because Man City had a clause to allow them to go first.

Just not sure if he has the legs to play the Tonali role for us, but he's a good DM for sure.

The fact this has played out when the squad were away is to our benefit really. It creates a natural restart point in time when they resume training this week. Isak can turn up, everyone necessary can talk to him, they can do whatever good and bad cop they deem necessary and he can be slowly brought back into the fold. Unless he's definitely going of course.

The report says they'll be looking out for actions like raised arms, not that they'll be watching Joelinton specifically. Poor headline as usual.

I think Howe is just using the distance thing so he doesn't have to answer the questions in any detail. He does that kind of deflection all the time.

It’s probably from the press conference before or after the friendly?

Going to be hard for the first week or so while the transfer saga isn’t actually resolved.