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Not sure about before but he definitely is now.

The club are very smart but also generous running this ‘he’s been badly advised’ line through Craig Hope. Leaves enough leeway to allow players and fans to give him another chance. If he wants one.

The whole saga makes so little sense, even more so if you include the Ekitike chapter.

But it’s not really ironic, we didn’t sell him to Liverpool. He didn’t say no player should ever want to leave their club.

Who said that? What I mean is that the way we rejected the bid, and the small size of the bid, is pretty unusual. It doesn’t feel to me like a negotiation. Of course I wish this was the case, so we’ll see.

He just needs to run loads and show he’s committed. It’ll be alright if he does that.

The rehabilitation begins

This is what makes me feel like it’s over. It wasn’t just a ‘turn down the initial bid’, it was enough to make the papers/tweets and scare them off. Could be wishful thinking obvs but I like the sound of the refusal.

They’ve bought 2 wingbacks as well haven’t they? Kamikaze football.

Hope is so funny, these people should not have any kind of public persona.

That’s fairly light when you’re dealing with Saudi Arabia TBH. They did well.

It’s the emphatic nature of the rejection that gives me hope he’s going to stay. Must’ve been pretty hardcore.

You might be right but TBF we’re not exactly Southampton.

Leaving the EU?

But again, in that case we just wouldn’t sell him. TBH none of this makes sense from Isak or Liverpool, it’s mental.

Wasn’t he already unsettled? Surely this would’ve been the time to pay enough to sign him?

Well I guess we can’t know, but that has to be the expectation. Actually the timing and nature of this shite bid is good for us. By end of next week this could be in the past.

Also that’s what they said before and they still bid

He looked shocking on the friendly highlights I watched, therefore I think this will happen.

The timing is good for us. Tell Liverpool to get fucked on Friday, he gets back to training and sees Eddie’s lovely face, new contract by this time next week.

But they already said they wouldn’t bid unless we encouraged them? But then we told them to fuck off so bad it stopped them completely? Curious.

It’s damaged but it’s no irreparable IMO. Fans have very short memories in general, if he commits and plays well we’ll cheer him. Maybe not the same as before but to a decent degree.

Absolutely. As shite as we’ve been on signings, laying down the law to our biggest asset is something we have the people to do.

I understand very little about this whole saga, unless it was just initiated by Isak's agent and Liverpool have jumped in. The planning is non-existent.

Isak on the steps of SJP, Keegan style.