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I think they'd win the league without Isak TBH.

Aye I suppose so, they do currently have Nunez though and he's been playing and scoring in their first couple of pre-season games. It's just so unusual to see a club buy two mega-strikers in the same window.

The whole thing is weird. They've basically wasted 80m or whatever on Ekitike. I mean, unless their wealth literally is unlimited.

Part exchange when we send Isak to Saudi?

Plausible but Liverpool bought Ekitike even though they really wanted Isak?

Could be we didn't want to take him I guess. Which is weak by the club and player but not as bad as refusing to go.

100%, feels like the wrong people have been appointed in a couple of major cases, but at least we are trying to fill that right positions with people are actually experienced in their jobs. I just hope we can hang onto Howe for long enough to bring in the new exec and get something efficient in place.

The tour is more marketing than season prep, but I take the point.

Baggy trouserings.

As long as we sign an elite-level striker I can accept the situation, worry is we don't.

Everyone is sure of this but why haven't they done it already?

I know it feels like it, but everyone can't sign for Liverpool and Chelsea.

Yeah, if Isak was desperate to go to Liverpool we could have just got Ekitike. Liverpool have surely made it harder for themselves to get Isak now.

No chance.

I actually don't know what Eales has to do with recruitment. Genuinely.

Agree if the quality is right, particularly the new top ST must be very top and the GK needs to be a top passer. Or shagger.

It's a good signing no matter what else happens. Of course we can't have him as our only senior striker

Pick up their calls, just don't go over.

Eh? That makes no sense at all We turned on him because he turned on us first, no? If he wants to stay then everything is lovely.

They should've never got you down from the roof

Could be worse than that TBH, he could be refusing to play and we could be covering up by saying he's injured.

Always had the vibes of getting done quite easily.

He wants more money, fair enough. But we were discussing how much it had to do with Elanga's salary, which is nothing. If he refused to travel then that's inexcusable and makes him look even worse.

He can want what he likes but sometimes it's not possible due to a contract you have already agreed. He should've been good enough for Liverpool to buy him when he came to England. Is one argument

I'm bracing for a Yasir smackdown TBH, just hope it doesn't go too far.