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I get the feeling that their asking price is always going to be "our offer + 10m"

Even aside from the reputational hit, being away from competitive football for an entire year could fundamentally alter the trajectory of his career. It would be an incredibly, preposterously dumb decision. But who knows, bro might be dumb enough to do it.

Good statement. Simple and dignified.

If Liverpool signed him for 50m and formally bowed out of the Isak race, I don't know if that would make me happy or sad.

It's not that bad in practice. Most of the time the law isn't that different other than with regards to fairly granular issues, and if you have a "national" practice you're only really practicing in a few states anyway (California, New York, Delaware etc.)

I think it's pretty clear that Liverpool are no longer interested at the prices we are quoting, hence the desperation.

Verbal agreements hold up in court all the time. But the promise has to be sufficiently definite to constitute a binding obligation and “we’ll sell you next summer if we get a fair bid” certainly doesn’t qualify. (I’d also assume that premier league player contracts contain a standard “no oral modifications” clause)

Paying the “Chris Wood desperation tax” for him does seem like one of the least bad options at this point.

You know what, I’m feeling charitable. Liverpool can have him for Ekitike + 50m

For what it’s worth, I don’t any club no matter how good can prepare adequately for being rejected by their first five striker targets, effectively within a single month.

As Collymore has stated, he’s either getting terrible advice or a complete idiot that doesn’t listen to anyone. Just doing thing after thing that makes him less likely to get the move that he wants.

He's just exposed himself as a complete knobhead. It's hard to take him seriously anymore.

Bro somehow managed to vault Michael Owen in the "hated (ex) player" rankings within a single summer.

And it's not even benefitting Liverpool or Isak! Do they think openly taunting us like this will make us more likely to cave?

I think I will derive enough pleasure from telling Liverpool to go fuck themselves at this point that I'm okay with not selling to them even at a reasonable price.

I think at this point we just need to focus on getting one non-embarrassing striker in to hold us over until January. I thought that would be Wissa but maybe not. The actual "Isak replacement" is just not out there. Half measures will have to do for now.

It's a huge honor! He might not ever win it again! Imagine being so sulky that you decide to forego celebrating that with your peers so you can... sulk more.

I would have more respect for him if he took a complete heel turn, released a statement saying "fuck you small-time losers, I'm going to Liverpool," and then showed up in the stands next Monday wearing a Liverpool shirt.

We've been saying this about "formal transfer requests" for years now and I have to assume there's no way clubs haven't closed that contractual loophole by now.

I've always thought that nobody could possibly be dumb enough to burn an entire year of their playing career by going on strike, but he just might be.

We do seem to be moving into the "we might be fucked" stage of this No striker in the team, Brentford running an extortion racket with Wissa, and seemingly nobody we'd want to pay 50m+ for left available anywhere in Europe.

I thought Milner was incredibly mediocre and was overjoyed to get money for him at the time. Sometimes players just need to escape a bad situation to thrive, and back then the bad situation was us.

Don’t we want the players we missed out on to turn out to be good? I don’t know what it says about our scouting system if 3-4 guys we were willing to drop 50m+ on turn out to be flops.

I think the one thing that might restore some if my respect for him is if he had the balls to come sit in the stands on Monday. Bonus points if it’s in a Liverpool shirt

I like how the content of this video is basically “yeah that Shearer volley v. Villa was one of the most traumatic moments of my childhood, and I used to fucking hate coming up here and playing in front of your stupid loud fans. I guess we’re on the same side now. Cheers.”