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These prices are making Nunez look like a bargain.

Silva will be good value in the after match presser. A 2 handed push like that completely takes you out.

Everyone duck 😆

What about the foul behind that? Joke

Sky Sports had some irrelevant League 1 or 2 side owner on during the week. They were asking for his thoughts about the Isak situation, he said he’d sell and get him out and couldn’t understand our problem. WTF would he know about replacing the best CF in the league, Sky really are just filling in space at this point.

Potter looks absolutely broken.

Two games in, some effort this from West Ham.

wtf is Wan Bissaka playing at; sleeping for 2 goals so far.

Is he back from S Korea yet?

Wow, quite the take from RAWK, 16 years later SJP still didn’t have fences. I’m not sure I like the implied subsequent events that look to be pointed towards us: Funny how everyone forgets that this passionate fanbase were one of the biggest reasons we had fences and cages for fans. Their sense of entitlement in 1974 led them to stage a pitch invasion during a quarter final of the FA Cup at st James’ Park because they were losing to 1-3 to then second division Nottingham Forest. After the pitch invasion was cleared and the match resumed, Newcastle, down to ten men, came back to win 4-3. The FA recognised that this was probably due to the pitch invasion and voided the result. After two replays at Goodison, Newcastle went through. The calls for fencing in fans really started after that.

They’ll not meet our valuation and we’re not getting 2 replacements in. They’ll put a bid in just add more unrest ahead of Monday.

No thanks, we’d be looking to upgrade next season. PSR liability.

I quoted the wrong post, meant the one about being the same situation as Isak.

I think there are some subtle differences, we’ve not had Ornstein and others pushing an agenda and we have made a bid at what was believed to be acceptable and another well above that. I don’t agree with the way Wissa has gone about this. I do feel Brentford have been moving goalposts whereas our position hasn’t changed throughout with Lpool agitating in the background. I do agree that ultimately Brentford can do what they want. I think we’ll go back with a final offer.

Wissa is crystal clear in that he wants to come here. If he ends up anywhere else we’d have every right to feel a bit paranoid about some clubs having an agenda/ adding a Saudi tax.

That’s a cracking price; we’d have been quoted 80M.

All said and done, there’s nowt new in there. He’s poking the bear, wanting a reaction he can feed off. Ignore him, nowts changed, although Wissa might now be 70M with Andy Carroll coming in at 25M. Isak has played a shocker.

Now deleted it?

He’s baiting the crowd for Monday in the hope he gets slaughtered and can come out about his well being and how he can’t possibly stay. He’s now absolutely going to get slaughtered but the club can’t sell to the red twats. We have to stand our ground.

Where’s your proof Alex and if it’s that bad put a transfer request in. He’s just trying to add further pressure.

We’re pretty short on cover for the role he plays. He’d no doubt benefit from a run in a team but we can’t take that chance.

Lifted this from Facebook, gotta agree and well put: Your whole argument is built on selective memory and flawed logic. Clubs like Villa and Newcastle aren’t struggling because they’re reckless, they’re being limited by a rules designed to preserve the status quo. PSR doesn’t reward good management; it rewards historical advantage. The clubs at the top got there by spending freely before these rules existed, and now they preach restraint to everyone else. That’s not wisdom; it’s hypocrisy. “Sell to buy” sounds noble until you realise the market doesn’t value players equally. Selling a fringe player from a legacy club can fund a marquee signing. Selling a starter from a rising club barely covers a loan. The idea that success is just about selling well ignores the reality that some clubs are allowed to build value while others are punished for trying. The wage and agent fee comparisons; they’re irrelevant without context. Spending similar amounts doesn’t mean equal footing when one club has a squad full of internationals and the other is still clawing its way into Europe. The difference isn’t how well they run it’s how long they’ve been allowed to run without shackles. PSR isn’t about sustainability. It’s about locking in advantage and calling it fair play. Let’s be honest: Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs, United, Liverpool and City, they all built revenues during unregulated spending. They didn’t “sell to buy” their way to the top. They spent to dominate then the rules changed. …You don’t get to moralise about restraint when your rise was built on freedom. That’s not financial wisdom, it’s hypocrisy.

We need to remember that Ashley bought Big Jo in the belief that we’d be able to turn him into a centre forward. We then endured Bruce playing him in that position game after game throwing him under the bus regularly in press conferences. It got to point where Big Jo was just a joke and his career must have been in danger of going down the leagues. He never was and never will be a centre forward.

Brentford can do what they want but you have to feel they’ve reneged on an agreement with the player. It is different to the Isak situation, we had no agreement to sell, we don’t have a replacement and we’re not asking more than twice market value. We can’t be paying silly money as much as it could hurt us.

Oh, I agree we need high tempo and to chasing down from the off but, in a controlled way. Slot will have them rolling around at every opportunity and anything slightly iffy will invite trouble.