Mattoon

Surely a ceiling is measured against the potential of the players rather than their current standing? That statement is tantamount to saying Woldemade will never reach the heights of Isak, whereas no one truly knows that yet. Maybe the first 11 is weaker because, as you rightly point out, we've lost a world class striker and replaced him with an unknown, that I would accept.

Eddie Howe

You can keep your faux gratitude and gratefulness and you can shove your posturing respect you narcissistic rat freak, I hope you fail spectacularly!

He makes a fair analysis of what Woldemade brings to us but in a completely unnecessarily convoluted and infantile way, could have and should have been a single paragraph

No doubt something with a lot of throatal noises and phlegm attached, only understanding the words Eeeeeysacckckckcckkkkk and Ekkkkckkiteeeeeekkckkckkkceyy

I think its obvious that the strategy was to keep Isak at all costs but it would be foolish not to look into fallback options with stikers such as Ekitike and Sesko, both of which I think were the long term replacements for Isak rather than short term with a view to moving him on next summer when there would be more big clubs with an eye on the situation and money in their pockets. What transpired was a scorched earth tactic from Isak that led the club to realise that we either try and compete on 3 fronts until January with one striker or we allow him his move and we make the best of the situation. The latter makes the most sense from a purely business stand point, personally, much like others, I'd have let him rot, but that's an emotional reaction that has an element of self harm. I think in the long run it will be apparent that the club made the right choice, Woldemade is a calculated risk but if he lives up to his potential we'll all soon forget about this rat and start to worry about losing him instead!

Compare and contrast to the rat skinny judas, makes me glad he's gone, more Joelintons please

Incredibly ill advised and quite thick of him, he's not going to endear himself to the fan base with that, personally don't care, but not a good look for Gordon that

Botman is clearly a classy defender and potential to be one of the best but his injury record is becoming suspect and until he can get on the pitch regularly we can't just be throwing more money at him to warm the treatment table. As for his social media activity, who cares so long as he's committed and playing well?

When life gives you Lemmens

I'll be doubly hate watching the dippers now, can't wait to watch him fluff that first 1v1 on the keeper and hear the scouse groans while Isak's groin makes an audible popping sound and he's out for the best part of 6 games again. Anyway, onwards and upwards, I'm excited to see Wissa terrorise defenses and Woltemade to play his way into the starting 11 and prove he's even better than the plastic scouse rat. Good riddance.

Inject it!

Bwahahahahahaha that is all

Fwiw teams have up until 9pm tonight if a transfer sheet is sent over to PL after 5pm

They're gonna turn him into a world beater aren't they?

All this talk of CL and cup wins meaning nothing to our pull, I'd argue that our profile increase has brought bigger sales values to our fringe players much like you see at the usual 6. £30m is crazy money for Osula.

Have you seen some of Wissa's goals from last season? There's a fair few rockets from outside the area.

Judgement can't be accurately made until Woltemade gets his debut but you've got to imagine Wissa and Woltemade is better than Isak and Wilson

They've had our eyes out here but you can't really put a price on PL goals and we're desperate, the price is for someone in an office to worry about. Feeling more relaxed than I did at 4am

I really couldn't care less about the bean counting, just buy what we need and let's smash these perpetual victims at their place and best them in another final.

Mate I've got to go to work with one today and my daughters boyfriend is one too, I'm surrounded by them in the North West so it's not going to be an easy week!

Quite ironic that a rat should join the bin dippers

We need a shot in the arm today, a proven PL striker and an AM and its Isak who?

He got 20+ goals last season, we may have sold him at the height of his value, I could be clutching at straws here but there's no guarantee he hits the same numbers this season with his injury record and his.patchy performances.

13 hours left to put this right, I have a feeling we have one of JSL or Wissa lined up and if we do then as gutting as this is we're probably in a much better position than last season.