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If we hear a report that Isak won’t play for us again and only wants Liverpool then half the board would be on suicide watch and the assumption is we’d cave at £120m. But the opposite scenario and we’re incompetent mugs who are wasting our time.

I’ll never understand why people think negotiations play out in the way we hear about them.

Yeah, if there was a handshake agreement between Wissa and Brentford then we would have known about it. If that is true then our offer is more than fair.

The silver lining is if we can’t get Wissa then I assume we’ll dig in even further on Isak.

Eddie’s Isak quotes provide some comfort but it also feels like we’re in a very tricky spot to do any business until that has a resolution.

I have a feeling a Super League will form and dissolve within our lifetimes.

I pretty much always support players getting paid and the decisions that come with it, but if he gives up Premier League and Champions League football in the prime of his career then all respect is gone. And he'd be villain #1 if he was then at Liverpool or Chelsea 12 months later.

Repeat winners get an extra £100m. One-off winners receive 100 quid and a financial audit.

Top 4 make the playoffs + 2 clubs with the most league titles. Best of three series all played at the home of club with higher annual revenue.

You have to go back 55 years to get to 10 now. Barring significant rule changes I think the answer is quite clearly no (or barely).

No, no it hasn’t. Absent them paying north of £175m that isn’t anywhere near the best option.

Sorry but that needs to be a hard no. Tell his agent to go get offers from PSG or Barcelona.

No, not saying it would be in this case. He has a chance to get far richer, play for one of the biggest clubs in the world (regardless of which one it is), win more trophies, and become more famous. It’s not exactly surprising he’s interested.

No, it’s an average of transfer profit over the three years. So an Isak sale would count in 2025/26, 26/27, and 27/28 and then drop out. A £150m profit (which isn’t what we’d get; probably more like £100m best case) is effectively £50m a year for three years.

It’s money, ambition, and prestige. I’m not saying Isak is a total passenger in this but athletes get influenced by agents, family members, and hangers on all the time. In a lot of cases it leads to poor career decisions.

It’s not agent gone rogue. It’s agent relentlessly pushing for him to move on, triple his wages, etc. I really struggle to hold much ill will towards him. We fucked up by not pushing a contract extension any time in the last 12 months. I am going to be very annoyed if we just roll over here. Selling him to a PL club should be out of the question unless the price reaches absurd levels.

Just saw a Liverpool fan talking about a dynamic front three of Isak, Ekitike, and Salah and I want to die.

I think in the last week or so the Isak situation is likely why we’ve come to a standstill. We can’t really do anything until that’s resolved.

In an ideal world. That’s not the world we’re in anymore.

I still think he’ll stay largely because I’m not sure who is paying up. But this suddenly feels in play: Sell Isak for £140m Buy Guehi £55m Gallagher £40m Trafford £35m TBD striker £50-60m

Once you're into the £40m+ range there just have to be other options.

If you want to better display how it impacts our actually available squad on the pitch it probably looks more like that.

The kindest summary of Mitchell's tenure you can give, with the info we have now, is he came into a complicated PSR situation with an imbalanced and aging squad and a transfer policy that could have used some rethinking, but he did so with minimal respect for the manager or the tremendous progress that had been made in the preceding 2.5 years. It was a situation that called for skillful relationship building and evolution, but he went for brash, new boss in town reset. And against a lesser manager he may have the full reins of the club right now. Fortunately that's not the case.

Unfortunately qualifying for the CL+ the CWC has put them on pretty firm footing again. My dream of them imploding is certainly paused, if not outright dead.

I’m very confused what made you think the sky was the limit as if there are no rules.