Pilko

We're running out of weeks to piss away on targets. Can't wait to see this one go up the spout after 5-10 days of monitoring, agreeing terms etc before Bayern come in.

24 goals in 65 PL appearances (59 starts). Why is everyone determined to talk about this bloke like he's got absolutely nothing about him? It's a good record that. £80m+ is absolutely fucking mental money and if we're using the lion's share of the Isak money on him, it's a really poor way to spend it. I'd not want us to go north of £50m-ish for Jackson, but I think he's better than most seem to see him and Eddie will only make him better.

If Osula isn't at the stage where we can rely on him to start 3-4 games after 18 months at the club, I'd begin to question what the point of him is.

I think Jackson is decent and could become very good under Eddie, but £80m howay man. Good thing there's another 3 or 4 weeks for us to throw bids around for every single Premier League striker with a pulse.

Let's offer 20, sit and wait for a week, get told no and then dolefully stand around shrugging like a disaffected Frenchman.

Regardless of the Isak stuff or the various opinions about who's fault it is, the target lists, how we've operated etc. allowing ourselves to go into the start of the season without a fit established striker is a fucking disgrace. All summer to get someone better than Wilson and we're 10 days away from the season starting with nobody even close to coming in. Hundreds of players in the world who'd be an obvious upgrade and we've chosen not to act on it. Absolute negligence.

Can't wait for this one to inevitably fall off and leave us with fucking Gordon through the middle at Villa Park.

We'll all qualify for a fucking SAGA Holiday by the time this cunt chooses his next club.

Sesko must be the biggest fucking attention seeker going, make the frigging decision to go to Man U and end up at Galatasaray on loan within 18 months ffs so we can move on.

Premier League Winners: Liverpool Runners Up: Chelsea 3rd-6th: Man City, Arsenal, Newcastle, Aston Villa Relegation: Burnley, Sunderland, Brentford Overachievers: Leeds (13th) Underperformers: West Ham (17th) Top Goal Scorer: Salah (21) Break Out Year: Rio Ngumoha Season to Forget: Man U, Liam Delap, Hugo Ekitike PFA Player of the Year: Wirtz PFA Young Player of the Year: Jamie Gittens Manager of the Year: Slot First manager to quit/be sacked: Amorim Championship Winners: Coventry Runners Up: Ipswich Play-Offs: Southampton, Sheff United, Leicester, Derby Relegation: Sheff Wed, Hull, QPR Newcastle United Where will we finish?: 5th Top Goalscorer: good question Top Assister: Elanga Season to forget: Joe Willock How will we fare in the Champions League: Quarters Domestic League One Promotion: Luton, Barnsley, Lincoln League One Relegation: Burton, Leyton Orient, Exeter, Wycombe League Two Promotion: MK Dons, Chesterfield, Bradford, Bromley League Two Relegation: Harrogate, Newport National League Promotion: Carlisle, FGR FA Cup: Manchester City League Cup: Chelsea EFL Trophy: Cardiff Europe La Liga winner: Barcelona Serie A winner: Inter Milan Bundesliga winner: Bayen Munich European Competitions Champions League winner: PSG Europa League winner: Roma Conference League Winner: AZ Alkmaar General World Player of the Year: Doue World Young player: Yamal

Jackson's better than most will give him credit for. There's this weird thing that's existed at Chelsea for over 10 years now that strikers will go there, score somewhere in the region of 1-in-2.5ish games and then be ridiculed as utter shite and go on to do well elsewhere. He's got 24 goals in 65 PL appearances. I wouldn't be doing cartwheels at us signing him when you look at some of the other exciting names we've been linked with but I wouldn't be disappointed either. I think Eddie could improve him a lot and he'd fit the press system really well.

Balls out of the bath on this bid, Lynn.

Hopefully it jolts us into buying a centre mid. He cannot be relied on whatsoever, for fitness or consistent form.

Diego S 4-4-2 with a front 6: Elanga - Tonali - Bruno - Joe Isak - Sesko

My proudest moment at Newcastle United wasn’t when I won the Carabao Cup, or got us to the Champions League with minimal expenditure. No. It was a young Greek goalkeeper, from Nottingham, hardly played a game of football. But he came to me and went, “Mr. Howe, will you let me be third choice keeper to Nick Pope and Martin Dubravka?”, so.... Didn’t happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish. He was rubbish.

Cisse's goal of the season volley at Stamford Bridge too. EDIT: I then looked five posts up.

Cabaye I think? When Arsenal slapped in a lowball bid for him just before the season opener at Man City

Very spooky as I was about to go with this:

Double check the list of a dozen players we want haven't retired from football yet.

Thiaw again sound, let's wait til someone else is interested first though. Far too soon to try and get him without that.

Muniz would be a good replacement for Wilson, in isolation. If we're trading Isak and ending up with Wissa or Jackson as well as him it's then it looks like a much poorer signing.

I'd expect Pope to start at Villa Park, Ramsdale to get his first start in a cup game of some kind & depending how Pope has performed up to then & how Ramsdale does when he plays, he might take over as #1 after that.

Be good to get a deal done to stop the rot, as it were. Don't think the player is that convincing, but doing it as a loan protects us and it won't impact our spending on more important positions too much. Hope he proves me and a lot of others wrong and turns out to be a decent signing.

I'd like to see him up on a cherry picker getting his photo taken with the Gallowgate pigeon.