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Whatever keeps Isak here

The fee is already too much, considering he splits opinion. Let's just keep Isak, thank you.

Excited to see who first comes up with a 'Sesko Value' t-shirt logo.

I suppose going from Trafford to Ramsdale unlocked another £25-30m that allows two big forwards.... ....need to stop that line of thought

Hope we don't, otherwise Isak is gone

Maybe Liverpool try to sweet-talk Leipzig into only accepting our Sesko bid, gifting them Elliott for a reasonable price. Something like that.

At least we have hope tonight. Hope that maybe our higher-ups have some backbone and genuinely did scare them off with a forceful no. Still think a second bid comes in from the beloved, always respectful, people’s champion of clubs, mind.

They'll bid again, it's now a question of whether they'll make a third bid. Hopefully we tell the beloved, respectful Liverpool to fuck off because we have no reason to sell.

It needs both £150m and Sesko to say yes..... so surely it won't happen?

Been away for the past few days (brother's wedding) in this beautiful, football-less nirvana. Anyway, this summer has pretty much numbed me to football. I feel truly done. For work, fine. But a passion? No thanks. So where are we at: Liverpool have stalled a bit, he's training with Sociedad because the others are in Asia, and he only leaves if we sign Sesko?

Is the Dibling hype some sort of forum in-joke?

The way fees are inflating year by year, what we'd now call £125m will probably be £150m next summer.

Because the bad news is normally true, these days.

I think Isak's rental development has finally taken me to the 'he's going' train of thought It's those little ones that usually get me. Because the house stuff is legit, right?

£135m would get laughed out the door. Yous desperately want him? Pay the fee. Don't want him that much? Then fine, fuck you, he's got 3 more years on his contract. From then, it looks bad for Isak to down tools. I think it's out-of-character anyway. But would Liverpool (or better) come back next summer if he's conducted himself like this? Sweden could qualify for the World Cup too.

Aye, the £60m Isak fee felt insane at the time. Turned out well.

A different level of desperation surely

Like when Mitoma and Adingra were at Union SG

A few more quiet days and hopefully this fizzles out, though I suppose that Diaz announcement will turn Romano on.

Jackson shouldn't be getting the same hatred as Darwin and DCL, like. Although yes, ideally it'd be someone else.

Still cannot get my head around this one. Why would Xhaka even use the word Sunderland in a sentence, never mind join? Madness.

Not entirely convinced by Sesko, so don't know how to feel about Man Utd's interest. Does missing out on Sesko increase our reluctance to sell Isak? That'd be good. But it doesn't sounds like Man Utd are close to the Antony/Garnacho/Sancho sales that are needed first.

Burn this club to the ground, please

One worry is that £150m is the online fans' fee but the board have a different opinion, like even £130m would smash the all-time British transfer record by quite a bit. It's certainly a big moment for the Saudi owners, though. To test how serious they are.

Liverpool are big, but still behind quite a few others. We finished ahead of them in 22/23 and just beat them in a cup final. They're a rival, I'm disappointed that he's gagging to join... them?!?! If we can hold on for another week, I think it won't happen. Too close to the season's start.