The Prophet

He's clearly stayed home to sign his new contract. Stop laughing at the back.

It's pretty obvious what the issue is, we have a gaping vacuum in the club from Eddie up to the board.

100%. I wonder if that's what's happened.

Say he does want to leave. What's the play? Ask him to stay on another year and in return we don't price him out of a move next summer?

Best case scenario: he genuinely has a muscle injury and they're worried training in high humidity might inflame it. Worst case scenario: he's agitating for a move. It could also be a little from column A and a little from B. Whatever way you look at it, it's not great.

It's a strange situation. If he is genuinely injured, which I'm doubtful of, it makes very little sense to leave him at home. Unless of course the injury is much worse than is being reported. If he is unsettled though, you'd think his agent would be briefing everyone and his dog. Either way, we're three weeks away from the start of the campaign and ar present Osula is our only available striker. We can't have another week pass by with zero transfer activity.

If he does leave, its absolutely essential it's not to a Premier League club.

Still maintain there's no reason for him to stay at home, unless he's genuinely unsettled. Whichever way you look at it, it's a shambles we're going on our pre-season tour with Osula as our only available striker.

Aye, there's no reason for him not to go, unless he's pushing for a move.

Now that is worrying!

Didn't realise Burnley's PSR deadline was July 31st. Should finally get clarity on this over the next week at least.

Pope was getting back to his best towards the end of last season, but he's still terrifying with the ball at his feet.

To fair, his next club could make or break him.

Still not sure what to make of Sesko. The definition of a player that makes the difficult things look easy, but the easy things look difficult.

Gutted is a bit strong. It'd feel like an overpay for sure though.

He's a tricky one to value. 19 non - penalty goals last season and would fit us like a glove. Plus we're getting into desperation territory. At the same he's 28 and has two years on his contract. Good job it's not my money or my job to put a figure on these things.

They always have been, they're just reported/not reported depending on the agenda being pushed (see Ekitike).

I think we'll end up going there, out of sheer necessity more than anything else.

I'm still very confident Isak stays this summer, I'm less confident he signs a contract than I was a month ago.

We wouldn't.

I bet Ornstein stinks of Richard Hughes tonight. "Sign off with YNWA, Fab would." "Would Hugo ONLY wanted Liverpool do?"

Shouldn't stop him from travelling though. He has no reason not to, unless he's from planet soft cunt.