Pandamninator

I wish I had the skills to do that (photoshop, not the supporting a hate crime part)

Reminds me of us in 2015 tbh. Buy a bunch of young "wonderkids" with little to no seasoning and no cohesive plan, at prices that might have been impressive five seasons earlier but in reality are now on the cheaper end of the scale for top end talent.

Is it? In the NBA maybe due to the impact a single star can have, but in the other big leagues player power has never been weaker. NFL players contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on. The majority of the money is not guaranteed and all but a few QBs can be cut at any time with little to no penalty. Meanwhile Baseball owners are openly colluding to suppress the free agent market for anyone over the age of 27 and no one can stop them.

"When Isak isn't on the screen, all the other commentators should be asking where's Isak"

Dalglish already on the blower ordering the t-shirts in support of the lads doing the racism as we speak

Rofl. Name me a single transfer saga where that has happened with a player of note.

Yep - the rational ones are no longer to bat away the comparisons to Sterling or Coutinho. And they have been burnt enough that despite them puffing out their little chests, they are still at the mercy of the Bayern and Real Madrid tier of super clubs.

I was a big fan of the logic, but the Bundesliga and Serie A both start a week after the Premier League - so why would they restrict their windows to suit the English calendar? What they should've done is allow English clubs to both buy and sell with foreign clubs past the deadline (instead of just the latter).

As soon as they discover fire, the LFC massive troglodytes are going to burn this one at the stake.

The only two young players of merit so far are Miley and Hall. Miley has had a bit of bad luck on the injury front, but despite the concern at the time, is anyone going to question the end result for Hall?

We selling Hall now as well?

Nagglesmann mostly played him as part of 2 up front, and also moved him out wide regularly. So naturally Brucie stuck him up front entirely on his own and had Dubravka pump long balls at his head for 90 minutes.

Looking up at what the movement out of the corner of his eye is? Are we actually giving two teams coming in the tunnel the Zapruder film treatment? Is Dalglish on the grassy knoll as the second bid?

He was - the stories at the time said we went for Isak much earlier in that window but it stalled due to his initial wage demands being mental. Guess they got a reality check when no one else swooped in.

Depends on what has changed - prior the buzz was all Arsenal, which Isak didn't seem fussed by, and is more of a sideways step (might be some Newcastle bias showing there though). The reporting which others in this thread have dug up from May was he was staying... which indicates the plan was to wait a 12 months, ball out in the Champions League and get the attention of a big fish next year. Liverpool coming in now changed that.

Oh, that I agree with. Which is why I've never bought into the "Isak had the Liverpool crest tattooed on his bicep the night after the League Cup and has been sabotaging us for months" narrative. Liverpool and his agent got into his ear at the start of July, no doubt promising riches, trophies and that a leaderless Newcastle would roll right on over once the pressure was applied.

It's a pretty stock standard transfer drama if you look at what's gone on at other clubs. We've just been so shit for so long that we had hardly any players worth a saga, and those we did, Fatty was transparent about shipping them out once the price was met.

I mean... that just looks like two captains being briefed by the referee before they head out.

Serves us right for taking advantage of Liverpool's generosity. After all - they could've just done that for Wirtz as well, but they voluntarily paid Leverkusen 116 million because they're such nice fellas. #YNWA

I'm buzzing for the inevitable conclusion of Isak going full Odemwingie and being stopped by Anfield security trying to enter the carpark without a transfer going through.

Delap, Pedro, Ekitike, Sesko, Wissa.

There is truth to it - the club were the one who leaked it as part of their "Paul Mitchell was a useless bald twat" dossier. Does miss the context that Mitchell was stuffed into a bin and wheeled out to the curb, with the same stories also stated the club tried to rectify it, both before and after this little theatre became public.

I just love this notion that there is this magical hack that only those darned clever Scousers have thought of... as if the likes of PSG and Real Madrid have been handing out billions in transfer fees like a bunch of morons.

If he's money hungry, than starring in a World Cup held in North America will be very high on his agenda

Name a single example of a high profile (or even medium tier) transfer saga resulting in a player downing tools for a whole year.