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I love Bruno, so I'm pleased we didn't get to cash in on him last summer, even if it launched the PSR chaos of losing Minteh and Anderson and having Vlach dumped on us, as a last minute alternative to losing Gordon. Losing Bruno would have been worse. The whole thing was a mess for sure, but keeping Bruno for me was a "result". The Isak thing going on now is a mess too, but if we keep him and he performs to his undoubted ability, that will be a result too.

If Chelsea, then go for Chalobah. He's pretty good already, and would be better with Eddie's help. Ticks the "right-sided" box too.

Yes, Liverpool went back in for VVD and Allison after "giving up", but both ended up as the following year and as world record fees for their positions. A world record striker fee for Isak in 2026, yeah that might be worth considering. Isak might also have more suitors by then. I doubt Liverpool will be champions again, and they are not favourites for the CL. They do have shorter odds than Real, which seems a bit weird because 15 is much higher than 6.

Don't tell me... It's a "power move" and the 110 million is a "flex"!

Obviously way better than us. We pissed on them in the Carabao final, remember. If nothing else, this should be a wakeup to anyone with Liverpool sympathies or who buy into that "noble club" bull rap.

We survived a season without Tonali. What happens with one player will not bring the club down. He's our player until we choose to sell him.

If this is their first move, I'm confident he stays. A more realistic first bid and I'd be worried. It's easy to say no to tyrekickers.

Good teams and good players make each other look better. We're a good team, so Isak has benefitted, while also taking us up the league. Isak would be even better if we'd had a decent striker to bring on 70 minutes in. And if we could have done that more often by being in commanding positions by then in more games. Isak was seventh fastest to 50PL goals in whatever it is, 35 years. Only Salah and Haarland have scored more since we signed him. That's an objective sign of an elite player. I want a fee that half the people commentating on it think is too high. Every other player out there is now going for a fee that feels far too high. It is nonsensical to suggest Isak, a far better player than Cunha, Pedro, Mbeumo, Madueke, Elanga etc. should not. This needs to be the next chapter in crazy fees, not a charity shop bargain. Otherwise he stays and plays in black and white, hopefully with Wissa coming on with 70 minutes played. We'll deal with any "spit the dummy" problems when we face them, not when they exist in some Liverpool fan's imagination.

It would be piss weak to lower the fee because the player has been unsettled (by rumours from the buyer). Every transfer bid ever made unsettles the player. As for players cracking on after bids, Kane, Gerrard, Suarez, ... It doesn't happen that often because the situation is nearly always the big fish eating the little fish. This Isak situation is a huge fish trying to eat a slightly less huge fish. There are only a few precedents. The "OMG he's so unhappy in his cage" story is coming from the same arseholes on Twitter. It is our choice to believe or not. It is also our choice whether to see ourselves as a slightly less huge fish or a little fish just making up the numbers and sitting there waiting to be preyed upon. I see no need for a club who've just won a cup and are in the CL, after coming close to finishing second, to dive into shit creek just because others are gaslighting us into thinking we're in there already.

We beat Arsenal three times last season and created more chances against them in the one game we lost on their park with Wilson up front. We are not a "mess". Isak may take a dim view of us, but I need to hear if from him himself, not a clickbait merchant.

I suspect so too. Brentford are a data-driven flipper club. Their model breaks down if players don't see them as good for career progression any more. The other flipper club, Brighton, could have got mega bucks for Mac Allister but honoured their agreement to him. It keeps the production line going. Brighton's basic position is that everyone is replaceable.

If we cant buy a striker due to other clubs failing to honour agreements or asking for an unreasonable fee, then we'll just have to bloody well do the same with the striker we have already on a three year deal.

We should charge a fee is high enough for half their fans to think it is too high. That's what they just paid for Ekitike and paid not long ago for Nunez. Delap aside, every other forward has gone for this level of fee this window. Pedro was 60M for five goals from open play. The "take our 120M" posts on Twitter are from people expecting us to be a soft touch. Isak was faster to 50 Premier League goals than Henry, Aguero, and Suarez. There is no need for NUFC or toon fans to talk the player down or come up with reasons for Liverpool to get a bargain. If they want him, they have to pay.

They are gaslighing everyone with the fee. It is not Liverpool's to decide.

Just pay the uefa fine, if that's in reality all it is It seems foolish to just interpret rules at face value if other clubs are getting away with infractions.

We didn't get either of course, but went from Pedro to Ekitike, in my opinion, a step up. Like Ekitike, the next keeper on the list may be playing overseas and may be a step up on Trafford. The same crew will be negotiating the deal, but the target himself may be a better one.

It's funny as fuck but I presume there wasn't anything Baldwards could do either. For the time it takes to make a phone call, he was correct to say we'd bid and were getting the player. Romano must have a good Man City source to slap it down so quickly.

Like Tonali, only at the Leazes End.

Imagine being too good for us but wanting to go to a team Trent, Konate, MacAllister, and Diaz don't want to play for. That's just the ones where it is publicly known. My fear is that this is actually a sweetheart deal for Liverpool to let Salah go to a PIF club in Saudi.

This softens what sounds like the inevitable Isak blow. I prefer Wissa to Pedro and Delap. I would have liked Ekitike, who looks like he has star quality. Use Isak as leverage to get Delap as a development project or a PSG forward behind Wissa, and yeah, deffo not a disaster. No thanks to any players from Liverpool. Don't need Eliott now we have Elanga. I suspect Chris Wood had a temporary drop in finishing due to a loss of confidence. He's on a definite purple patch (i.e., overperforming) at Forest, but he's fundamentally a better player than we got to see.

Nice that its a tournament Liverpool didn't qualify for, probably because we took their CL place two seasons ago. Some Liverpool fans think they knocked the CWC back themselves out of some kind of nobility. I'd take Chalobah, a development forward, Delap or Nkunku, for Eddie to work with, and some wedge, preferably enough for Wissa and Gallagher. Buy Trafford too if there's anything left in the kitty. We must buy Wissa now we need guaranteed goals.

Decent shout. Elvis Costello won't want to go to Chelsea.

Yes, but the whole Twittersphere wants the move and assumes he's going to Liverpool because their fans are the best at clicking on stories. This will sound like a Mackem but we cannot control the media. All we can do is refuse to be gaslit by other team's/fans' propaganda.

He fucking well explored it though!

Lets just hope Liverpool wouldn't finance an Isak move with Salah to Saudi. PIF screwing us over to get their hands on Salah, the player they really want.