Lush Vlad

It’ll be a ‘minor’ injury. He’ll come back looking a bit iffy and then get subbed off again and miss 3 months, is my guess

So fuck. So any player in the future can go on strike and it means we will sell them for well below what they are worth to us and also what is below their market value. When comparing to other players in his position and also similar’ish fees paid in recent times. That would be a shit deal. What’s he going to do? Refuse to play all season and lose loads of money? Buy out his contract? No way we should be selling him at a low price. Our negotiating team have been awful all summer and can’t get much worse. But I’m glad you’re not involved

Horrendous. Not even because it’s another Saudi inspired kit. As I didn’t mind the last couple we had. The green one and then the white third kit. This just looks like a shit keepers shirt and really cheap.

“Aim for £135m.” What?!

You’ve missed the bit off saying he is desperate for Isak to stay. So we wouldn’t have all that money to spend. Sell him next summer when we hopefully have something resembling a competent board.

Nah. I get that to a point. It’s why I hate the often used “leaving Aldi to go and work for Tesco for £3 more an hour” or whatever similarly stupid analogy people use to justify some of the greed

Part of me likes that the club and Howe in particular try and do things the right way. I mean in the eyes of the media and other fans. I don’t think we rock the boat too often or kick up a massive fuss in the press or pre/post game. I suppose that is a good thing with the current questionable at best ownership and everyone being against us. But I wish every now and then we’d bite back and even Howe would call out some of these gutter journo cunts for what they are.

Yep. See my last post on this. All part of their plan. The despicable cunts.

I said earlier in the thread though, I’m not having that as a reason at all. That deal was so far along that they could have been bidding and negotiating already. I don’t follow PSR. But I don’t believe there is anything that means you have to have the available headroom there and then before you’re allowed to sign or even bid for players Just all part of their plan to put more and more pressure on via the media and unsettle Isak even more. All under the guise of trying to appear ‘respectful’ Do me a fucking favour with that shite.

So weird all this. How does it take this long and why would there be daily or even hourly updates like this?! Are they writing it all in hieroglyphics or something?! Utter drivel.

I do think that is always the case with Talksport and the like. But I think there is probably genuinely a part of him who has seen all this before when he was at Palace. So is probably as sick to death of it as we are. Player power, transfer sagas playing out in public, disingenuous agents and whatever else I’ve missed. Must be fucking annoying if you live and breathe that on a daily/weekly basis. No fan of Jordan. But I feel like he has been fairly consistent with stuff like this.

Even more reason why I find it unexciting and a bit ‘meh’. Either we need an upgrade at keeper to change the way we try and play or not. Signing what is possibly a backup keeper when we have so many positions of need doesn’t exactly get the pulse racing

This. Not really one to get excited about. Improvement on Pope in some areas, but not others. Not sure he is better overall. I don’t think he is shit or anything. Although I’m sure I have called him that at some point but not sure him signing is going to change much.

His finishing is far too erratic and he seems to look half arsed with his finishes, at times. But at the same time, I don't think he is anywhere near as bad as people make out. Not worth that much, mind. Even though his numbers are pretty decent. I also thought similar about Nunez at first. But he hasn't improved and if anything, has got worse.

*Insert multiple laughing GIFs here

Just realised our first game is less than 3 weeks away. Bloody hell. No rush lads.

More than likely. They've probably done the despicable Real Madrid move on Palace. I'm sure the Liverpool fans will be fuming about how underhand it is.

The whole thing is laughable and a bit of a mess. It seems the Liverpool end and/or Isak's team are leaking the same story to select client journalists. They supposedly won't bid unless we encourage them to or suggest we are open to offers. Yet we have consistently said 'not for sale' through journos for quite some time?! So are they never going to bid then? Either they want him or they don't. I know it is all brinkmanship and they're trying to get the best deal, whilst also destabilising NUFC and the relationship between Isak, the club, manager, fans etc. But at some point, they will have to actually stump up some cash if they want to sign him. I also don't buy that they have to wait until Diaz goes to Bayern. They could be negotiating now if they wanted and the deal could be dependent on that sale going through, which is pretty much done now, by the sounds of it. I also read they had about £100m to spend without any more sales, which could be bollocks. But either way, they are looking to sell other players, too and I don't believe for one minute they are working on some kind of one in/one out basis. Like you say, if we decide it has all gone too far and there is no way back and then sell Isak for anything less than £150m. Then we will look like a pack of incompetent, useless, spineless cunts and it would set a hell of a precedent. Other clubs, players and agents will take the piss for fun if that happened.

Read that in a Trump voice

Pope has this intermittently.

They’re a special club. It means more. Other fans don’t understand. They’re being respectful here.

It should be banned at all sporting events Never much liked it. But it’s so over-played. I know there are Yank sports teams that have always played it. But was it the boxing over here that made it take off?

Superb. That last pen was a belter.

£300k a week.

The Michael Owen special.