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Maybe that was the mistake, we went fishing in the same pond as the cartel where we currently can't compete on wages, maybe should have stuck with next tier down and relied on Eddie polishing some diamonds, it's worked very well so far.

50 years growth, they were financially doped in the 60's/70's made them what they are. Edit - oops thought you meant the scouse

10-15% of any capital gain (per a Spanish/Basque reports) so not a huge chunk.

£300k is market rate, the scouse are reportedy paying Ekitike £270k, Isak is worth way more than the frenchie.

And on the other hand some bleat about not chucking an extra £5/£10 million on players. We want to progress, nowt will get cheaper/free.

We never agreed a fee with his club, until that was done him/his agent can't answer definitively the will you sign question.

As my post said, the negotiating team do, which is who matters.

The only people who know what is going on are the negotiating teams, for our part if we thought the deal was dead we'd walk away as soon as that became apparent. To keep at it, we MUST be getting some positivity back.

There were no reports yesterday that the deal had advanced that I recall 🤷‍♂️

He's regurgitating shite.

They regurgitate what thay are paid to report without any thought of validation that's not journalism it's being a shill.

The reports are placed to generate attention for certain players by agents primarily and some clubs. They do this to create interest and they get paid to do it - shills

Their sources who pay them to make aforesaid reports. Utter shills.

That'll teach me to read more than the first sentence.

We'll do that if we get to a point we don't think this can be done.

Absolutely not, we should tell them to fuck off AND when/if we do sell Isak it must be abroad, unless he's 30 and were moving him on.

That'll be bollocks, no way we'll have gone as far as we have after discussion with his reps if that's what he thinks, why'd they even talk to us.

£125 Million outlay is £25 Million of our budget in PSR terms (due to amortisation). It's well doable, obviously wages on top and we have to cover it next year etc. But we got £30 Mill for Kelly/Miggy so it's basically free 😂.

Dropped is a hangover from the days of one sub on the bench it's a worthless descriptor for anything other than if a player was "dropped" from the team and not included in the next matchday squad these days. It's a squad game with usually 14-15 players seeing the pitch every game.

Nailed on.

It's the bots and the algorithm that are the real problem.

Eddie won't pick a side based on last seasons performance or "ooh play the new kid" he'll do it based on the needs of the game who's doing the business in training. He'll pick what he considers is the team likely best suited to win the game.

Wouldn't touch him, given his rapeutation.

Same every year, season ends, transfer hysteria begins but everyone and their uncle is away on holiday (unless you're skint Man U who piss off to get humiliated in the far east) so nothing happens for a couple/few weeks. It's the only break they get, especially this year with no proper tournaments going on and yet folks expect it to be like black Friday for footballers.

You didn't need one, registration was open to all on Saturday.