Smal

can't see Villa wanting to sell. He's the weakest part of their team but fuck knows who plays right back in his place.

is Henry Winter friends with Reuben from his time at the times and the telegraph or something? Why's he doing that? civil wor ffs

offer Alvarez whatever he wants

Hope: Eddie Howe’s wish has always been to reintegrate Isak into his squad, believing it would be possible if the transfer deadline passed with him still on Tyneside. That challenge has now got a whole lot harder, after Isak went public with claims of ‘broken relationships’ and ‘broken promises’. But what is mystifying those close to the club is that his relationships with Howe, the coaching staff and his team-mates have never been broken, and nor have there been promises of allowing him to leave. His gripe, they assume, is the withdrawal of what he believed was a contract promise made by former co-owner Amanda Staveley in spring of last year. She believed Isak was worth and was owed a pay increase, even if an offer was never made or the finer details discussed. When Staveley left Newcastle, against her wishes, and a new hierarchal structure was formed, new sporting director Paul Mitchell told Isak and his camp the club would not discuss a deal because he had four years to run and was already among the top earners. This was true, but Staveley’s thinking was that a new contract would keep Isak happy, reward his performance and avoid a scenario such as the one that has played out this summer.

a lovely degree of sass in that last sentence

reads like a chatgpt statement to me, like

are you all right mate?

yeah, I don’t really trust Eales and/or Mitchell not to have fucked it up. it doesn’t justify any of this though. Poor Eddie, man.

don’t really buy this. Doesn’t make sense that the club wouldn’t offer him a new deal after they gave Bruno, Gordon, Joelinton pay rises.

I wonder if we get a club statement tomorrow.

deliberately trying to unsettle things before we play… Liverpool as well fuck right off you cunt

why not just say what happened instead of facebook mam-ing it u k hun??

decision should be entirely up to Lascelles imo. Think he has earned that.

Osula is a winger as much as Gordon is imo. Striker is not his position.

No, got booed by his own fans. A lot of them not happy with him having jumped ship and spent the two seasons they had in the championship away on loan - https://motleedsnews.com/matchday/leeds-united-fans-turn-on-jack-harrison-after-unseen-moment-vs-everton/

Jack Harrison got booed onto the pitch last night by his own fans. It happens.

I'm starting to think this. Ramsey and Barnes can cover left wing. I trust Howe to coach the movements into Gordon, but it doesn't seem close with him yet sadly. We're going to need to reintegrate Isak pretty quickly once the window ends.

he's out with a cruciate ligament injury he picked up in March. So I wouldn't have thought he'd be available until ~October at the earliest?

this Leeds team look a bit too technical for Longstaff to be honest. He's only going to be useful in games against the sides that dominate Leeds I think.

Vlahovic is very average

Nkunku is 28 this year. Would need to be a low fee.

proper u ok hun behaviour. He's 28 years old, man . Move on.

I know everybody hates him now but there’s no need for that level of revisionism. Isak is very fast.

looking at the available strikers I’m thinking Jackson is the best option. It’s an absolutely tragic situation, this Wissa for anything above £40m is just a big nope.

I think I’d want any prospective striker from the portuguese league to be scoring 3 a game before we made a move for them tbh.