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horrific interior design

none of these mention how we’d be selling a player to a direct rival who could score 30+ goals a season for them for the next 7 years

wouldn’t sell to Liverpool in any circumstance. He can join them on a free in 3 years if he must.

a goal or assist every 260 minutes is really not very good at all. Even if someone plays every minute (which doesn’t happen) of a 38 game season it’s 13 g+a. Extremely average. doubt he develops much beyond what he is now either.

it’s possible that Isak has “left it so late” because he’s been waiting to see what we could do in the transfer market and well…we’ve fucked it up in the most spectacular fashion.

no mention of a source or anything in Hope’s article. Not even like “a club insider informed us” or anything, just “we can reveal”. shit journalism either way

we have to keep him and offer him the money, not least because the striker market is completely dry - especially after we’ve missed out on 3 or 4 targets there already. We will really struggle without his goals. only Tonali comes close to justifying wanting some kind of parity with Isak on wages at the moment imo.

if it's £30m and you get 3 good seasons from him it's well worth it imo.

go and touch grass pal. Spending your time signing up to message boards to wind up other fans is absolutely pathetic behaviour.

somehow they’ve made more of a story out of this than it would’ve been if he’d just gone and not played

I don’t think this one will happen but I’d be ok with that. Does seem we have plenty of spend available though.

incredible signing

Heeeey Anthony Elanga Ooh ah I wanna knoooooow how you scored that goal just imo

yeah sorry, for some reason I completely missed that sentence I love Joelinton and he is important in a tonne of games, but he can also be pretty useless in certain games/scenarios. Being missing a lot is a bit of a problem really. I wouldn’t mind seeing us go big on someone to compete with/replace him. But we also need to rotate and actually play Miley so that he can develop.

Joelinton also misses quite a lot of games too, as well as regularly playing through injury

be disappointing if we don’t take that. Not gonna get more from elsewhere.

Isak 9, Elanga 14?

don’t really rate it at all but Howe has more or less a 100% record of proving me wrong so

get in! what a summer we are having!

we’ve been lucky the scoreline isn’t embarrassing here. Awful since the goal got disallowed.

we seem incapable of doing anything quietly at the moment, which just makes me think that the agents involved are doing their best to get better moves for their clients.

I don’t rate Elanga very highly either but this doesn’t mean much. All players in low possession (and Forest had the least possession in the league iirc) sides look like this on fbref, and the opposite is the case for players in possession dominant teams. Of course you don’t play many passes or make many carries when your team doesn’t have the ball. It would be useful if they made these metrics so they were possession-adjusted.

this would be good for us, man

he was really bad, yeah. One of the worst I’ve seen play for us. He didn’t even try to defend crosses and was responsible for a goal going in practically every game for a while. Going forward he just… didn’t. Always passed it back or 5 yards to the side. He never had any confidence at all.