GideonShandy

And if not then almost certainly by Monday night.

Rhymes with "harder." Not with "spade."

The media bandwagon of "He's already gone to Liverpool" rolls on, but our position should still be "Written transfer request and £150 million offer, or he stays and you can try again in the next window."

Bring him home.

Its been fixed now.

I assume the "we are ready" thing relates to the loyalty bonus. If we invite a bid, that probably strengthens the Rat's argument that, strictly speaking, he didn't request this transfer.

Is it really any worse than, say, "wanker" or "cunt"? To me it's just a generic term of abuse whose offensiveness depends entirely on context. "Motherfucker" might be another example.

Bayern supposedly working on a loan with option to buy Nicolas Jackson. I imagine that Isak as a better option would be in their thoughts, especially now that we've taken Big Nick.

Or adapt their old Kanu classic. He's big! He's white! His facial hair is shite! Woltemade, Woltemade.

Bring him back to the wheel, Sir Jim. Edit: And maybe Giggs too.

Ideal is if Bayern swoop in for him.

He could have signed for Bayern But he said "Nein, scheiss drauf."

I agree. Some smartarse edited it in as a wind-up. It's gone now.

"Loyalty bonus' my arse. Should tell him we won't sell him unless he pays us a disloyalty penalty.

"Nick Woltemade (born 14 February 2002) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart and the Germany national team. He is about to sign for Newcastle allowing Alexander Isak to leave." Wikipedia 2 minutes ago.

Happy Anniversary Alex. Cunt.

Nah, time to try Schar in midfield.

Sociopath. Feels no shame and is contemptuous of people who do.

Pretty sure it's a brothel.

That's exactly the surrender that Liverpool and Isak are hoping for and it's absolutely the last thing we should do.

Fuck that. We should not sell at a discount under any circumstances whatever. We should not sell at all unless he hands in a transfer request, and then not for less than £150 million.

This is right. The lack of a release clause in Isak's contract wasn't some careless oversight by his agent. The three most basic terms in a player's contract are salary, contract length and release clause. And they're related. A club will agree to a higher salary if the player agrees to a long contract and a high release clause (or no release clause at all.) Isak took the conservative option of a guaranteed long-term salary that was high by the standards of the time, reputedly triple what Sociedad was paying him, instead of a deal that paid less but offered a quicker and easier out. Now he has buyer's remorse and his agent orchestrates this chorus of righteous indignation about how unfair it all is.

Maybe "Didn't really give much of a shit whether we made the top 5 or not" is closer to the truth.

Spurs should be telling Wissa about how other Belgian players like Vertonghen, Alderweireld and Mousa Dembele have historically thrived there.