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Haven't had any credible links with him, even at the relatively low price bandied about. Which indicates that our new technical datanonce-in-chief, "Suds" Sudarshan, who was responsible for statsnoncing him at Atalanta, hasn't given our scouting team the "we must buy him" klaxon.

Rudy Galetti is that chicken man? If so, he hasn't accurately predicted shit since forever.

Yes, that's exactly a "James Trafford Gazump"! Newcastle offer 27 mil and Trafford was on the verge of signing. Man City (who have that clause) matches our 27 mil and Trafford had to go to them.

Liverpool should also be extremely cautious about dealing with gangsters, crooks and overall cunts, to be honest.

Left-field suggestion - make a bid for Wood . Being a Nottingham Forest Plus is no bad thing and same as Wissa, Forest may consider selling an OAP asset.

Or if he gets perma-crocked due to a "friendly challenge" during training by a pissed-off colleague, tbf.

Overspend this season hedging that we'd bank 100-120 mil for Isak next summer, possible?

Yeah for me, it's more about not rewarding his agent and Liverpool, for their destructive behaviour at this point. Saudi, the continent, I don't care if he goes. Just Anywhere But Liverpool.

Basically what you're saying is that Chelsea has an option to "James Trafford Gazump" the Scousers, which I desperately hope will happen

Just bumping up this tweet, by none other than David Ornstein, made on the very day Isak supposedly told the club (for the SECOND time), that he had wanted to leave. It’s all lies, these latest ‘revelations’. The scoop of the end of the season, and he only tells us about it yesterday?

The one time Chelsea could’ve steamed in for a gazump, and they don’t.

He’s just wishing it into reality, he certainly has fuck all from our club. Again I hope Yasir is watching this, and his face is getting redder and redder with rage at each passing sound bite put out by this chancer.

So have Newcastle “given positive signs” despite being held to an ultimatum by the player, not able to sign any replacements and entering the tail end of the transfer window? Shameless fucking parasite, I hope he steps on a Portuguese Man ‘O War on the beach.

Got a chuckle out of me

Not sure what leverage Palace have here. Guehi won't want to go anywhere else, what's the bargaining position? Either they take what Liverpool is offering, even if it's 10 mil, or they'd just wait til next year and get him for free. If Guehi was willing to consider anywhere else to play, we could hoy a bid in and disrupt the scousers.

I'd grudgingly give Glasner his credit. Won his club's first silverware ever in its history (and now the Shield), and that was after their best player got sold to Bayern. Eddie's score for coaching acumen and achievements are scandalous, though.

Would love it if he were photoshopped into the content, just to drive home the point.

We take ages to scout people and ages to sign people. Rightly so, because with PSR, we can't afford to buy flops. Trouble is that none of the abovementioned strikers have been scouted properly, and we'd take three weeks to sign each player. Meaning that it would either be impossible to get a great striker in in time, or we'd be doing a panic buy putting us in a horrendous position in both the short-term and for the long-term value of the asset. Isak should have started his shenanigans much earlier, is the moral of the story. Not halfway in, when we were on the verge of signing his supposed strike partner/replacement.

It should be their first bid of 110 million pounds, plus the 53 million Euros that our owners gave them for Nunez, tbf, making it very close to 150 million pounds. But only if we get replacements in first.

It doesn't matter one bit if it were a joke. They'd be deadly serious in playing it up too.

Playing right into their hands. Next plan of attack "Alexander Isak says he now FEARS returning to Newcastle after receiving disgusting threats." Happened with the Mackems and Didier NDong, btw.

A bit of a silly time to bid, IYAM. We haven't even signed a replacement for Wilson, let alone Isak. Unless we think a 4-4-2 with Osula and a big bag of cash money upfront will score us the goals to keep us in the top 5 this season.

130 will sting after Carlos Baleba goes to the Mancs for 112 and Wirtz cost 117. There are any number of midfielders. Strikers are rare as hen's teeth.

Others have pointed it out, but it bears repeating: 1) Ornstein had himself tweeted quite emphatically "Isak will stay at Newcastle after they get to the UCL". This tweet was on the last day of the season, so apparently two weeks after Isak told Howe he wanted out? 2) During Bruno's "release clause" scare last summer, Bruno was not involved in any of the pre-season kit release media materials. This indicates our club won't waste time doing media and comms content with a player who may not be around for the start of the season. This year, just a month ago, Alexander Isak featured front and centre of Newcastle United's 2025/2026 new kit release content. Ornstein and Isak and Liverpool and Romano are launching a coordinated attack on our club in a last-ditch effort to force an exit. There isn't any pretense anymore and lies are accepted currency.

I believe the NYC Company sold its stake in FSG more than a decade ago, although they did pitch in to set up the conglomerate. Still the links, however tenuous, are there.