Tiotes Witch Doctor

I say we go back in at 25 mil for a laugh.

Yeah, the writing was on the wall as soon as he wanted to "explore his options" it was just a matter of when, personally think we will settle on about 140 mil plus hefty achievable add ons.

If we bring in Wissa aswell it covers the bases if he's not immediately up to scratch. What other big options are out there?

In football numbers though and with his output, no wonder he's desperate for the move, one last big payday and one last chance to play European football.

The source is FtblJoe ffs

Plz. Plz. Plz.

Wasn't there direct quotes from Howe saying he only knew where Isak was due to the press reporting it? Doesn't sound great does it.

Man Utd will offer him double the wages and he'll go there, I can't see any other outcome tbh, unless Man Utd can't afford the deal, no doubt they'll find the money from somewhere though, they're untouchable.

Fucking mental all this, Liverpool obviously don't want him that much and now lots of our fans don't either. Best solution ship him off to Saudi for 200 million.

Not a chance this guy is ever gonna fulfill his potential, constantly injured and has regressed as time has gone on. If there were any truth in Fulham wanting him for 20 mil we should have snapped their hands off.

Guehi, Gallagher, Wissa and Sesko next plz.

Surely the Greek would be the one folk would want out first?

Not to be Mr Positive but I'm finding myself quite happy with this signing, get him back to his Arsenal levels and he's a top keeper who will give our play from the back another dimension.

I would at least hope that club would have the sense to not let him go if it drags on much longer unless we already have the replacements as done deals...e.g Sesko and Wissa which we won't.

If we could get him back to his best when he was at Arsenal it wouldn't be a total disaster, but honestly what has come of our scouting network when this guy is seemingly our best choice? It's like weve just pivoted to another English keeper that's attainable rather than think outside the box just a little bit.

We are kind of fucked either way, if he does go and we bag £150-180 mil our team will never get the deals we need done, I wouldn't be confident even if we had another 12 weeks to get them done never mind 4 weeks. If we do make him stay, we get stuck with a player who doesn't want to be here, possibly upsets dressing room harmony and half arses his performances, if Craig Hope is to be believed the contract situation likely accounted to to his slow start to the season and then again for his poor form at the back end of the season. There's no perfect scenario anymore, this whole saga has completely fucked an already almost fucked transfer window and the longer it drags on the less chance there is of us doing the right deals and getting the best players available. Sad state of affairs, I can't believe this squad needs to be champions league ready with the time we have left.

Apparently he's gone.

Are we working on CB, GK and CM deals or can we only focus on Isak leaving right now? Hope we are at least monitoring or preparing or considering Wissa still.

There's no way hes not away, hope we absolutely rinse whoever it is buying, we tend be soft touches when it comes to outgoings though but we did hold out for more on Longstaff. Move quickly, go get Sesko and Wissa.

Look on the bright side if we do sell him paying 55 million for Wissa won't be an issue.

Are we now back to monitoring and considering before we can do some preparing?

Can play anywhere across the front 3 and has a great eye for goal, it would be an excellent signing while not being super exciting, considering how the window has went I'd be all in for this. Think they will sell at 30-35 mil. Just have to hope Spurs don't come in because he may want to work with Frank as others have said. Edit: Aslong as he's not an Isak replacement.

At least there's some behind the scenes stuff getting done I suppose, it's slow but we aren't dead yet!!

Reports into the sporting director which we don't yet have.... Let's hope the new sporting director, whoever that may be didn't want his own man, are we not doing this a bit backwards?

Would be nice to see a photo of Isak smiling, haven't seen any in pre season