Shays Given Tim Flowers

So what you’re saying is spurs concerns were vastly different to ours. Is what we as a football club trying to do comparable to what spurs were trying to do in that window. No. Was Harry Kane as toxic as Isak was behind the scenes, you’ve no idea. We do know that Kane came back to the fold and contributed that does not mean Isak would. Go away and look at the best alternatives and worst alternatives to a negotiated agreement for both clubs at the material time. You can’t just look at transfers in isolation, what if Bayern had walked away? Is a gambler smart or lucky? Mike Ashley got his fee and interest on Andy Carroll. Anyway say what you want now. I’ll not reply further.

Daniel Levy would have gotten £60m.

Wissa isn't a poacher, like. He's a goalscorer.

Some of that is because we have a very good first 11 and the player we have lost is incredibly hard to improve upon.

That's one of the most optimistic posts I've seen on here in an age. Thanks man.

Got us at about -£85,000,000 for this window?

I believe you think that you have but you haven’t. Saying levy is a good seller doesn’t address the fact NUFC is in a weaker and different negotiating position than Spurs were in selling Kane. I was not ever attempting to change your mind as I made clear. It is not a personal attack it is outlining precisely why I’m posting and why I’m not looking to engage in a debate.

Pope, Schar, Botman, Livra, Hall, Tonali, Bruno, Joelinton, Gordon, Wissa, Elanga is a good XI Ramsdale, Trippier, Burn, Thiaw, Barnes, Ramsey, Murphy, Osula, Willock, Miley, Woltemade is depth that we have never ever known.

I'm not saying anything about Levy, just that it's not the straightforward comparison you paint it as. I'm not even trying to persuade you as to anything as I've got far more sense than that. Just you know it's important that someone peridocially posts a counterpoint to your deluge of posts.

Replaced Isak's goals. Added a wonderful young talent from abroad improved the squad depth. Daresay learned a lot of lessons. Champions league game against Barca in a couple of weeks and not in the bottom 3! If we'd had Wissa sooner we'd have had more points on the board.

Bullshit, they had revenue that allowed them to adopt that position of strength. I don't doubt that no sporting director and our usual way of making decisions has left us a little soft but it's daft to compare the hands of the two clubs.

I could see Wissa going to Saudi in 2 years time.

You ever hear the term that comparing the negotiation strength of Spurs in 2023 to Newcastle in 2025 is more nuanced than ah fuck it never mind. Pissing into the wind. As you were.

Yeah once he played this out the way he did it’s been a case of ‘least bad’

Our on pitch performance has massively outstripped our revenue. Until our revenue is comparable to the sky six the game is rigged massively in their favour and we negotiate from a tacit position of weakness.

don’t sound so surprised ya bamp.

I think criticism of the ownership is fair, but Suarez and Kane are a bit apples and oranges as a comparison. The evolution of PSR has changed the way these things work.

Isak’s peephole Pringle is modelled on an SAS balaclava.

This is why Liverpool keep referring to waiting to hear from us IMHO. If we were able to do what we wanted I think EH would be happy to get rid.

The fee will be the fee the competitive tendering will be on wages.

Well nobody knows anything that's the beauty of football. But the signs wouldn't exactly look fantastic. We do know we'd need to sell for PSR given what has been spent this summer. It's also not a wild assumption to suggest his performance levels wouldn't be as good as they have been this year. Remember Michael Owen when he knew he was going. Isak has shown this summer his absoslute willingness to put himself first. A wantaway striker with two years on his contract isn't going to attract ridiculous bids.

If he goes next summer it will be for £100m maximum and what of his campaign and impact this season?