Shays Given Tim Flowers

Because we'd have a replacement, which is clearly the managers preference and the discount fee is only going to get worse next summer. There's more than Liverpool in the league. We'd also see a player leave who doesn't want to play for us. He's not bigger than the club.

It's much easier to have a gameplan if you're them. One of the problems when you crystalise a group of clubs at the top of the table.

Putting the emotion out of it, if we can get an adequate replacement in tomorrow at a fair price then probably selling him to Liverpool tomorrow for circa £130m is as good as this realistically gets. It sucks but I think that's probably the best for the club. He's driven his value down significantly if he does stay and it will only be a matter of time before he goes. I wouldn't fancy our bargaining position if we needed to sell him before the PSR window.

He’s looked sharp to be fair and strong.

Wilson doing good.

My prediction is the sale of Isak is predicated on signing a replacement, if we make a breakthrough then he will go very quickly. If we don’t then I think he stays though absolutely not through choice. It’ll probably come down to Liverpool increasing their offer to a level that allows us to increase our offer for someone most probably JSL or Wissa. So no real benefit to the increased fee beyond it helping to get a replacement.

I could do that.

he’s a lot older. He also didn’t really do a lot.

That’s some counterpunch on Tommy.

Swear a lot of this comes down to that fucking Doyle isak. If he’d have just let us sign some players before lighting a fire under us we could have sold him. Now we’re fucked as everyone is wanting their piece of the isak bonanza.

The guys going to get us points.

I disagree that it could have gone a lot worse, hard to imagine how looking at the contact Van Dijk gets an injury (as opposed to a graze). Gravenberch’s tackle is a lot more dangerous and is exactly the type of ‘injury’ the rule is targeted at. Gordon could have gone in with a firm leg and broken Van Dijks leg, he’d receive the same punishment. It’s fucking crackers iyam.

You absolute friggin creep.

He’s coming back.

The Lachmann test? Doctors kept doing it and saying I was fine, then had the MRI high grade tear.

I mean I also did my LCL and Meniscus, was walking about next day mind you.

I had to be carried off the pitch and my feet didn’t touch the ground until the hospital bed.

Put your boots on, win the league.

No memory of that second Carroll spell.

I’d probably just stop mentioning him if I were you.

All of this broken promises stuff is just fluff. The fucker will have known where he wanted to be playing his football next season for quite some time.

why?