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Selling Watkins who's probably past peak value and buying someone like Jackson who's of similar profile but much younger is a very villa thing to do. They aren't afraid of taking risk.

If we sell to Liverpool for less than 150m and without a replacement then, all I will be able to do is laugh. Would require such an absurd level of bad decisíon making/incompetence.

Nah they planned this all along imo. They aren't in a hurry as they think they hold the cards and would rather shift players first.

They are in Dreamworld.

Got you, I'm following the qs so thanks for clarifying

What happened to positive Peter?

The price depends on a lot of factors. This window to Liverpool, for me is impossible. This window to someone else in the PL 150m This window abroad 135-140m

We have to send a message, we can't allow other clubs to treat us like we are also rans. We can't provide a blueprint on how you get Newcastle's star players on the cheap to the other cartel clubs. We have to send a message to our players that if they want to leave, it has to be done in the correct professional way whereby everyone can win. We have to demonstrate to our fans that we are serious club who were being sincere when the fans were told about the clubs ambitions, no more talking actions. And finally we can't just roll over because a player is unhappy, so what get on with it. Tell you shitty agent to present us something acceptable or jog the fuck on.

Isak and the scouse are banking on us being piss weak because the position they have is extremely weak. 1 Liverpool, this whole rouse has done about because Liverpool are unwilling/unable to pay his actual worth so we've reached a situation whereby they have 2 options. Pay what we want or walk. Them being special they took the third option which is so what real Madrid did to them with Trent and little bro us, planting stories in the media and blatantly making overtures towards our play. 2 for Isaks part hes also in a Jam, he's got 3 years remaining with no get out, can he feasible go on strike for the season? I mean he can but it will ruin his reputation and make him look as unprofessional as can be imagined. And even then he'd still have 2 years left. Imo he will be left with little option but to play if we hold firm.

If your talking about a loan, then I'm not sure but it would be assessed for fair market value and we will likely have a PSR adjustment of 100% of his daft wages assigned to us. It's just not feasible.

He's a none starter. He makes double our highest earner and coming back to the UK Will trigger a massive tax bill for him.

It's all realistic, but again it depends on us having a backbone. If we are willing to get dog walked by Liverpool and the player then absolutely. We hold all of the cards and do for another 3 years, your suggestions involving folding them, mine assert our control over the situation and let the world know we aren't a wee club in the north east

Won't be no going through this next season. If we are properly managed (we aren't) then we will have a replacement brought in this summer and stick to our guns next summer for a sale to someone else. We aren't in a hurry he's got 3 years left to run. His price also won't change that much regardless too. Worse case scenario is playing in the sand for Alex as I'm told Saudi is full of it. Bending over to a player who has thrown a strop and to a club who've engineered this shouldn't be an option.

More than happy for Isak to sit in our reserves until next summer personally. I wouldn't sell to Liverpool period rewarding the blatant attempts at unsettling our players 2 summers in a row isn't it my MO. As for Elliot, he's a mid player cartel cast off who will end up turning in 6/10 performances for Fulham.

Take a cut price so a Liverpool stiff can warm our bench

I read what the gaffa said as isaks desire to stay isn't within his control.

I think all of the important stuff had been kicked down the road, his impact is low. That being said I respect the stance and will leave it.

I'm not sure what your point is? We have a club because of him?

No need to post morons bad takes on here.

It's not just that is it. He hasn't achieved anything during his tenure. A guy who was billed as not an empty suit has turned out to be just that.

He's knows absolutely nothing. Was he fucking breathing into the mic again? He's disgusting

Yes and no right Brighton are multi club and have a proper set up, where as us we look for random clubs to send players on loan to without any control over future development. We were exploring multi club 3 years ago btw

I expect any sporting director we do sign to be responsible for negotiating transfers for the players Eddie wants and not much else tbh. As I said at the time, it's obvious to me Mitchell lost the power struggle and was binned/sidelined

You know why, we fixed on Trafford it fell through and now we are scrambling and an option which is safe to Eddie has been chosen.