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It was such a glaring week point. Villa were doubling up on Elanga. Put Gordon on the left and we're golden.

This. I'd go further and say there isn't a number I'd accept from anyone. 3 years in they reserves if that's what he wants. We've more than had our value from the initial £55m.

I suspect also the levels of constant daily social media involvement are much higher now. They'll have still been the dominant stories of the day but it won't have been as constant. Might make future players think twice about going down this route.

I've convinced myself that Liverpool have no real intention to sign him. They've promised £300k to him knowing a deal was never likely to happen and caused massive unrest to a rival. Then submit a derisory bid they know will be rejected to say well we tried.

I just don't get what the plan is here. He can only move to Liverpool if they bid for him and apart from the one derisory bid they haven't. And also they spent fuck loads on Ekitike. Wouldn't be surprised if Liverpool are stringing them along a bit here. Win win for them. They've massively disrupted a rival, and figure maybe they get Isak on the cheap out of it. But wouldn't be surprised if they have no intention of actually matching his valuation.

So where's he living then? Cunt thinks he's already signed for Liverpool. Wtf are him and his agent playing at.

Harsh on Froggy that.

Are they expected to win it again? Bookies probably have them as favourites as they won last year but they've gone through quite a few changes and have aging Salah/VVD and a suspect defence. This is turning into Slot's team rather than Klopps. Think there's easily a world where they're fighting around 4th-5th with the rest of us and I wouldn't be surprised if the top of the league is a little more open this season compared to others. I don't particularly expect us to be fighting for the league title but the squad have to be going into the season with that as an aspiration.

It's going to be more insurmountable if we let them have our best player. I just see it as such a defeatist attitude. You're basically saying "why even try?" and i'd venture that's a losing attitude for a sports team.

Can people pleeeeassssseeeee stop saying this. We literally just beat them in a cup final. Their shiny new team just lost to Crystal Palace. They're our second game of the season. Beat them and we could be above them in the table for a bit. If we do well in the CL we may well face them in the knockout stages. We're obviously handicapped financially against them but the only way they're not our rivals if we accept the media narrative that they're our betters and fulfil the prophecy by giving them our best players.

This is utter utter nonsense. I don't understand how anyone can have such a losing mentality.

There's something there with Jackson and I'd back Eddie to get it out of him but not at anyway near the figures being talked about. Leave Spurs and Bayern to it.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to trick people with my post

Club Statement: "Alexander Isak is not for sale at any price. He is contracted to the club until 2028 and will remain with the club in one form or another until 2028. There will be no further updates on this matter."

If we go down this route I'd happily just put him in the reserves for 3 years and gamble that the PSR rules change.

As long as it doesn't interfere with any Traitor's games this gets a thumbs up from me.

I get the attraction of Man Utd from a historical prestige POV. And they'll be better next season than last obviously. But surely Sesko has to be looking at Isak and seeing what Eddie Howe has done with him to unlock his full potential and thinking I want some of that. Meanwhile Man Utd continually ruin (perhaps too strong a word but still) the careers of most who go there. He'll back himself to deliver I'm sure and think he's better than those who went before him (part of an elite sportsman's mentality) but that very much remains to be seen.

I don't doubt he's regarded as one of the best centre forwards in Europe. But that hasn't for various reasons as you say translated to one of the most sought after. There's only one club showing any real interest and the one bid they submitted was derisory.

Is he? There's only been one bid put in for him and it was a serious lowball.

Did Isak play?

It surely can't happen but imagine he does a Chris Wood against us

Fuck sell on clauses. Absolute cancer.

The Wilson replacement. We need a second 9 because Isak can't manage a full 90 especially with the amount of games we have coming up. Sesko spends the year getting up to speed and then that becomes the time to let Isak go, and probably for much more than we get this summer.

How does him formally handing in a transfer request make any difference? Apart from potentially financially harming himself. We all know he wants the move anyway. That's public knowledge.

Don't see what difference that makes. Everyone knows he wants the move anyway.