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I don't know why I didn't realise this earlier, but it only just occurred to me that UEFA spending rules serve the exact same purpose as PSR, meaning this runs deeper than just domestic monopoly, it's football that's rigged in it's entirety.

My outside bet is Marcus Thuram

There had to be some succession planning beyond Pedro, Ekitike and Sesko?? Surely?! We scouted those players 2 years before they becaome household names. Who are the next strikers who are set to be household in 2 years? Surely we have that list?

Get someone to pay £150m then. I don't know what's hard to understand about this, Alex. "Right now" is just a back door way of saying 'in case I dont get sold'.

Prick.

Need to go through Romano first

This guy will be worth £80m by the end of the season.

If we're linked with Frattesi then it usually means we've looked at someone else at the club too. Marcus Thuram anyone? Been linked with him before.

Is Ramos the type of forward who can drop deep and attack space with the ball? That seems to be the profile of Striker we've gone after in Ekitike, Pedro and Sesko. Are there any other players out there like that? I can't only think of Woltemade.

One of the best defences in the league, arguably, pending a signing or 2 one of the best midfields in the PL and this cunt cant see what we're building, and have built in just 4 years.

Someone suggested dropping a £1m value per goal he scores, and it honestly makes so much sense to me. Price is set at £160m. It's you're job to get it down to £130m, which would still be a massive bargain off the back of a 30 goal season.

I coming round the the fact that despite the Isak situation being a complete shitshow, the silver lining is the message we send to the big clubs who think they can bully us into submission.

God, I actually hate this guy. I had Ashley, Llambias Souness, Kinnear, Pardew, Bruce and Owen on my hate list. I'm close to putting him second on the list after Ashley.

It's probably not smart to slag off the Saudis.

EL Kannous would be as close to perfect signing as we could make for midfield. Prem proven, young, technically brilliant, and for a great price too.

He does, yeh but he's played across all front 3 positions and definitely has the quality to play behind the striker and in midfield if needed.

Akliouche please!

What he lacks with his first touch, he makes up with his hold up play. He's also got a couple of caps for Spain so theres clearly something there, although Spain are lacking somewhat in that department. I wasnt keen at first for the same reasons as you, but I think back to all those times Isak was left isolated and wasnt able to hold up the ball and wonder if this guy would add something different and allow us to spring more counters.

This will be our Ekitike/Pedro/Sesko/Huijsen debacle in a couple years time.

Agreed, but it's a bit easier to leverage the fact Liverpool wont pay his value and emphatically justify that value, than it is owning the fact you are solely responsible for him not being able to fulfill his wishes.

Reject the bid? He knows, his agent knows and Liverpool know the price. It will ease tensions a little once he realises they are the ones taking the piss, not us.

I don't actually think this is the smartest move and just further antagonises an already volatile situation. Tell him straight up he can leave if he can find a club that's willing to pay £150m plus. Put the onus entirely on Liverpool to make his wishes come true.

I just can't process how there could ever be any scenario where we shouldn't get £150m minimum. The ask of Liverpool is if they dont think £150m is "fair value" then go buy the player who's just as good or better for what they think is "fair value". If they can't, then where is the basis for £150m being unfair other than it being a big number? That message should be emphatically shoved up the arses of Liverpool, Isak and his cunt agent.

This club's cursed, like.

Not against Jackson. His misses have been magnified which makes him look worse than he is, but he's a good player who's done reasonably well in a team that wasn't firing on all cylinders the 2 years he's been there. 34 G/A in 65 games is actually pretty good.