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Reminds me of that Blackburn Man United carry on when Blackburn had the audacity to sign Sutton over Man United, so Man United tried to unsettle and snatch David May and Blackburn threw in a petty bid for Cantona. But you'd never see a classy club like Liverpool whose fans abhor such behaviour stoop to the shenanigans of Ferguson's Man United and a lotto club.

Its a "great move" for a player to go from Arsenal and Bayer Leverkusen to Sunderland?! It wouldn't even be a great move for Longstaff, just a sort of slightly nearer home than Leeds move

Buying the best players from the non-cartel clubs never did the SPL any harm.

To be fair from my end the paltry bid is part of the problem. I'd feel a lot better about it if it was £170+ for what the reinvestment could do for us, accepting that because of the bullshit rules its inevitable. Amongst the many qualms with the rules is that it will limit clubs paying what a play like Isak is actually worth relative to other transers and pressure clubs into accepting less money. Works out well for the usual suspects of course.

Ekitike puts us backwards if we lose Isak, everyone does

Sell for more to whomever would piss off Liverpool the most next summer. Real or City.

The only relationship with us they'd consider good is being able to cherry pick any player they choose.

Extract Frankfurt

150m + Nunez = 100m

Would take a £30m hit for it not to be to Liverpool this time next year. Preferrably not Arsenal either. After that its a small mercy.

Liverpool spending crazy money isn't bad for the game but they're the first to get santcimonious about it if its anybody else

Couldn't care less about Ekitike in this context. Feel like there arer other Ekitike's, but there's no other Isak. Its not a Cole > Ferdinand situatiion thus.

'Sign him', 'get it done at any cost' lasted a page.

Think what it is is dickhead fanbases like Wolves just need to have one season of being in the top half to get all Billy Big Bollocks towards clubs that have been ahead of them for the previous 30years and going on like they're some sort of established force but ol' Sunderland with two top half finishes in 60years don't have that luxury so they've got to get it in before a ball has been kicked.

How did the teams that finished about South Shields last season get on in the World Club Cup? based on that mackems basing Buxton and Chorley must be crushing it

Anybody would think it was purely self-preservation and about stopping a rival with intimidating potential from overtaking them rather than being about hitherto unexercised human rights concerns or a completely contrasting and sudden change of heart from certain clubs to having what's best for the game, and not at all themselves, at heart.

Be all over Wissa if its his last year under contract.

Well, he'll definitely improve us, so we've got stronger no question, more incremental than exciting personally but maybe that's just the PSR bullshits effect on things and dependent on what else happens also always glad when players come to sign and its sunny

Hate us getting on our own players unless its Michael Owen but he looked McClen levels of chronic last season so had to go.

even then, Shearer, Ferdinand, Cole, Beardsley, Cisse, Ba, Bellamy, Tino

Yeah, they were never going to spell out what the point of the rules actually was so pretended it was to benefit the game somehow to pass off stagnation and ring fencing the clubs at the top from being usurped, as they had usurped others before, because we cant have that and basically making ambition dirty and being ran Ashley-style a virtue.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

That's like a solved grid round on Only Connect for the answer/link 'mackems'

Sentenced clubs that love spending money to spend more money (on fines), so that they can continue to spend more money. Its like the ironic punishment division in hell on the Simpson's.

He's basically saying they're the lower league cup underdog with nothing to lose. Where's he wrong is that that's always been the dynamic, give or take a few games in the last 40year, and why more of us hate that fixture and more of them, even when they were getting battered, lke it