Kid Icarus

Especially when Harvey Elliott's on weeeeey

It's just another TBG cover.

Here he is

A) The club statement B) We put our resources into trying to find a replacement for months on end, until (hopefully) Sesko ended that route. These reports of us keep trying to convince a player with an existing contract to stay/sign a new one is bizarre to me when there could be a hardline, it's this or you can leave in 2028.

Wood and Sels is a fair one.

I didn't have the Internet then so didn't see it

Don't think they've been wrong tbh

If there's one lesson that's always held firm for me over the years it's to ignore what fans of clubs are saying at your peril like. Can't think of a time it's ever wrong.

It's stretching the stupidity really far though isn't it? Hard not to catastrophise over this whole thing when we're the most emotionally damaged fanbase out there and it feels like (last Tuesday aside) we've done everything we can to facilitate a move that should have been blocked outright in the first place.

Remember though everyone, the same Ben Jacobs that's now saying Isak's stance might change if Liverpool tell him the deal is impossible, is the same Ben Jacobs that's just said that Liverpool have stayed silent.

It really worries me that this steadfast approach from Isak and Liverpool is based on something they know that no one else does mind. We've not come this far in the window and come this far as Newcastle supporters to not expect the worst. Him calling their bluff must be based on some form of confidence that we absolutely won't just let his value depreciate by keeping him in the reserves.

If we give this cunt what he wants I swear to fucking God.

Really hope she's right and/or a medical professional

They, like us, will rate him much higher, which is why he'll have been instructed to make himself persona non grata so that it would tank his value and they'd get him cheaper.

Based on what? We've attempted to facilitate the move for months.

I've decided that he'll have been watching it and cheering on Liverpool.

Exactly why I wish Gordon had done some actual damage. VVD is a horrible snide cunt who gets away with it just like that horrible cunt Fabinho did.

Jim White talking about us 'trying to convince him to stay' man. The way the media keep talking about upholding the terms of a contract as if it's a favour to us is constantly maddening. We have the power to make this cunt rot in the reserves until 2028 man. We have the ability to ruin his career, he has no hand to play beyond his value tanking. At this point that should be irrelevant vs the precedent it sets and the reputational damage by selling him to Liverpool. It's hugely damaging if they do that.

Always been my experience with Liverpool fans, bit sanctimonious and bordering on patronising, but generally sound. That was why I never really understood the disdain for them. Now that the whole Isak saga has exposed me to their plastic armada of non-Liverpool English, Irish, Scandinavian, and Africans though, fucking hell. If that's what success brings relegate us now.

We're fair game tbh, just annoying that Kudus keeps getting mentioned when we were never in for him. Their whole board meeting ideas format is getting a bit stale as well.

You were talking about the €70m range. JSL was more than half that. I agree that there'll be a lot more players in that range to take a punt on and I understand Howe's reluctance when we can't afford to fuck this up.

Honestly I think Schär Burn are probably our best CBs in my lifetime. Schär because he just is, and Burn purely because for all we had Woodgate, Albert etc, you just cannot deny Burn.