Hovagod

You can’t understand why people would want one of the best strikers in the world in our squad? He’s clearly a cunt but if he’s going to have to put his big boy pants on then so are we.

I am not uniquely placed in my job as being clearly the very best at doing it though. If I perform to my capabilities I don’t earn my colleagues huge amounts of money in bonuses

Hugely disagree. I would much rather Isak stayed with us and we worked on a solution. Can’t believe others have the opposite opinion, to be honest. Footballers are adults doing a job. They can work it out amongst themselves should they get the chance to.

Him and Howe though?

Whatever did happen with Ryan Fraser?

Elaborate.

Where’s this Ramos thing came from?

They tried.

I think this is it, isn’t it? We’re not playing their stupid game.

Why would that change anything. He can request away. He has a contract

Isak going after we are sorted for strikers wouldn’t be the worst thing. We have responded strongly and have wrestled control of the situation back into our hands. Whatever happens from here, it can only be positive that we still have a firm sense of expectations and a clear plan.

Best summary I’ve read so far. Will steal this as my own in real life going forward.

Haha, Liverpool seem almost impressed

If it’s part of the healing process, and guarantees us another season of the best striker in the world, is it really that unpalatable?

Why? Why do them any favours at all. We have told them to fuck off- and despite restrictions on actually spending it we do have fuck off money- and that can be the end of that. It’s all about Howe mending things with Isak now, and I think he will.

He’s not not getting picked for Sweden though, is he?

So the new owners not exactly like Ashley then?

If that’s true, arm round Isak’s shoulder, some in club media, and get on with the new season with an increased feeling of excitement

Mate. They lie.

I think he imagines that we’re all shaking our fists at him and his expert wind-up. Instead he’s a deeply dull bellend that regularly makes entire pages and threads a waste of time. He’s like the ‘funny’ one on a football forum in the 2010s.

Where’s that you are, lad?

Yeah. It’s just the nature of being at the top of English football, something we all forgot about when Ashley was in charge. Think Suarez and Arsenal, Nasri, Modric, Bale, seemingly Kane every year. Well move on. He’ll have some stormers against us and some nightmares. It’s football. Though waiting until Howe was at other end of the country (literally talking about a transfer the day they flew out) marks Isak out as a bit of a cunt.

Yes

Fuck off with this man.

I was one of the agnostics when it came to their promotion but I’ve been at the cricket with a mackem and his absolute delight about Isak was genuinely tragic. I told him that this is how top level football operates- good players leave good teams- and that he wouldn’t get it. It really has me kicking myself about how gracious I have been during the last couple of years. They are pathetic cunts. In a drunken moment of weakness he told me that us winning the cup was a genuinely dark moment for him. This is both sad and deeply, deeply satisfying.