Moose

100%. Isak has played this like the classic tale of the gambler chasing his losses. I'm sure his agent put the feelers put to other clubs while we're were negotiating his new deal and that's when Liverpool said they'd be happy to pay him the 300k a week or whatever it was. Slight problem with that though, Liverpool aren't willing to pay our asking price, so the agent advises Isak to rattle our cage, agitate for a move, brief the cartel fluffing journos near enough hourly and wait until we succumb to the pressure. We still hold our ground, Isak goes full scorched earth, pissing off our manager, squad and fanbase in the process but Liverpool and their cartel friends have bought up all our potential replacements, Liverpool are spending more money fixing other areas of their squad leaving even less funds in the Isak bank. Isak still won't climb down though and has committed the cardinal sin of going on strike, so now not only do our fans think he's a cunt, neutrals and even Liverpool fans have slammed his behaviour as snakey. His agent is clearly a dodgy scumbag but Isak is the one who has been pulling the strings the whole time.

Fingers crossed, I'd be delighted to be proven wrong, it wouldn't be for the first time!

If Big Sam, Simon Jordan, Gabby Agbonlahor, Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher and Alan Pardew are all condemning your actions then you must have fucked up pretty bad.

Another guy who we've out grown. I'll forever be grateful for him for almost single handedly keeping us up during the dark days but he's just not up to standard anymore. The best ability is availability and he simply isn't reliable in that regard

You can almost feel the hurt in Eddie tone of voice and facial expressions. Anyone who hurts Eddie deserves a fate worse than death. I seriously hope this cunt doesn't get his move to Liverpool and enjoys his first training session back up against Joelinton. Not absolving Isak of anything for even a second but his agent is a complete fucking bum whose been found out to be the complete spiv he is.

We all tried to warn him! Too bad he's probably never logged onto N-O

Of all the post-Ekitike striker links, I was firmly in the Jackson camp. At the right price of course. We're not going to replace Isak in terms of like for like ability so get the one who suits our style of play best and who leaves us with enough change to spend on one or two more bits of quality. We don't necessarily need to buy a purple, buy a blue and Eddie will make him a purple.

Moose has reservations about believing a word Luke Edwards says. Not seen as the same calibre of journalist as Francis Chipp for a start #baldnonce

Wow. The truth was right in front of our eyes this whole time.

Shut up Keith. I'm with the gnocchi nonce on this one

If Jacobs had ever felt the loving touch of another human being, he wouldn't act like this.

Yeah fair enough, I just saw my opportunity to fire a shot at Steve Bruce, even if it was completely unwarranted

What manager in their right mind would think about putting this specimen, tailor made for midfield domination up front?! Oh yeah, Steve Bruce.

You know what, this window is still salvageable. OK, it doesn't look like we're going to be landing any purples unless we cash in on the serpentine Swede but we know Eddie can cook with players who have some rough edges to smooth out. Those premium priced players like Ekitike and Sesko are still out of our range but they're by no means the finished articles themselves anyway. Every player we've brought in improves the berth that they're now occupying and will push the starters in that position which will in turn make them better players if they have a deputy chomping at their heels, iron sharpens iron. Of course, there is a snake shaped elephant in the room that still needs addressed but (at least for me) the mood music has changed in the past week or so and I genuinely don't see us selling Isak for anything that doesn't suit us. It'll be alreet lads

I don't mind this deal at all. Going into this window my priorities were addressing RW, RCB, GK, backup ST and backup CM. Our starting 11 is very good, but scratch beneath the surface and our squad depth leaves a lot to be desired, so I think it's more sensible that we're using what funds we have available to raise the floor of the squad with 5-7 additions rather than spending big on one or two purples hoping to raise the ceiling a bit. Ramsey is a comfortable improvement on Longstaff and Willock and I don't care about the price, 40m today is what 20m was 5 years ago. Go find me an obtainable 24 year old English midfielder with PL and CL experience for under 40m who would improve our squad. His true value is probably higher but like with Hall/Livra/Barnes etc were buying a 'stressed asset', taking advantage of a particular set of circumstances, in this case, Villa's PSR pickle. The exact same way we ended up losing Anderson and Minteh basically. No matter what anyone thinks, if Eddie sees something in him, that's good enough for me. He should've earned everyone's trust by now.

Welcome aboard Malick. His accent is fucking mad like. He sounds exactly how I always expected a German born to Finnish and Senegalese parents to sound like.

The metamorphosis from being the first to accurately break transfer related news to becoming fluffers on the cartel payroll that he and Ornstein have undergone is quite spectacular.

The atmosphere against Liverpool at SJP is going to be like hellfire, I want us to shred those cunts apart more than sunderland

Aren't Feyenoord the ones the mackems have tried to forge a friendship with?

I was racking my brains about this earlier and I think that in my time only Cabaye has done anything remotely similar. As shitty as it was, we were a husk of a club that had just gone from 5th to 16th and when he didn't get his own way he threw a tantrum for a wee bit but was then welcomed back into the fold and played well for the following few months before getting his move.

Losing your best player, even for a world record fee, is always going to sting. However, I maintain that the vast majority of us understand the way the football food chain works and wouldn't begrudge him moving to pastures new if he went about it the right way. The part highlighted in bold, is the most palatable way and perhaps the only way to delicately handle the situation, ensuring you're not disrespecting the club and the fans. What you don't do is lurk in the shadows and get a lowlife, criminal gangster to pay the usual cartel fluffers to spout their digital diarrhea all summer long, derailing your clubs pre season, undermining the manager, pissing off your team mates and insulting the fanbase. I'm still in complete shock in how quickly I've gone from worshipping the ground this guy walked on to fucking despising every fibre of his being.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. In a world full of Fabrizo Romanos, David Ornsteins and Ben Jacobs. Be a Shadow Puppet. Thank you for your service! 🫡

So what he's saying there is that they'll conduct their business properly and respectfully if they happen to have a good relationship with the selling club owners If not, they'll play dirty as we're seeing with Isak. Does Jacobs realise what he's saying here