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And very possibly less comfortable with his hands, Trafford so far one season in the prem and didn’t do well, Burnley with pope always survived and went down first season he left and we’ve managed CL twice and won a cup with him, the final we lost was when we didn’t have him. “As good as the rest of his game is” is a massive understatement imo. People are saying “chuck £40m at him and get him straight in first team”, I’m just glad the club seems to be not as gun ho.

Folk on this forum don’t say no to any players we’re linked with.

Isaks on his arse by the end of the season and we have a shed loads extra games next season, we have no cover on the right, an ageing defence and one or two mids out from longstaffs playing. GK can wait for me personally- if it comes up for the right price then great otherwise no biggie for me.

Completely disagree - this whole let’s all jump on Pope because he can’t kick is tiresome, he’s a bloody good keeper and people may just see that if he gets dropped. Burnley stayed up for years, sell pope and can’t stay up since.

Popes been part of the team that’s got us to two Champion Leagues so I’d rather he stayed to be honest.

In all fairness to Henderson he is still Sunderland fan and was at Wembley for their playoff final.

Bearing in mind they will see it as he contributed to them getting promoted and will offset it against that.

Genuine question as I must have missed something - how are they not richer on Bellingham being sold when they only paid £3m for him?

That plus the £15m Brighton paid for another player gives them around £45m, Everton are apparently after one for around £15m as well.

At the same time we had amazing success with buying non prem at first with Bruno, Isak, Botman - later on Tonali then stopped. The prem players we bought were great also but it seems we can buy well from overseas so why not get excited if the club looks at them

Who knows with Brighton but if they want him chances are he’ll turn out decent.

And the reason we haven’t spent in the last three years is cos we were up to the limit. Our commercial is still piss poor and we have no hotels to sell, Chelsea will make so much more for their CL than we will due to how it pays out and we keep giving contracts to players like Lascelles and Wilson .

Some outlets reckoned Arsenal would get Isak for £70m man 😂😂 seems we should be keeping these players warm for the “big teams”

Didn’t mean him - his agent is actually what I was angling at, maybe always after a deal for him but I agree with you on him. He seems really down to earth.

Yeah that’s a non starter, this is what Man City do- they plant the seed in the players head then hope they kick up a fuss.

At the same time aren’t we his third club in 6 years or so? I may be wrong on that as I can’t be arsed to look up when he joined Southampton from Chelsea.

Nobody buys the old Ashley players, we won’t sell either of thosethem.

You can’t say that the owners think this way, all you can say is you think the owners will be thinking this. Every footballer in the game can be purchased end of. I love Livramento as we all do but fact is they offer up to three times more wages and you have a better chance of winning things and pretty much nailed on CL football every single year.

I’m telling you if we sell Gordon or Livramento I’ll be so fucking indifferent because I trust the system.

For me - I have that much faith in Barnes we could sell Gordon for me if it boosted our cash to spend in other areas. I do like Elange though, seems to have the right attitude and hard working and a great season last year.

He’s not wrong though - people are allowed to say there’s areas Howe could improve on.

Agreed - if we’re not careful isak will be finished as well by the time we’re done with him. This is one of the two areas Howe needs improving on (the other being rotation), he’s done, unreliable, shite when he’s on the pitch now and as rawe as big will may seem he also scored more than Wilson last season.

Everywhere I’ve read says he isn’t although it’s just paper talk.

No strikers want to come to us because of how good Isak is, we’re always going to have that problem. Accept it or not but there’s a very good chance we’ll end up with a DCL or something.

If we extend his contract and don’t bring anyone else in well we deserve whatever get next year.