TheBrownBottle

What the fuck was that?

Aye, fair dos mate - woke up to a ‘gotcha’ and thought ‘howld on, that’s not a gotcha’

Blah blah blah the process blah blah blah project blah blah blah working in the background blah blah blah assessing options That’s not an exact quote tbf

You’re not contractually obliged to sign, they get first refusal. He’s not an indentured worker.

Doesn’t look like he’ll make it at the top level, flip him and make a solid profit. This is what the ‘big six’ have been doing for years and it bolsters their revenues. If we get 20m+ for him - especially with a buy back clause - it’s cracking business.

Yes, they could have. Which still means that the club couldn’t have done anything about it if they did - so, again, it’s not up to NUFC.

Unlike Edwards, I wasn’t claiming something different edit: I was responding to comments about the club stopping the player being called up. I said that they couldn’t do anything about that - and they can’t. The player has a made a decision not to go - that was always available to him.

They didn’t - the player did. The club can’t stop the player playing for their country. This is Wissa’s call, not NUFC’s.

I didn’t say he wouldn’t, I said that the club couldn’t do anything about it

We’re going to be at the mercy of this for the foreseeable - not everyone is going to be as unprofessional as Isak, but footballers know how to get themselves a move. We can’t pay what the big boys can, we aren’t going to win what the big boys will, we don’t even offer the facilities that the big boys can. We still have to be realistic about keeping hold of players on that basis - and not gan radge every time one leaves. Isak leaving never worried me (I thought we might get another year), but he acted the cunt which was unexpected. The good thing is that anyone who comes calling for one of our players will need to cough up good money for them as we are in a position to be awkward sellers, and we know that all profits from the sale go straight back into the club. I don’t think we sell enough or at the right time - Joelinton and Gordon would’ve been gone last summer for me.

I agree tbh - top full backs are vital in the modern game, and they’re not ten a penny. Tonali would be more straightforward to replace.

‘Yes, it’s meant to taste like that … the headache? Yeah, it’s the only beer that gives you a hangover while you’re drinking it …’

‘OH I SAY!’ Etc etc

For anyone who is interested (ha!), if Livramento signed a new contract next summer then we could give him a £75k/pw pay rise and it wouldn’t change our outgoings for PSR thanks to amortisation (not allowing for a signing-on fee, though.

Honestly I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one - no player is unsellable nor guaranteed to stay.

Yep. Livramento is the more likely of the two to be off first, but no-one should assume they’re here forever - which should be encouragement to other young fullbacks being signed.

Love a dinked finish

If it was ok for Maldini it’ll do for this lad

It’s been said often but needs repeating - it was never brought up when they were winning at the start of the season. Though tbf the world’s most respectful club would always want to respect the tragic death of a young footballer in a vehicle accident *cough Munich songs cough*

It was 👍

He’ll start vs Everton

Liverpool had won fewer trophies than us when Shankly took over - so they only had four manager who’d won the title when managers were really a ‘thing’ in football. No-one was likely to get sacked by Liverpool from the mid-60s to about 1990 - as long as they were winning. The other two title winners are Klopp and Slot. Carragher is technically right, but it’s hardly an impressive feat not to sack the most successful managers in your history (and some of the most successful in the history of football full stop).

They’ve spread themselves thinly and made some really, really poor calls and investments. https://ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-line/ Anyone that knows anything about them found all this stuff laughable because they do it again and again, but folks bought the bullshit because they think KSA has unlimited reserves of cash - but they absolutely don’t.

Money + interest. The two bedfellows which follow every KSA scheme - both disappear like snow in sunshine. Doesn’t mean they’re looking to offload the club.

He isn’t. But then, neither are the vast majority of them. I think I remember our current lot ducked out of even taking the test …