TheBrownBottle

He can’t be sold to Liverpool at a discount - that sets a really dangerous precedent.

It was a player suing Newcastle which destroyed the old ‘retain and transfer’ system. Seems apropos if history repeats to destroy the player registration system.

Howe likely wants the cunt out and to recycle the significant PSR headroom. Managers can’t take ‘principled’ stands by allowing WC centre forwards to rot in the reserves - if we don’t replace the goals then Howe might find himself being replaced.

It’s so calming that the manager and not the owners are answering that question - mainly because the owners have said sweet fuck all for years and have a vacuum at executive level at the club. I’ve seen this before of course - but at least this time it’s a good manager and not Alan Pardew having to answer for his bosses.

The club holds the player’s registration - so a player usually can retire to break the contract, but not the registration. But they wouldn’t be able to pretend to retire and then sign to another club.

Yeah, fair enough if true

You’d hope so - I wouldn’t be vindictive about a player wanting to leave for more money and bigger trophies, but this is beyond unprofessional. The lad just seems to be a massive cunt.

The greedy cunt should have handed in a transfer request by now if he’s wanting out this bad. That would cost him and his agent money, though.

Yes, I am - he didn’t exactly pull trees up in the old second division. Send him to the old division three and see if the lad can smash it out the park.

He’s worth what the club are happy to sell him for and what another club is willing to pay; not what posters on internet forums think he’s worth. NB I haven’t seen anyone suggest that the club should take a bath on Isak

He’s a smoggie supporter, not Man Utd

So the paint job from three years ago won’t convince them?

He doesn’t count as one atm

Howe handling it like a pro tbh, it’s a bastard difficult tightrope to walk for a manager, Isak is a right cunt for putting that man in this position.

It’s what Bournemouth paid for Kluivert jr. It is what you pay for an informed gamble - which is what Osula was. He’s a long way off it at present, and the chances are he doesn’t get much better from here. He desperately needs loaning out to a lower level club - and I’m not convinced that the second division isn’t too high a level at the moment, despite plenty suggesting ‘the Championship’ as a destination. Give him six months at a third tier club and see if he can score goals and get some confidence.

Just don’t listen - it’s radio for people who use the word ‘bantz’. Football supporting as a penis extension. Who gives a shite what a sad sack Liverpool ‘supporter’ from Truro says?

The squad is weaker now than when we last qualified for the CL two years ago. That’s not great considering how fucked we were after a few months of the season.

Hang on, are you suggesting we go into a season with Osula up front and £150m in the bank? If we’re shopping in January, we’d be doing it from a likely horrific position on that basis. We’d struggle to win games.

We haven’t worked out yet that if bigger clubs are also interested, matching their wages isn’t going to persuade any top player to join

Tbf we’re unlikely to agree on this one - you’re impressed by body hire; I’m not, as it takes budget not competence to do that

The 2024 numbers:

Tbf I can remember this with Tonali as well - the Milan press and support claiming we’d need to bid £80m etc.

The numbers are wrong, but the business staff did double from 2022 to 2024. Might be worth considering that there was more staff onboard in 2021 than in 2022 - again, he couldn’t have been starting from an easier position.

Given the starting point, what did he do to build that?

What did he build?