TheBrownBottle

We wouldn’t have £150m profit on a £150m sale next summer. That isn’t how amortisation works - technically it never reaches zero, but there’d still be over £12m book value left for amortisation. If we keep Isak and spend £150m, it isn’t -£30m this season - it’s -£43m as Isak is still on the books. The PL is also looking to end the rolling three year losses in line with UEFA’s rules.

Southerner, then

Is Trippier still with his missus

Not every player has to act like a complete wanker when they want a move away. I don’t get the impression that he definitely wouldn’t have signed, just that the lad is actually a professional.

He’s a sad sack southerner with a strong sense of entitlement and a complete lack of football knowledge. Of course he’s a Man Utd supporter

Haaland had scored 62 in 67 for Dortmund before turning 22

Was it NME which once reviewed Futureheads as Shoutymackemblokesshoutymackemblokes?

I love it when you talk dirty Kaka 😂

I fucking love us signing centre forwards - there’s nothing more exciting in football transfers than fantasising about the new no.9 smashing them in the following season

You’d need to deduct the remaining book value of Isak’s contract - and while it gives a lot of headroom in the current rolling three years, once 25/26 drops off you have potential problems if your income hasn’t grown to cover the gap. PSR forces any club which doesn’t have big six income to sell its biggest assets if it hopes to eventually compete - which is why we’ll always be at the mercy of the bigger clubs (unless we add around £150m+ additional income sharpish)

Oh we did for quite a while - especially after Cole’s sing-song at Wembley in ‘96, the little fucking cunt edit: signing Ferdinand that summer made us all forget; Shearer’s signing made us laugh at the memory

Likewise - I support Newcastle United, not individual players. Personally I couldn’t give a gnat’s chuff about half of this stuff - lots of footballers are hugely paid spoiled dickheads, though I don’t expect ‘loyalty’ from any of them. It they were ‘loyal’ they wouldn’t be at my club in the first place. They’re hired hands - that cup win was the club’s, not the players’. I’ll still get goosebumps everytime I see Isak score the second.

The catastrophically slow reaction time of our ownership means it’s unlikely we’d have responded fast enough. Funny though that other PIF football clubs don’t have to follow ‘the process’ and can give those scouse cunts the money they need in the middle of all this to get the PSR headroom + finance to seal this deal.

Probably not, but a big club doesn’t allow its best player to not be one of its higher earners and point to the remaining years in his contract. This should’ve been sorted ages ago - what did they think would happen?

There is no way Howe switches to 4-4-2 on a regular basis. Our midfield would be overrun.

Champion. Let’s get the lad signed and get on with blocking up the other holes in the squad.

As a massive critic of PIF, I don’t think this holds water. Sometimes this happens - it happens to every big club. I don’t think Liverpool wanted TAA to leave.

The clauses that eclipse that in Spanish football are down to national legislation, not an assessment of the real value of the player. Isak isn’t worth £200m, no-one will come close to paying that, the player won’t sign it and we’re left in the same position. £150m - at a push - is the most we’ll get. To have any chance of the lad signing on again the release clause will need to be realistically high. Limiting it to a handful of European clubs might work if it’s sub-£150m. All of this feels moot tbh. We’ll sell to Liverpool once we’ve secured his replacement, and I’d be surprised if the fee doesn’t include a shitload of add-ons to get close to £150m

I prefer competitive matches

Unless you’ve got personal contacts with Isak, PIF and Liverpool’s board then you’re no wiser than the rest of this one unfortunately. It might well be the case; but your contact couldn’t know without having a foot in all three camps

Urgh. He’s a child, for fuck’s sake. Depressing stuff - ‘Ghanem has already bid farewell to Championship club West Brom, confirming he is leaving for a new challenge after several years with the West Midlands side’. He’s in the U15s - are they talking several years in first school?

No-one has the money or the need. The big six are six of the top ten richest clubs - after that, R Madrid and PSG don’t need him, Bayern has Kane, Barca can’t sign anyone, the Italian giants don’t have the money. There isn’t a market for Isak.

Yep. Empty waffle - standard stuff for the govt he represents.

Ornstein - per the title of the thread. If it hasn’t been, then mea culpa

The papers saying it’s acceptable is one thing - but the club rejecting it tells you that the hacks were wrong. I agree re what’s been going on all summer - the problem is that once again we’re bidding for players that the big six want, but we offer lower wages and lower prestige. Our support seems to think that if we say the word ‘project’ that top players will go ‘fair enough - I’ll sign up’. Yet what is the ‘project’? A new stadium? Man Utd are further ahead on that front. ‘In ten years we’ll be up there’? Great, but that means fuck all to a twenty-odd year old. ‘Look at what we’ve done for Isak’ - well, we’ve been paying him well below the market rate, won’t sell him to a top club and apparently reneged on a new contract. I wouldn’t blame Šeško for wanting to think about it.