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Don't have time to read back. Have we worked out what the hell this solidarity payment of £5m is for and who pays that to us if it isn't Liverpool? Never seen it reported on a deal in my life! Also, is their a reported figure for the loyalty payment we don't have to pay? I mentioned last night that I think we could have legally not paid it as his actions constituted a transfer request. It will be spun as Isak giving it up though to force his dream move.

I think we will get Wissa for a massive overpay. I would take a chance on Kolo Muani personally

Of course it would. Every press conference has been overshadowed by this snake, it has been dragging the club down. Even if the replacement wasn’t in (Woltemade could have possibly come earlier) the whole mood of the club would have been better.

I think the most frustrating thing for me is, we could have agreed on £130m a month ago. They were at £110m, we wanted £150m so realistically we were always going to meet in the middle. That would have given us more time to replace and would have removed this cloud over the club and we may well have more than 2 points to show for it.

I want a new CF and a centre mid tomorrow with this money.

£125m according to Hope. Going down more by the minute

We have replaced him with Woltemade. The fact that we are going to spend the entire fee on Woltemadr and JSL on the other hand isn’t great

We will now spend £60m on JSL to make it even worse

I don’t know how they work but surely we can legally fight the loyalty payments on the basis of the fact that his actions constitutes a transfer request. Absolutely ridiculous that he can act the way he has and get loyalty payments

£130m agreed

Every player, except Pope and I guess the centre backs, were really poor today. Horrible game, very disappointed with that. Big improvement needed and a few more bodies over the next few days

Elanga has been worse than Murphy

Great defending from Miley

Well the players I was crying to bring on, Hall, Elanga and Barnes, have all been as shit as the rest of them

We beat every team at the bottom last season home and away (almost)?

He’s going to bag isn’t he 😩

Great pass from Longstaff, probably been the best CM on the pitch. Typical 😂

Having a left footer at LWB and a right footer at RWB should make a difference

It’s about time a referee grew some balls and have a foul for blocking. It’s ridiculous

How’s that a foul by Osula. It’s a foul the other way!

We have the players to play our normal way though and have played very well in the first two games. Didn’t need a drastic change and it’s not working so should be changed

Good strike that, might take something special or scrappy

I don’t understand Howe’s thinking. He has never set up like this against weaker opposition except Everton (which was a horrible performance)

Miley on for Ramsay. Fuck me edit: no slight on Miley, just that we need to change formation

I want to see Pope Tino Schar Botman/Burn Hall Bruno Tonali Ramsay Elanga Osula Barnes Pretty early in this second half. Keep Osula on with a formation that will suit him more, he hasn’t been great but we need a focal point.