Bunk Moreland

"The protracted transfer is still possible, according to sources close to the matter." Also, Andy Howe doing the negotiations.

https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Mercato-lucas-chevalier-de-plus-en-plus-proche-du-psg/1581025

Sacha and his magnificent barnet have spoken

Genuinely heinous

I'm surprised Goncalo Ramos hasn't come up yet. We were linked to him a fair bit before we went for Isak.

Refusing to train? Disgusting. One of our players would never do such a thing

Just been subbed on

In the Sky Sports Germany article by Hinze (Tier 1 for Leipzig) he says it will depend on them offloading attacking players, and mentions Sesko but also Werner and Andre Silva potentially leaving (https://sport.sky.de/fussball/artikel/leipzig-mit-brasilianer-einig/13402126/35311) Still, I'm choosing to take it to mean Sesko is 100% coming and will be doing his medical tonight

What's the sauce for that?

Also Leipzig working on bringing in a new striker according to Hinze at Sky Sports Germany

They have no player available for sale worth engaging in this for though. If we did engineer something like this it would be to our disadvantage, even if we got someone at a discount or created some extra FFP headroom.

You can, but if you're going to be outlaying the money in FFP terms anyway as you outline, there's no reason to limit yourself to just Liverpool's players given that they only have dross available for sale.

None tbh, part exchange is bad for FFP. Need as much bookable profit as possible on the accounts so we have the freedom to go and buy who we actually want from elsewhere

Yeah, Ross's name being on that is sus when we have actual senior infrastructure project bods working on whatever's happening

You know, Quasimodo predicted all this

Jack Ross announcement was last Monday, Suds announcement this Monday. You know what that means for this Monday coming... (...new assistant to Andy Howe announced)

Casually included at the bottom of Martin Hardy's Isak/Sesko article (which contains zero new info on them) is: "Newcastle are close to announcing the appointment of David Hopkinson as chief executive and Ross Wilson as sporting director."

...and months and years!

Tier 1 for Leipzig apparently, broke the Szoboszlai to Liverpool story

Someone's done Luke there like

That is invariably true, but Isak has complete autonomy and could have stopped his agent acting this way after last week's drama if he was truly bothered by his behaviour. Instead things have escalated and become even worse this week, with Isak an active and willing participant in everything that's happening.

His agent tie him up so he couldn't get on the plane yesterday? If his agent was off the reservation and acting against Isak's wishes he would have stopped him long before things escalated to the point we're at now.