Magpie Mover

He should be but apparently he isn't. Surely some of this shambolic summer is on PIF?

Unfortunately PIF are turning out to be pretty rotten owners.

PIF could have stopped all of this nonsense weeks ago by publicly stating that Isak is not for sale, End of.

I doubt we are matching wages. Presumably there is a source for your claim?

Money.

I'm sure his preference is Man U, even if it's just for the money. We need to continue to try and buy players that want to play for us and that there is little or no competition for especially from the 6 clubs that have much more money than us. Elanga, Ramsdale already, should be Wissa next. It's an unpalatable reality but it is reality.

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This is an internet football forum for fuck sake, people getting into fights with each other and asking for apologies shows a complete lack of perspective. Get a grip, get a life, stop taking everything so seriously.

There is a huge amount of conjecture here from people who should know better. What do we know ? Isak didn't stay in Glasgow because the club wanted to keep him out of the limelight and he was injured anyhow. He didn't travel because he was injured or that is what the club told us. Somebody said he wanted to look at his options not sure who but i dont think it was Isak. He's currently training at his old club we don't know if NUFC knew or gave him permission to go there. Who says he's on strike, who says he wants to go to Liverpool, as far as ive heard nobody has said that. Probably best to stop regurgitating made up nonsense and wait until either Isak or the club say something.

Never forget that most footballers have a very limited education and a lot of them without being too unkind are not the brightest spark in the shed.

Well we need to buy someone and a relatively cheap, less than 50m Pacqueta would be a start.

The way things are going the football won't be much fun either.

Not if we keep isak.

If Wissa comes here it will be because of the huge wage increase he will get. If spurs offer him more he'll go there. We can all pretend it's more complicated than that but I don't imo believe it is.

The long list of players that we have missed out on this transfer window all have one thing in common, they signed for the club that offered them the highest wages.

As I mentioned in my post after money the second most important thing is where you live, and lots of people don't want to live in Saudi.

Footballers go to the club that pays the most money, that's undeniably with what's happening to us this summer.

It's all about money, players don't care about getting improved, they don't care about playing in the Champions League. They care about the salary they get and to a lesser extent where they live. That's it. Anybody thinking differently is kidding themselves.

He's not very good and not very good with his feet either.

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He won't sit on the bench all the time, Ortega played plenty of games last season as will Trafford.

It's all very well getting attached to the likes of Beardsley, Waddle and Gaza and being extremely depressed when they were sold, equally being invested in Miley and Burn and the other local lads at the club, however getting attached to the likes of Isak or Tonali or the rest of the current players whose number one priority is themselves and always will be, that's not clever and will just lead to the anger and depression that lots of the supporters are apparently going through. Isak wants to leave, sell him for a fortune and we can all sing fuck off the next time we see him.

He has huge negotiating power if he wants to be difficult and leave. Everybody always says don't keep an unhappy player, so if he decides he's unhappy because we won't pay him what he could earn elsewhere, or he's unhappy because the club is a shambles and we can't strengthen the team sufficiently to challenge for the title or the champion's league, he'll be off and there will be nothing we can do about it.

Liverpool would lose out heavily replacing Diaz with Gordon. He's the one we should sell if we need the money.

Well if PIF weren't already aware of our place in the food chain they have to be now, we are not allowed to eat at the top table and the players who do get to eat there don't want to come and play for us. We really need to seriously increase our revenue by any means possible by hook or by crook so we can start competing with the big dogs otherwise we remain what we are at the moment an increasingly annoying yapping but still small Jack Russell. Football is so fucked.