Optimistic Nut

Of course it is. It encourages the, "just sell the fucker" element, and makes people think we should just take the low ball £110-120m offers. They're absolute cunts of the highest order.

If they'd bid what we value him, I'd have been gutted but accepted it as one of those things. The whole way it's played out though, nah. Hope we keep him another year and would rather see him go to Bayern, PSG, Barcelona etc for £110-120m next summer.

If we can afford it/have the PSR room then I think we need to. Isak has been a cunt on this occasion but not a good look on our part for future talents or even our best players now, where they'd have to look elsewhere if they want paid the best in the world salaries.

Guaranteed football but probably a similar season as last year, or move to a better team, maybe not starting as many, but still enough plus Champions League football. Hopefully he picks us.

Does Murphy have 10+ assists without Isak...discuss.

"All parties want clarity". Sick of this, Liverpool have nowt in this. They bid £150m and then they can have their clarity. Fucking arseholes.

Difference is Isak is probably the best striker in the world.

To be fair, if we see him as being worth £150m, only right we view him that way in terms of wages. Doubt he'll get anywhere near £300k but could see him being given £180-200k

This and I think we'll still attempt the £60m market for proven quality. This isn't a bad fall back. It's why I'm pretty happy with how we've went about things.

La Liga is fucking tripe, like. We think the PL is bad in favour of the 5/6 clubs here, it's even worse for the big 2 over there.

Oh hell, just get him. What a player to be able to turn to at 60-70 minutes if you need something to turn a game.

Probably more like bidding £55m for a £75m rated player, but yeah, ridiculous if they thought that was a good opening offer.

"Waiting for encouragement" FFS man. Pay £150m, he goes to Liverpool. Don't offer £150m, he stays at Newcastle. It's fucking simple.

Seems a bit shit.

Grealish at £6.5m looks appealing now.

Only way I could see us go for Guehi now is if Schar somehow left, or Burn.

Joins end of the month, is he staying with us like Soo?

Nah, think he'll get a loan then just fade out until he leaves. Soo is the one.

To be fair to him, they won their first ever trophy by knocking us back and are in Europe in some form or the other. I don't think PL teams necessarily need the big money sales these days with the amount of money from TV. He'll feel vindicated in the end.

Think he's just a professional unlike someone else we know. I reckon if Palace had accepted, he'd have come.

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Might be miles off but I like some of Burnley's signings. A fair bit of PL experience in there. Interesting to see how Xhaka goes from just being a cog in one of the best teams in the league at Arsenal & Leverkusen, to being the one they'll pin all their hopes on and look to for inspiration.

Struggled at QPR didn't he? My guess is another loan or nominal fee from a Championship/League 1/ Scottish club.

Doesn't look like Ramsay will be starting just yet for Burnley so final final tweaks.