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Bid £150m or so and we'd likely open the door for that amount. Until then, there's no news.

Think for my own sanity I'm just going to stick to the official line, he has a small injury, he's training alone while he considers his options. The rest is all fluff and noise at the minute.

If Isak goes I think we do start needing to make more noise. "We wanted to pay him more, we wanted to sign the players around him to keep him, but PSR dictates that..." To be fair, Howe did say a few times last season that we only sold Anderson & Minteh for PSR reasons. That could have been the difference between top 3 and top 5 last season. I want more of that from above though.

We'll get the unnecessary non-updates from Romano later about how Liverpool still haven't officially bid.

Only thing I'm disappointed with from them is the lack of (at least publicly) challenging PSR for what it is. I know people knock the commercial growth but I think we're realistically where we should be with that if we're growing "organically". I'm even not that fussed if they're taking their time with getting the correct CEO/Director of Football appointments right after being stung so far with their decisions. I would like Howe for instance though in his pressers saying we have the means to pay top dollar for our targets or to keep our best players, or Al Rumayyan saying similar. If this is how it is then fair enough, we'll still have a lot of fun competing between 4th & 7th and winning trophies, but it's frustrating knowing what we could have. I don't think 4-7th is what PIF signed up for, maybe they were naive and thought some rules would have changed by now. I just wish as a club we made a bit more fuss.

You'd think the rest of the players will see there own pockets boosted with bonuses and more chance of a successful season if they have Isak up front.

That's a different story. If he's not with the squad I'd sooner him not be here. If he's not back when the squad comes back though, again, different story.

Could you have imagined the even bigger circus if he was training here? Press outside the training ground every day...

If he was in Newcastle, he'd be getting hounded by the press. Probably a sensible move.

We have several times, it's still not been enough.

"Sunderland is well known for?" *Can't say Newcastle.* "Great club".

Simply just don't bid for Sesko and keep Isak if it's this straight forward.

Ndidi still available for £9m. Linked with Man Utd & Saudi.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ZMkvwDnH6/ What in the fuck. "Looking forward to playing alongside?" *Oh shit, I know no-one.* "EVERYONE!"

Happier with this the more I think about it tbh. Hope he goes in as first choice, think we can improve the way we play with him in goal.

A month to go and we have 2 of the 4/5 (if Isak goes) areas that we critically needed pretty much wrapped up with Elanga & Ramsdale. RCB Backup striker and CM Striker if Isak goes to go.

Urgh that's awful.

Unlikely to happen but I'd prefer him to come out in a week or two saying he was exploring his options and wants to stay. Players are going to have their head turned but I'd sooner try and keep our world class players.

It's because of clubs like Liverpool that PSR is such a thing, which is stopping us giving Isak the wages his profile deserves now or signing the players to convince him he can achieve all of his goals here.

https://ebay.us/m/pym4FQ Was their stadium but the same design template.

Aye, Rangers had a couple of them, pretty sure they had a city skyline one of their own too. I'm sure I remember seeing Tim Flowers in one or two of the Asics ones, too.

Wouldn't be surprised if this is the one we do.

Hypothetical scenario, we tell Isak he can go for £100m next summer (now only 2 years left on contract) if he gives us one more year, would you accept?

What's the Pope PSR situation if someone gave £10-12m for instance?

"Football tactics writer".