Famous Nick

would Liverpool have the balls to start Isak at St James in 2nd round if this transfer goes ahead in he meantime?

yes, Amanda had a feel of dynamics and current PL politics. hope a new CEO has same skills and someone with intention to improve things and move things forward.

horrible to think if we dont get top5 I also think Villa wont be good enough this time, so it will be 5 clubs of the big fat shit 6 most likely. and thats the whole points of PSR, dont forget 5th is only CL place as top clubs lobbied to give that extra place to top leagues not to Newcastle, Brighton, Villa etc get into CL but specifically for any club like those fucker have an off season and just miss out on top4 still be able to get into it. they didnt think at the time that Man Utd or Tottenham will end up in lower quarter of the table. so far it worked out nicely as stupid Tottenham finished 5th last season and it did not worth CL, but it did when we finished 5th haha.

we can set a deadline here to both Leipzig and Sesko. this will be 1st of September.

very little news on defender or midfielders. we may search the market in the background...

tomorrow proper training, moment of truth. we have two more friendlies Friday Espanyol, Saturday Atletico. I guess two very different teams will play for us. I guess Osula striker in one, Gordon the other? this Isak injury is imo just a hoax, his agent doesnt want us to play him and get an injury to mess the transfer. thats why he didnt play vs Celtic, didnt go on Asia tour and now surprise surprise still tiny injury to miss last two friendlies?

Howe is gonna be mad if we miss out on another big target. he will fire Andy Howe.:) what a fucking summer this is. Howe wanted early action, and now here we are. put in a bid of 10m for Wilson to WHU and call it a day with Isak staying.

the longer we take on this someone will come in and sign him. did they sign anyone upfront? losing Mbeumo and Wissa both, wtf are they gonna do?

we need to somehow fuck Liverpool. like get in Sesko and then go absurd with the price for Isak. like we dont listen to offers under 250m world record bid. as a payback for the Ekitike saga. and if Isak is unhappy we can offer a way out for him to Saudi league with 3x salary of what he would get at Liverpool. otherwise we go 442...

one thing is clear, we cannot go into the Villa game with Osula or Gordon as a striker. that game coming up quick. I hope they lose Watkins til we play them haha. if Isak still here he needs to play. he cannot be sold without proper replacement either.

as both clubs imo offered what Leipzig originally wanted or extremely close to it this is now simply down to Sesko and his agent. if he goes to Man Utd he will be a huge flop just like Antony, Hojlund and many others. the player need to make a wise choice, and see what we did with our signings how we improved them and what Man Utd did. talk to Sancho he also arrived to them from Bundesliga. I bet he regrets it...

the division at PIF responsible for Saudi league transfers need to talk to our PIF people. this cannot go on that they bankroll all our rivals here and there. its one thing making cheap transfers from them and offer high salaries to players but this overpaying transfer fees for flops is nonsense. Liverpool will be well over 100m sales raked in after Fabinho, Henderson, Nunez. they wanted to get rid of all those as they were big time past their best, or flopped hard, yet getting fees they wouldnt even get half of that from a buyer in Europe. would anyone in Europe give us 20m for Trippier now? impossible. Chelsea also serious revenue from likes of Koulibaly, Joao Felix etc. I bet Mn United hoping Saudi clubs looking at Antony, Sancho etc.

yep any side we can finish higher will be very sweet of the big 6. we may or may not reach CL places, but I want at least one of the big 6 behind us o the table. ideally Liverpool haha, but realistically its also ok if we can help keeping out Spurs and Man United out of CL, as that should hit their finances badly and they are the ones who are already on the fence with their recent under performance. what will be tricky for us is the actual CL schedule and those few times where we have two tricky PL games like away to Brighton, home vs Arsenal and inbetween a tough away game to Barca, PSG, Inter etc. we deffo have 2-3 of these fixture nightmares after September, and with our high tempo style it really needs to click.

I dont like Jackson. I dont think his ceiling is very high unlike Sesko or Isak when we got him. Jackson's decision making is seriously bad, and almost cost Chelsea the CL with his stupid antics of getting a red and 3 match ban. he is just not very clever. clearly Chelsea rates both Delap and J. Pedro higher than him. in a perfect summer I would have got Delap to replace Wilson and none of this Isak saga would be happening. total 30m spend on striker position and focus on the other departments. now its a compete different summer

was there any training today? or maybe a late afternoon one? I want a picture where Tindall is being held back by others when notices Isak on the training pitch.

who offered 70m for him?

pretty sure Man United does not have all this money they spending. no CL, lot less home games which is a big hit for them as they have the highest attendance in England, basically they will have 19 home games in PL, and anywhere between about 0-4 in the domestic cups. if they lose out early away from home then could even be only 19 home games all season. they had 30 home games last season, each of that can be serious income drop... they also got something like 30m pounds from EL, which is also dropping to zero now. they had to fire 100s of low paid staff recent times. already spent big on Cunha, Mbeumo, while further big holes in their squad. their sales aint good yet, with likes of Antony, Sancho, Malacia not even training with them imo and waiting for some late offers. they managed to get Rashford off the wage list for a year at least but couldnt sell him yet. I think if they can go and spend big on Sesko too, there will some PSR loopole here, maybe they get another huge covid allowance years after covid issues.

Can we not look at recruitment of Leipzig? likes of Szoboszlai, Gvardiol, Nkunku, Olmo, Sesko, I dont think any of them cost them more than 30m pounds. then they flip them in 2-3 seasons for 2-2.5x price. of course they cannot build on them imagine if they managed to keep all these and slowly add to them, would be easily a side ready to go head to head with Bayern each year. wouldnt mind one transfer each summer of this profile younger, high potential transfers, max 30m fee, at worst they can become important squad players, at best potential is regular starter. we kind of did this with Hall and Livramento, timing need to be good at these deals.

I am pretty sure Liverpool wont make another bid until they have in writing that PIF does overpay them for Darwin "Flop" Nunez They bought him for 65m+20m addons from Benfica, flopped badly and still about to get 60m or so from PIF for him. fucking madness. what we should do is make Liverpool offer 150m for Isak then straight have another Saudi club offer the same. that way they cannot come with the related party shit and fair value as we have the same value bid so it must be fair value. only trouble would be to then push Isak to choose Saudi club, but I bet they can make him a salary offer several time better than Liverpool to make him think.

I will be honest, I have a very strong feeling he wants to use as a stepping stone as Isak did.

surely we cannot miss out on another attacker. if we do then Isak cannot be sold.

maybe they want to play him this weekend in the community shield, and then sell him. is it even clear if they play Conference or Europa league or still pending? does not seem they have much ambition to kick on after the FA cup success. would be a good addition for us, and we offer CL too.

tomorrow training should be fun. Burn and Trippier will ask Isak about all this mess tomorrow. and then Tindall comes at him fuming...

I bet Isak expected Liverpool to come in with a proper offer before this week ad close the deal so he can avoid coming back to training to face Howe, Tindall and the squad.

I think early morning hours of Monday squad lands in England. have the day off, and then back to training Tuesday with Tindall ready to put them through the drills. Howe already will get involved with the transfer people maybe Yasir too on Monday to hurry things. its one thing to sort out this whole Isak/new strikers problem, there are other holes in the squad too. Moment of truth on Tuesday for Isak, if he turns up fro training and what happens if he does. surely others is squad will ask him about all this mess he created. Two more friendlies in the schedule but the Villa game coming up quick too. less than two weeks, we need to get stuff done in that time.