Adam P Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 Just trying to get a handle on whats happening. Is this right? We bid 70m on Monday, Eintracht want 86m. Since then no more bids from us and Liverpool are flirting with a bid possibly at 86m but not confirmed. Meanwhile Isak's agent has let Liverpool know that a bid could be interesting becaue the agent wants to strengthen contract discussions. Liverpool happy to play along as a higher salary for Isak increases the chances of us being willing to sell in the next 12 months. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Cardigan Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 1 minute ago, Stal said: I mean, would I want to join a club that was only buying me out of spite? Ekitike has already proved he’s not exactly a deep thinker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucasol Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 Thread title change. Not before time. Let the drama and dust settle and we go again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0cafella Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 Just now, Adam P said: Just trying to get a handle on whats happening. Is this right? We bid 70m on Monday, Eintracht want 86m. Since then no more bids from us and Liverpool are flirting with a bid possibly at 86m but not confirmed. Meanwhile Isak's agent has let Liverpool know that a bid could be interesting becaue the agent wants to strengthen contract discussions. Liverpool happy to play along as a higher salary for Isak increases the chances of us being willing to sell in the next 12 months. What we know is. We tried to buy ekitike and Liverpool then approached us for Isak. We rebuffed them and now they are also interested in Ekitke. We do not know who is responsible for what or who encouraged who. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeloEmre Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 Just now, Crimson Cardigan said: Ekitike has already proved he’s not exactly a deep thinker. How? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danswan Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 He has thin straw arms like Isak. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emotic Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 10 minutes ago, KaKa said: Both he and Sesko have the best physical and athletic profiles of the young up and coming strikers. They are big, athletic and quick. However, Sesko surpasses Samu technically. The ball will bounce off Samu a fair bit and he can look awkward on the ball at times. Think Sesko is much further along in that regard. Both have immense potential. Samu reminds me a great deal of Taiwo Awoniyi. Power, pace, not super technically refined. Seems like we're after players with great technique, as much as possible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycap Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 No bid from Liverpool why would he prefer them then? Just made up nonsense until they actually place a bid down and I bet you it's not higher than ours. They'll be hoping the anfield sway will get him cheaper. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 3 minutes ago, Stal said: I mean, would I want to join a club that was only buying me out of spite? I’m imagining you typing this with tongue firmly in cheek. As in nobody can seriously believe that this would be a reason, even partly, for that kind of spending. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam P Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 2 minutes ago, r0cafella said: What we know is. We tried to buy ekitike and Liverpool then approached us for Isak. We rebuffed them and now they are also interested in Ekitke. We do not know who is responsible for what or who encouraged who. The candidate list for 'who encouraged' cant be very long? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty__mag Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 (edited) Arnaud Kalimuendo/ Jonathan Burkardt/ Nick Woltemade/ Mohamed Amoura/ Tolu Arokodare/ Daniel Karlsbakk/ Samu/ Willem Geubbels/ Victor Osimhen/ Rômulo Cardoso. There you go, plenty more fish in the sea. Edited July 17, 2025 by mighty__mag Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycap Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 Liverpool are hoping to shift nunez that's why they'll be trying to stall our deal until they have some spare cash. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0cafella Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 Just now, Adam P said: The candidate list for 'who encouraged' cant be very long? I don't think they needed any encouragement, and the timing of it suggest the encouragement was us buying ekitke and replacing Isak in advance. If your pointing the finger at the nebulous isak agent your pointing it at Isak as his agent is working on his clients behalf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycap Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 Why change the thread title? We have actually bid for the lad. 😂 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0cafella Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 Just now, andycap said: Why change the thread title? We have actually bid for the lad. 😂 Because the bid was rejected and it's all gone quiet apart from engagement baiting? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 It ain't over until it's over Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BergenMagpie Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 2 minutes ago, mighty__mag said: Arnaud Kalimuendo Hope we goes for him, looks class. Would save us a lot of money for other positions too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stal Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 4 minutes ago, Coffee_Johnny said: I’m imagining you typing this with tongue firmly in cheek. As in nobody can seriously believe that this would be a reason, even partly, for that kind of spending. Little bit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheicksCalfs Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 8 minutes ago, Nucasol said: Thread title change. Not before time. Let the drama and dust settle and we go again. Called it yesterday Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 4 minutes ago, Emotic said: Samu reminds me a great deal of Taiwo Awoniyi. Power, pace, not super technically refined. Seems like we're after players with great technique, as much as possible. Yeah, you're not wrong. It can all look a bit awkward at times with them getting a hold of the ball. Samu is still really young and so has time on his side to continue to improve, but work still needed in that area for sure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Adam P said: Just trying to get a handle on whats happening. Is this right? We bid 70m on Monday, Eintracht want 86m. Since then no more bids from us and Liverpool are flirting with a bid possibly at 86m but not confirmed. Meanwhile Isak's agent has let Liverpool know that a bid could be interesting becaue the agent wants to strengthen contract discussions. Liverpool happy to play along as a higher salary for Isak increases the chances of us being willing to sell in the next 12 months. And the massive caveat to all of this is that all of the information is coming from journos on Twatter, so there’s a huge amount of speculation and lies to get clicks. As well as agents and clubs paying them to push an agenda So it’s best to assume that 99% of what you read is absolute bollocks and meanwhile in the real world, what will be, will be Edited July 17, 2025 by bobbydazzla Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycap Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 1 minute ago, r0cafella said: Because the bid was rejected and it's all gone quiet apart from engagement baiting? Still we know we are still interested in him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 If we don’t get him, no problem. Use the money for Scalvini and from Atalanta (or players just as good). Trafford hopefully incoming. Find a back up 9/10 type, maybe a project player and crack on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam P Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 Just now, r0cafella said: I don't think they needed any encouragement, and the timing of it suggest the encouragement was us buying ekitke and replacing Isak in advance. If your pointing the finger at the nebulous isak agent your pointing it at Isak as his agent is working on his clients behalf. Not pointing, just trying to work out whats happening. If Liverpool have been encouraged and thats true, it can only come from a limited list. Nothing about the transfer market suggests to me that agents only place anonymous encouragement to clubs with the express permission of the player. I liked your summary anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelveys Hair Posted July 17, 2025 Share Posted July 17, 2025 I'm thinking Liverpool need to sell first. They apparently spoke to us about Isak but made no offer and they said they'd pay more than us for Ekitike, but again made no offer. They need to shift Nunez and seeing if Diaz fooks off. People seem to be shitting themselves at the thought of us having Isak and Ekitike in the same team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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