Alexander Isak - C*nt (resting his glass bones so he can get properly injured at the world cup)

[bobbydazzla]

9 minutes ago, Ankles Bennett said:

Looking at what Liverpool are doing in the transfer market it seems to me they are simply buying success so how can Isak think he is going to earn trophies by going to Liverpool.  This is Liverpool all over going back to 70's and 80's.  They did the same back then by buying the top players from their competitors such as Rush, Toshack, Aldridge, Cormack, Beardsley, Dalgliesh to name few.  Their modus operendai is to buy success and to me any such trophies won are worthless so rock on Alex and sell your soul for a few worthess store bought trophies!!!

I must have been off my lips on Bostik in the 70’s and 80’s when Chester, Cardiff, Oxford United, NUFC and Celtic were Liverpool’s competitors, because I have no recollection of it whatsoever 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 27, 2025 by bobbydazzla

[Palestoon]

4 minutes ago, tarie4 said:

I bet things will be sorted by Friday, whether Isak's staying or going. I doubt Liverpool will offer 140/50. They'll probably stick with the 120/30 they were planning. If he's off, that's probably what the club will have to take, I reckon. It'll be interesting to see how we play this.

I bet our star players and their agents are watching what's going on. A bad precedent this

If we took a bid of 130 and we're taking a huge L here. Liverpool getting Ekitike ahead of us then Isak? Their fans will be going nuts about how we crumbled before the almighty Liverpool. They'll be so annoying, insufferable and cocky. 😒😒

 

Wish Yasir could pull of a Greek on Liverpool, like Forest did to spurs over MGW.

 

That's an aspect I don't think we're talking about enough. The long term knock on effects for the club if we bend to the pressure and sell.

 

For the last few years, we've made it clear as a club, we're not just part of the EPL furniture. We want to compete at the very top. What message does it send to our players, potential signings, and the league as a whole if we sell a player with a 3 yr contract to a team we are claiming to be on equal footing with?

 

Let's be realistic. We had a great season last year, and squeaked into the champions league with no European football on the schedule.

 

Unless we suddenly become competent and sign 5 quality players after Isak goes, the team will be worse off. 

 

Next summer we'll be sitting here after an 8th place finish with players like tonali, livrsmento, Gordon thinking, "why shouldn't we be at an elite club playing champions league every season? Isak got his wish, I can probably get the same thing"

 

It would undo most of the hardwork we've accomplished in the last few years building up the club. Disastrous situation

 

 

[Whitley mag]

Coutinho went to Barca for 142 million in 2018 there’s your benchmark.

 

200 million, or fuck off you scouse cunts.

[PauloGeordio]

2 minutes ago, Palestoon said:

 

That's an aspect I don't think we're talking about enough. The long term knock on effects for the club if we bend to the pressure and sell.

 

For the last few years, we've made it clear as a club, we're not just part of the EPL furniture. We want to compete at the very top. What message does it send to our players, potential signings, and the league as a whole if we sell a player with a 3 yr contract to a team we are claiming to be on equal footing with?

 

Let's be realistic. We had a great season last year, and squeaked into the champions league with no European football on the schedule.

 

Unless we suddenly become competent and sign 5 quality players after Isak goes, the team will be worse off. 

 

Next summer we'll be sitting here after an 8th place finish with players like tonali, livrsmento, Gordon thinking, "why shouldn't we be at an elite club playing champions league every season? Isak got his wish, I can probably get the same thing"

 

It would undo most of the hardwork we've accomplished in the last few years building up the club. Disastrous situation

 

 

Think the club have already spoken via Baldwards. Isak is not for sale!

[Holloway]

strong whiff of inevitability about this, he's off to Liverpool at some stage. As has been mentioned, recent outgoing deals have shown that our valuations have come up perfectly acceptable is keeping me from the dread of any sort of capitulation from upstairs on an Isak sale. Eddie knows his value and you'd think he'd be shouting it. Fuck knows how it unfolds if he does stay another year

[PauloGeordio]

2 minutes ago, Holloway said:

strong whiff of inevitability about this, he's off to Liverpool at some stage. As has been mentioned, recent outgoing deals have shown that our valuations have come up perfectly acceptable is keeping me from the dread of any sort of capitulation from upstairs on an Isak sale. Eddie knows his value and you'd think he'd be shouting it. Fuck knows how it unfolds if he does stay another year

If his head is right, and Eddie is happy with it he'll be fine and keep banging them in. If not Eddie will want him gone, so as not to disrupt the group.

[Adam P]

1 hour ago, Andy said:

 

He used to post on here. He lost his love for the club during the Ashley era iirc. 

It was a previous iteration of this board wasn’t it? I used to chat with him, he told me he was going to be a journalist. Fair play to him. 

[Kanj]

49 minutes ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

 

He'll still be picking up his wage as well, which is my biggest pet peeve in situations like this

Yeah should be given a fine ffs. No doubt club media and PR team had mapped out what he was to do out in Singapore and Korea as well. 
 

I really never thought Isak would do this.

[Wandy]

22 minutes ago, Ankles Bennett said:

Looking at what Liverpool are doing in the transfer market it seems to me they are simply buying success so how can Isak think he is going to earn trophies by going to Liverpool.  This is Liverpool all over going back to 70's and 80's.  They did the same back then by buying the top players from their competitors such as Rush, Toshack, Aldridge, Cormack, Beardsley, Dalgliesh to name few.  Their modus operendai is to buy success and to me any such trophies won are worthless so rock on Alex and sell your soul for a few worthess store bought trophies!!!

There’s desperate posts, and then there’s this. 

[Dokko]

Cba seeing him mope around the pitch putting in half arsed effort for the season because he didn't get his move. Rather he be gone than see that. Enough of it with Gordon last season.

[Novocastrian]

We’re going to bend over and take 120-130m aren’t we? Does anyone think our absentee landlord is going has the resolve to tell Liverpool it’s 150m or get fucked?

[Menace]

Imagine if he stays and has a serious injury, and that harms his price for next summer.

 

Just get him gone, it's inevitable anyway.

[Palestoon]

6 minutes ago, Holloway said:

strong whiff of inevitability about this, he's off to Liverpool at some stage. As has been mentioned, recent outgoing deals have shown that our valuations have come up perfectly acceptable is keeping me from the dread of any sort of capitulation from upstairs on an Isak sale. Eddie knows his value and you'd think he'd be shouting it. Fuck knows how it unfolds if he does stay another year

 

I feel like that's the narrative the media are trying to force onto us.

 

We don't need to sell. We have money to spend. Keep Isak, and sign 3 players (wissa, CB, CM) and the squad is much stronger than last year.

 

Use this year to sort out CEO, director of football, future stadium and training ground plans, and then revisit in the summer. Sell Isak for a boatload in June and continue to build. Selling him now would set off the domino's that could effectively cripple the future of the club

[Alberto2005]

I'd rather a moody Isak than Wissa and Osula.

 

My main concern is how it effects the squad, one of our biggest strengths has been team spirit him staying wouldn't help it.

[Thomson Mouse]

3 minutes ago, Wandy said:

There’s desperate posts, and then there’s this. 

 

There’s a bit of truth to that apart maybe from the last sentence. 

 

The ‘boot room’ stuff wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the Littlewoods/Littlewoods pools owners injecting a lot of money back then.

 

This conveniently gets left out of the righteous Scouse story though.

[madras]

5 minutes ago, Wandy said:

There’s desperate posts, and then there’s this. 

I didn't  reply  because I thought it was a not very good piss take.

[Jonas]

17 minutes ago, Ghandis Flip-Flop said:

They also spent a shit ton in the 90’s and won very little. I dunno about everyone else but I don’t think they were great second half of last season. They’ve lost their main creator of chances and are going to have to completely change the way they play. There’s just as big a chance this goes tits up, as there’s a case of them dominating again

Coincidentally beginning at exactly the same time as Greame Souness arrived on the scene.

[Pearljam10]

4 minutes ago, Menace said:

Imagine if he stays and has a serious injury, and that harms his price for next summer.

 

Just get him gone, it's inevitable anyway.

Imagine if he win us the CL and sign a new contract. 

 

 

Edited July 27, 2025 by Pearljam10

[madras]

1 minute ago, Thomson Mouse said:

 

There’s a bit of truth to that apart maybe from the last sentence. 

 

The ‘boot room’ stuff wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the Littlewoods/Littlewoods pools owners injecting a lot of money back then.

 

This conveniently gets left out of the righteous Scouse story though.

What about the "buying from their competitors" bit ? 

[Superior Acuña]

I think if he stays he'll still be quality, even if he's not too happy. He's an ambitious pro, I imagine he cares a lot about his stats etc. - he'll still be wanting to bang them in, and sure he'd love to win another a trophy too before he goes. His career is too short to throw a season at this stage.

[Thomson Mouse]

1 minute ago, madras said:

What about the "buying from their competitors" bit ? 

 

Yeah some of that is fair as well. Doesn’t take away from the fact that they spent a lot of money back then, yet it’s conveniently overlooked.

[Ankles Bennett]

5 minutes ago, Wandy said:

There’s desperate posts, and then there’s this. 

So what's desperate.  It's the truth the bin dippers are the football version of vampires!!!

[madras]

2 minutes ago, Thomson Mouse said:

 

Yeah some of that is fair as well. Doesn’t take away from the fact that they spent a lot of money back then, yet it’s conveniently overlooked.

No disagreement there and as someone has pointed out there legacy was built on doing a Chelsea/Man City in the 60s.

[Jonas]

6 minutes ago, Thomson Mouse said:

 

Yeah some of that is fair as well. Doesn’t take away from the fact that they spent a lot of money back then, yet it’s conveniently overlooked.

Aldridge, Barnes, Houghton, Beardsley and Rush in just over a year back then had to be about the biggest spending spree anyone had done in England. Everton had finished above them and were their nearest challengers spent hardly anything.

Course, speaking of organically built success, Ferguson blew it out the water a year later  -probably spent more than three quarters of the division combined.

 

 

Edited July 27, 2025 by Jonas

[LaurentRobert]

36 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Erm, DCL doesn’t play for us, I don’t know why so many people think he does. 

Eddie Howe is known to be an admirer, and when Sesko inevitably choses Manure, we will probably sign him on a free out of desperation