Alexander Isak - International C*nt

[oldtype]

5 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

We don't have psr issues as of now. 

Don’t know how anyone can say this with any confidence. We just spent close to 200m in transfer fees (pre-Isak sale) and probably increased our wage bill by a lot. The club’s revenue hasn’t suddenly doubled.

 

We were likely going to have to sell one of our best players at some point to fund continued spending and if we were, it might as well be the idiot who doesn’t want to be here.

[Nine]

6 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

You're missing my point. Their worth as players and their circumstances don't matter, how they acted is nigh on identical, how their clubs - both of who had power - responded, is night and day

I was not missing your point, I know what you’re saying. Unfortunately the circumstances do matter though. 

[toon25]

5 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

Even money now for Wissa to stay at Brentford.

 

Good.

 

[duo]

I need to sleep but I am too upset / angry - just beggars belief

[Vinny Green Balls]

for only $15 million more than their derisory offer, and with no Wilson replacement through the door? Absolutely not.

[BermyToon]

Is this a done deal? Or just more media speculation?

[JT24]

[r0cafella]

2 minutes ago, oldtype said:

Don’t know how anyone can say this with any confidence. We just spent close to 200m in transfer fees (pre-Isak sale) and probably increased our wage bill by a lot. The club’s revenue hasn’t suddenly doubled.

 

We were likely going to have to sell one of our best players at some point to fund continued spending and if we were, it might as well be the idiot who doesn’t want to be here.

It's a 3 year rolling cycle as of now we are ok. If not we have a year to fix it. 

[The College Dropout]

7 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I don’t think any of those signings other than Tonali were a ‘coup’ tbh - Isak had a shite season for Sociedad and wasn’t batting away other clubs with a shitty stick (do you really think after all this he’d have turned a big club down for ‘the project’?), Hall was bought for a LOT of cash from Chelsea’s reserves when they needed it for PSR, and Livramento was bought from a second division club.

 

We weren’t competing with bigger clubs for those signings - and even with Tonali, there wasn’t anyone else in for him, and I still have my suspicions that Milan let him go simply because they had an inkling of what was coming. 

They were all coups.  
 

Isak had been linked heavily to Arsenal 6 months prior. The shit season put everyone off but Isak is a long time wonderkid. He cost £60m after a bad season for a reason. 
 

Tino and Hall - we all thought we had signed future England fullbacks and that has turned out to be the case. Man U did a transfer review and said ‘why did we let Tino Livramento go to Newcastle?’ Similar with Hall. 
 

I do agree that we paid a premium for all of them. 

 

Botman, Trippier, Bruno all coups.  
 

All of these players heavily linked to clubs at a higher level or earmarked for international football.  
 

Like Dibling is a coup for Everton.  
 

Elanga, Thiaw, Ramsdale, Ramsey (injuries), not the same level of regard in the game. Larsen, Wissa - these are all Nick Pope level signings but on a massive fee.  Nick W granted, emerged as a top talent in 2025.  
 

If Amanda was here we would’ve landed Guehi imo. Thats the calibre of player we were signing when she was around. Nobody else was after him then either, 12 months later he’s off to Liverpool. 

[Vinny Green Balls]

Just now, toon25 said:

 

Good.

 

this is not good if we get no one in. It's asking for a serious problem with one striker who has never played in the league and another one who's just out of his element.

[oldtype]

Just now, r0cafella said:

It's a 3 year rolling cycle as of now we are ok. If not we have a year to fix it. 

The way you “fix it” is by selling players.

[toon25]

1 minute ago, JT24 said:

 

My heart fucking bleeds Luke, you silly cunt.

[r0cafella]

Just now, JT24 said:

Don't need to read your terrible takes to know what's going on as incompetence is never far. 

[Kid Icarus]

3 minutes ago, Nine said:

I was not missing your point, I know what you’re saying. Unfortunately the circumstances do matter though. 

They absolutely don't. As many of us have been saying for months, there are countless examples of players in the same position as Isak with the same furore and money involved who've been told no, you're not going on your terms.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2025 by Kid Icarus

[r0cafella]

Just now, oldtype said:

The way you “fix it” is by selling players.

Of course but you seem to be getting me confused. I've got no issues with selling players. I advocate for it. If I was in charge we'd have got money for Pope and Wilson a year or two ago

[toon25]

1 minute ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

this is not good if we get no one in. It's asking for a serious problem with one striker who has never played in the league and another one who's just out of his element.

 

Just struggling to see how 50+ million on a temporary fix is the answe

[toon25]

1 minute ago, r0cafella said:

Don't need to read your terrible takes to know what's going on as incompetence is never far. 

 

Bet his wife and kids were fucking delighted he was gone for so long over the summer

[The College Dropout]

15 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

I mean look at this man. This is what we're going in for?

 

Spending 50% of the fee on 50% the player, 29, afcon locked, with the same toxic traits

 

Or a player who's literally not for sale

 

 

It’s a shitshow. 

[Vinny Green Balls]

It's an answer since we have no goals at the moment. And it's only an answer because the club put itself into a position where it has to do something like that. These last two summers have been bad miscalculations to put it nicely.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2025 by Vinny Green Balls

[BermyToon]

3 minutes ago, oldtype said:

Don’t know how anyone can say this with any confidence. We just spent close to 200m in transfer fees (pre-Isak sale) and probably increased our wage bill by a lot. The club’s revenue hasn’t suddenly doubled.

 

We were likely going to have to sell one of our best players at some point to fund continued spending and if we were, it might as well be the idiot who doesn’t want to be here.

The £200M can be spread over ~5 years, so really comes out to about £40M for the year. Isak's sale, on the other hand, can be recognised 100% up front (minus whatever amortisation is remaining from buying him). That's my understanding anyway, happy to be corrected.

[Ronaldo]

FYI best you can get for Wissa to join us tomorrow is 8/11. Bookies think he’s more likely to join us than stay there.

[Toon1984]

1 minute ago, Gottlob said:

I know that others have broached this, but why have we buckled? It feels like there has been an air of inevitably about this ever since he announced his desire to explore a move. Is it because we did promise him something, or because we do have PSR concerns at least now having spent money on Thiaw, Ramsey and Woltemade? Did we think we might eke another season out of him only for the relationship to irrevocably sour?

I think because the owners have the best interests of NUFC in mind. There’s no emotion towards Liverpool (that is the true ‘fuck you’ to them - when you really don’t care about them). The importance is for our team and having that shit moping about in the background would seriously hit moral (he was never coming back to play well after what he said).

125 million ‘in the bank’ and a new forward and the project remains on track. With the rat around it likely wouldn’t have been.

[Stottie]

fwiw, Isak will likely now be on near 300k plus bonuses. Liverpool's wage bill, in their accounts, is about 450M. Yes they have more merch and PR people and commercial operations people than us in their organization, but their first team squad is no bigger and will likely be on 50% per player more. It won't be "just one or two special ones" as their fans claim.

[duo]

6 minutes ago, JT24 said:

tbf to him he was probably reporting what he was being told - only for the owners to crumble like a deck of cards. I was convinced we wouldn't sell - I mean why would we - no PSR issues and the Saudis have ambitions for us to be No 1.  And it would be mental to sell your best player and leave us short ahead of a CL campaign. Logically it made no sense.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2025 by duo

[Vinny Green Balls]

5 minutes ago, JT24 said:

what an utter self-aggrandizing bellend.