Alexander Isak - International C*nt

[Gottlob]

19 minutes ago, tarie4 said:

Look, Suarez was training and playing, but Isak wasn't. Same with Kane and the others. They all acted up, but they still played and trained. Isak completely cut ties with Newcastle. He didn't train or play. We're three games in, and he's not even on the bench. Comparing that to others who threw a fit but still played is just wrong.

 

When that meeting on Monday didn't go well, it was over.

 

Like I said, if the club thought they could bring him back, he'd stay. Him leaving shows there was no way back for him.

 

Suarez was training alone and missed the start of the season anyway because he had a ten-match ban for biting someone and Kane returned late for the pre-season, trained alone and missed the first couple of games due an alleged injury before being reintegrated into the squad. Isak has been unusually obstinate or bloody-minded but it's a difference of degree rather than an unprecedented situation.

[CallumG6]

PIF establishing themselves as a paper tiger the way they've capitulated here.

 

When you consider the disgusting methods from Liverpool, using media shills, unsettling and tapping up the player whilst completely derailing our pre-season and first 3 games, the fee we've come to an agreement on is a bitter pill to swallow. Throw in the manner of our defeat to them last week.

 

Better to not dwell on what's happened, but lessons absolutely have to be learned here. Saudis might have all the money in the world, but they've got a lot to learn in how to run a football club, played like a cheap fiddle by Liverpool.

 

If they had any sense, from a PR perspective, they'd announce the new director of football this week to take the edge off.

 

Another striker coming in is a non-negotiable, if we go into this season with Woltemade and Osula, it's an absolute disaster and us fans will be rightly onto them.

[Vinny Green Balls]

1 minute ago, Gottlob said:

 

Suarez was training alone and missed the start of the season anyway because he had a ten-match ban for biting someone and Kane returned late for the pre-season, trained alone and missed the first couple of games due an alleged injury before being reintegrated into the squad. Isak has been unusually obstinate or bloody-minded but it's a difference of degree rather than an unprecedented situation.

that's how I would frame it as well. Not unprecedented, but Isak has held out longer for the most part.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2025 by Vinny Green Balls

[Kid Icarus]

On 15/08/2025 at 22:13, Kid Icarus said:

Wish more than just me and a few people on here listened to cumtown. Keep thinking about Nick's loathing of his ex-landlord and him casually wondering "what if I just killed this motherfucker?""

 

 

 

 

No one else's brain keep doing this?

[Kimbo]

My theory which I’m choosing to believe is that PIF value their relationship with Liverpool and ESL clubs in general too much to take a hardline against their interests.

[Nucasol]

Just now, Kimbo said:

My theory which I’m choosing to believe is that PIF value their relationship with Liverpool and ESL clubs in general too much to take a hardline against their interests.

Cowards.

[M4]

"Only wants Liverpool"

 

Forever a fucking freak this guy.

[tarie4]

10 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

They sold a 30 year old with 1 year left on his contract. They had just finished 8th in the league.  No CL football. A player everyone knew wanted to leave. An unhappy fanbase. 1 buyer in the market.  
 

The only leverage they had was the negotiation reputation and acumen of Daniel Levy 

Nah, Isak ain't Kane, man. Kane's scoring record is way better.

 

A 30-year-old Kane is still worth more than a 26-year-old Isak in this market.

 

Sorry, but this is a bad comparison.

 

Levy knew he had one of the best strikers ever in the epl making his bargaining position strong. Isak's good, but it's silly to compare them.

[duo]

5 minutes ago, Kimbo said:

My theory which I’m choosing to believe is that PIF value their relationship with Liverpool and ESL clubs in general too much to take a hardline against their interests.

More like relationship with PIF and the Fenway Group to keep the stream of players going to their Saudi League. Not only have PIF sold him cheap they have given them half the money to pay for the transfer.  Liverpool have taken advantage of that.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2025 by duo

[Kimbo]

2 minutes ago, Nucasol said:

Cowards.

Self-interest. Saudi’s are backing the CWC and they will be backing any future super league.

[LFEE]

1 minute ago, M4 said:

"Only wants Liverpool"

 

Forever a fucking freak this guy.

 

He apparently does birthday messages also for a fee if you want one? 

[Stifler]

5 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

 

No one else's brain keep doing this?

Prison is the answer.

The only real threat to people not committing major crimes like that is prison and nothing to do with morals.

It’s what makes sociopaths so dangerous, the threat of losing their freedom is no threat to them.

[The College Dropout]

15 minutes ago, Shays Given Tim Flowers said:

 

Bullshit, they had revenue that allowed them to adopt that position of strength.  I don't doubt that no sporting director and our usual way of making decisions has left us a little soft but it's daft to compare the hands of the two clubs. 

 

 

 

Spurs have no intention of spending their PSR limits. Spurs business model is to make actual money. Spurs personally enriches Levy. If they didn’t sell Kane in that window they would have got max. £30-50m in January and that’s with a desperate buyer. 
 

They had to sell him in that window. Only had 1 buyer. And they got their fee. 
 

You’re giving Levy no credit for being a tough seller.  

[Gottlob]

Howe is as temperate as they come and I'm sure fairly understanding but he places a high value on leadership and team harmony and has shown in the past that there's a line you don't cross. Ryan Fraser is one example and there have also been rumours of a falling out with Longstaff.

 

If Howe was adamant that he had to be sold then fair enough. My sense though is that from the start of the transfer window we've been trying to facilitate Isak's eventual departure and the club as a whole deserves plenty of blame for the situation we've end up in, scrambling over the last few hours of the transfer window having sold a world-class striker for a compromised fee.

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

I'm not saying anything about Levy, just that it's not the straightforward comparison you paint it as. I'm not even trying to persuade you as to anything as I've got far more sense than that.  Just you know it's important that someone peridocially posts a counterpoint to your deluge of posts.

[jack j]

12 hours ago, jack j said:

I think we will sell and i think we will bid a stupid amount for Wissa and sign him

 

 

 

Call me mystic meg

 

Or if I was on twitter, ITK King

[Nucasol]

7 minutes ago, LFEE said:

 

He apparently does birthday messages also for a fee if you want one? 

Sign me up. Can I draft the text? Caveat needed that it will feature abuse and alliteration.

[KennyUtd]

50 minutes ago, Dan Gleebals said:

Assuming he is on £250K a week, the total contract over 6 years (reported length) would be £78M.  Agents typically get between 5-10% of salary, and the fee is paid over the length of the contract.  So up to £7.8M.  

Fuck sake...

[Taylor Swift]

PIF as a paper tiger. I've read it all.

 

PIF is a sovereign wealth fund that's regularly topped up with shares of Saudi Aramco, the 2nd best money printer in the world after the Federal Reserve, with assets of more than $1tn.

 

Fenway Sports Group has assets worth - at most - $15bn. They are not in the same stratosphere.

 

We need to chill out a bit and let this play out over 3-5 years.

[Paulinho]

Just now, Taylor Swift said:

PIF as a paper tiger. I've read it all.

 

PIF is a sovereign wealth fund that's regularly topped up with shares of Saudi Aramco, the 2nd best money printer in the world after the Federal Reserve, with assets of more than $1tn.

 

Fenway Sports Group has assets worth - at most - $15bn. They are not in the same stratosphere.

 

We need to chill out a bit and let this play out over 3-5 years.

But that’s the point. PIF have one strategy - throw money at something. If that doesn’t work (because of PSR) they’ve not got much in the locker. 

[The College Dropout]

8 minutes ago, duo said:

More like relationship with PIF and the Fenway Group to keep the stream of players going to their Saudi League. Not only have PIF sold him cheap they have given them half the money to pay for the transfer.  Liverpool have taken advantage of that.

 

 

 

This should actually work in our favour. PIF steadily with Liverpool players above market rates and will continue to do so.   Do they use this to our advantage? No.  
 

They could have even inflated the Nunez fee further on the understanding they would inflate the Isak fee.  
 

No need. FSG outmanoeuvred PIF at every turn.  

[Lish007]

I dont think its bad we sold. 

 

Its a good cash bump for a player that wanted to win titles and CL titles. We are just not there yet. Liverpool have had their shares of laughable transfers over the years- this is a transfer summer they have got right. But they've been laughable for a long time before this - now is their time to dominate. We just need to suck it up.  

 

We are not there yet, we have a lot to learn. But we will. Enjoy the journey.

 

Rome wasn't built in a day. 

 

 

Edited September 1, 2025 by Lish007

[Taylor Swift]

Just now, Paulinho said:

But that’s the point. PIF have one strategy - throw money at something. If that doesn’t work (because of PSR) they’ve not got much in the locker. 

Because they know they can throw in money and money actually solves problems in football. What's the point in keeping Isak and going through all the hassle with him?

 

They can we're in the CL, Sela can pay more for sponsorship or whatever. Pump in another 50m/year. They'll find ways to pump in money.

[BottledDog]

23 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

 

No one else's brain keep doing this?

 

Thankfully, no.

[CallumG6]

3 minutes ago, Taylor Swift said:

PIF as a paper tiger. I've read it all.

 

PIF is a sovereign wealth fund that's regularly topped up with shares of Saudi Aramco, the 2nd best money printer in the world after the Federal Reserve, with assets of more than $1tn.

 

Fenway Sports Group has assets worth - at most - $15bn. They are not in the same stratosphere.

 

We need to chill out a bit and let this play out over 3-5 years.

 

Thanks for the financial update, but despite their net worth, they've been out-thought and made to look weak by a sports group not in the same stratosphere.