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Personally, I'm just gutted Amanda put us in the shit with PSR when we signed this guy. I'm troubled that our scouting methodology even put him on the table as an option to buy.

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34 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Do these people understand we have absolutely no need to sell. One of them laughed at 150m but why on earth would we sell for less?

 

The media are totally delusional. 

So Arsenal fans saying they should get £130 million for Saliba if he goes Real Madrid. But Isak - probably the best striker in the world right now - is only worth £100 million according to them. No wonder they are so disliked. 

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2 minutes ago, 80 said:

Personally, I'm just gutted Amanda put us in the shit with PSR when we signed this guy. I'm troubled that our scouting methodology even put him on the table as an option to buy.


Did wormy/FAK hack your account? 

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Barca reportedly agreeing a pre contract with Jonathan David as their summer replacement for Lewa.

 

Madrid have Mbappe.

 

Bidding clubs are either English or its PSG. Or a mega money Saudi bid.

 

Where Alex's head is at is the important thing. He's still young, still developing and under Eddie he's flourished into the best striker in Europe. 

 

If we make top 5 and/or win a cup, my feeling is he stays at least another season. 

 

Add to that we can progress the squad (finally) in the summer. We should have unveiled our stadium plans by then too. We're the club on the up - whatever anyone else (in the media or other clubs fanbases) wants to report/believe.

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49 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

They don't seem to understand £115 million was paid for Caicedo, which is the current Premier League record.

 

And so that is the starting point for any discussion. If Caicedo cost that much, what on Earth do they think the best all around striker in the league will cost?!

 

He absolutely should cost AT LEAST £150 million, if we're talking about a move this summer.

 

 


 

 

Pogba, Antony, Sancho, Enzo, Lukau, Maguire, all north of 85, million doubt Nunez is far off that either.

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Yeah if we don't win anything, finish outside the top 5. It's quite possible he won't sign a new deal (we can't really break our wage structure and pay £300k etc that other teams can offer) and then we would be looking at a potential sale the following summer. 

 

But that's worst case scenario and let's hope we have a strong end to the season and can continue to build around him.

 

 

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3 hours ago, KaKa said:

 

They don't seem to understand £115 million was paid for Caicedo, which is the current Premier League record.

 

And so that is the starting point for any discussion. If Caicedo cost that much, what on Earth do they think the best all around striker in the league will cost?!

 

He absolutely should cost AT LEAST £150 million, if we're talking about a move this summer.

 

Genuinely think nine figure sums are a thing of the past in the PSR age. Plus the Chelsea factor undermines Enzo/Caicedo being any sort of benchmark. 

 

There's no market for an Isak that is settled at a Europe-competing NUFC. We can comfortably say "obscene price or fuck off" in that scenario. And no one can pay that.

 

Ergo, if he leaves, it's because he wants to, and we've been forced to accept a more 'competitive' price. (i.e something between what Nunez and Lukaku cost).

 

It all hinges on the player in this case imo. I don't see why he'd want to leave, incidentally. He's got it good here. 

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With 3 1/2 on his contract regardless what we do as a team this season he’ll be here until summer 2026.

 

Wouldn’t be surprised if no contact is agreed until summer signings land and show clubs intention. Then 2025/26 becomes the biggest season to show everyone else the club’s ambition as it seems to be forgotten about or marginalised that we want to become No.1.

 

Meanwhile basic guesswork would suggest no one in Italy or Germany could afford him. Only PSG in France could afford him. I doubt Barcelona could afford him unless they cheat the system and Real Madrid have just signed Mbappe and their recent policy suggests they try to get players to run their contracts down to join them. So that leaves us with England which would drive the price even higher. Without too much pain only Man City could afford him and have re-signed Haaland for 9yrs so that move would make no for all 3 parties. Chelsea could maybe but at a push with some juggling but their project doesn’t seem to be that great with a vastly differing approach to ours. So that leaves Liverpool who could give him the platform and stabilised project but they’ve not been able to cash in on Salah as they might’ve privately hoped and not sure the figures required would fit with them as comfortable as some would assume. Then Arsenal who he’s most linked with I feel come 2026 seem like their project cycle is coming to a bit of an end with Arteta. I may be wrong. 
 

Ultimately we just need to ignore the noise as fans and look to the club to either re-sign him with an almost unreachable buyout clause or we let him run with his current contract to allow him to see the club’s intentions and show we are just as ambitious in our own way and budget and then show it on the pitch 25/26.

 

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, LFEE said:

With 3 1/2 on his contract regardless what we do as a team this season he’ll be here until summer 2026.

 

Wouldn’t be surprised if no contact is agreed until summer signings land and show clubs intention. Then 2025/26 becomes the biggest season to show everyone else the club’s ambition as it seems to be forgotten about or marginalised that we want to become No.1.

 

Meanwhile basic guesswork would suggest no one in Italy or Germany could afford him. Only PSG in France could afford him. I doubt Barcelona could afford him unless they cheat the system and Real Madrid have just signed Mbappe and their recent policy suggests they try to get players to run their contracts down to join them. So that leaves us with England which would drive the price even higher. Without too much pain only Man City could afford him and have re-signed Haaland for 9yrs so that move would make no for all 3 parties. Chelsea could maybe but at a push with some juggling but their project doesn’t seem to be that great with a vastly differing approach to ours. So that leaves Liverpool who could give him the platform and stabilised project but they’ve not been able to cash in on Salah as they might’ve privately hoped and not sure the figures required would fit with them as comfortable as some would assume. Then Arsenal who he’s most linked with I feel come 2026 seem like their project cycle is coming to a bit of an end with Arteta. I may be wrong. 
 

Ultimately we just need to ignore the noise as fans and look to the club to either re-sign him with an almost unreachable buyout clause or we let him run with his current contract to allow him to see the club’s intentions and show we are just as ambitious in our own way and budget and then show it on the pitch 25/26.

 

 

 

 

Bayern could afford him I’d guess, especially if they get a decent amount back for Kane.

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1 hour ago, Rafalove said:

Pogba, Antony, Sancho, Enzo, Lukau, Maguire, all north of 85, million doubt Nunez is far off that either.

 

Definitely. Players like Caicedo and Enzo aren't even match winners.

Isak has 48 in 74 in the PL, albeit in just 62 games of minutes. Without wanting to jinx it, he looks likely to hit 50 as seventh fastest in PL history, faster than Henry and Aguero.

Given that we don't need to sell, any starting bid should be for a league-proven Henry or Aguero. That's just for us to pick up the phone.

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1 hour ago, Yorkie said:

 

Genuinely think nine figure sums are a thing of the past in the PSR age. Plus the Chelsea factor undermines Enzo/Caicedo being any sort of benchmark. 

 

There's no market for an Isak that is settled at a Europe-competing NUFC. We can comfortably say "obscene price or fuck off" in that scenario. And no one can pay that.

 

Ergo, if he leaves, it's because he wants to, and we've been forced to accept a more 'competitive' price. (i.e something between what Nunez and Lukaku cost).

 

It all hinges on the player in this case imo. I don't see why he'd want to leave, incidentally. He's got it good here. 


I know what you mean but it feels mad that he would cost anywhere near what those two cost, given he’s twice as good as either of them and proven in the PL. 

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2 hours ago, Yorkie said:

 

Genuinely think nine figure sums are a thing of the past in the PSR age. Plus the Chelsea factor undermines Enzo/Caicedo being any sort of benchmark. 

 

There's no market for an Isak that is settled at a Europe-competing NUFC. We can comfortably say "obscene price or fuck off" in that scenario. And no one can pay that.

 

Ergo, if he leaves, it's because he wants to, and we've been forced to accept a more 'competitive' price. (i.e something between what Nunez and Lukaku cost).

 

It all hinges on the player in this case imo. I don't see why he'd want to leave, incidentally. He's got it good here. 

 

If nine figure sums are a thing of the past then he's going nowhere unless he's in the last year of his contract, should it come to that.

 

 

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