Maybe we should sing about it. They’d report it then.
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There aren’t really many clubs that can afford Isak and if they don’t need him and he doesn’t want Saudi, then there is a very limited market.
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Yeah, but if the price goes down to 100m it might change. Only a couple of clubs who can afford that, but they’d be able to get a decent replacement for that kind of money.
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Generally speaking verbal agreements can absolutely be legally binding. They are just a lot trickier to prove and therefore enforce.
I’ll let @Kopstar address that point.
Not for football contracts. They’re akin to property purchases in that regard. Any variations etc must be in writing.
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Besides Diaz, the other two Nunez and Jota (due to injury) did not play too many minutes last season except in the cups.
To replace them with Ekitike and Wirtz seems like an upgrade so far (we have not weakened the midfield so Wirtz could play an attacking position easily if required with the midfield of last season).
Rio is being eased in. Chiesa might be used… I don’t see a problem except that we might be giving chances to people who didn’t get it last year.
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Whilst we’ve improved the XI (I doubt they’d be anyone silly enough to disagree), the squad is still 2 players, if not 3, light. Not including Woodman because he isn’t going to make the squad in any game, we have a 21 man senior squad (& that’s including Kostas who we’re looking to move on).
Another CB and either a LW/CF are musts and the fact we’re targeting 2 of the very best in the Prem and willing to spend the best part of £150m to bring them in, would reinforce that argument.
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Yes Alvarez
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Was he the MC player that went (back?) to Spain? If so, I was never convinced of him but I never saw the required number of games…
In the end, the point is that there is one (and maybe two) that could hit those numbers in the next couple of years. We are after one of them.
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You go and watch his last games for. Atletico he was devastating and cannot stop scoring and we have macallister to help us get him.
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I doubt AM would be keen to sell at this stage.
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I’d prefer Alvarez over Isak anyway. He was my dream striker for the summer, but it won’t happen now. Far too late in the window, and Atletico made their stance very clear at the start of the window that he’s not for sale, no matter what.
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Filling both those spots with potentially starting 11 players would be fantastic, more than we could have imagined. If we don’t I’m fine with things as they are bar injuries and Salah going to AFCON during the winter.
So 2 needed to complete squad 
Maybe not atletico but he would love to come back to the premier league shitty left him on the bench and preferred Haaland.
That isn’t quite true. It doesn’t get Isak anywhere, but it does damage Newcastle.
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The only downside tonAlcarez is that he left Man City because he wanted to go back to Spain because he was homesick/fed up on the rain.
I would have Alvarez over Isak as well if only for his injury proneness..
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I’m surprised Chelsea haven’t put a bid in. Maybe, like us, they’re biding their time.
I know that Isak has supposedly said that he only wants us, but I haven’t seen a quote to that effect. I’m pretty sure that if Chelsea offered in excess of 120 million and we didn’t respond, then he would be off to Stamford Bridge.
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Back to Spain would be a bit inaccurate when he is Argentinian. He went from River Plate to Man City, so Atletico are his first Spanish club but the main point that he might not want to leave Spain could be true, which is a pity as he would be a good alternative to Isak.
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