I think we’ve taken a leaf from Chelsea’s book and signed players on 6 year contracts now.
What they do have is the ability to shift their academy players and out of favour players at very high prices. Their academy is really really strong.
Chelsea are doing 8 year contracts, a player leaves after a year of signing at Chelsea on an 8 year contract to go somewhere else on a 7, Chelsea are propping up that no two ways about it.
As I said big clubs will do it, those further down less so.
They’ve shifted 250m so far and yet have 6 remaining.
We’ve shifted about that. They sold the woman’s team and are now doing deals via Strasbourg they aren’t being run well and they aren’t in a as financially rosey position as most assume.
Apparently they are also after Xavi Simons, evidently they aren’t going to bidding 130-150m for Isak any time this window.
Fair enough, I knew there were exceptions but didn’t know if Football was one of them.
My take is that the club have no back-up option. How would that work out anyway? LFC saying to a potential back-up option: ‘Hold on, we try to get Isak, but if it doesn’t work, then we’ll come back to you and buy you at the last hour of the transfer window’. It would be unprofessional to the core, and we know that Edwards and Hughes are as good professionals as it gets.
So, in all likeliness, we’ll go into the new season as we are now if Isak doesn’t somehow manage to wrestle himself off Newcastle’s grip. Maybe Edwards and Hughes will then make another attempt in January.
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Under-the-radar U-23 strikers: alternatives to Isak and Ekitiké.
Someone who’s gone through quite a bit of trouble to plug his app.
Long story short, the closest alternative to Isak that teams get is Ekitike. According to his article atleast.
Assume we will see, not sure I would sell Elliott until any deal for anyone else is done.
With football the exception comes from the terms of the standard PL contract that includes mandatory terms, one of which is that variations must be agreed between the parties in writing.
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In short, NUFC and their fans wants to take that shortcut to the top…
This is presumably all a bit nonsense but … Radio silence? What does that mean btw?
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No one can discuss Newcastle’s 19th attempt at signing a striker just in case someone else comes in and signs him.
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That would make absolutely sense 
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Again we CANNOT give up on Isak. That would be disastrous!
What kinda message would you be sending for the future;
- that you don’t have the balls to see through a tough situation? Or that all the other clubs need to do is dick around and you run?
The likely alternative I suspect is a Diaz-type LW/FWD…
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Why though? We’ve made an offer, Newcastle have rejected it and are demanding more than we are prepared to pay. Giving in would be just paying what they demand.
I don’t see how we are either weak or untrustworthy in that situation.
Makes us look strong and principled imo.
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Rarely forced to do that kind of moves in January. Torres sacrificed part of his health to attend WC10. He came back physically a different player. Their idea was to pair him with Drogba. Terrible idea. Both Torres and Drogba often struggled when paired with another striker. I was sad not to see a combination of Suarez and Torres for at least 6 months (I believe Torres would’ve left anyway the following summer), but objectivelly, the fee we got… it was a quality deal for us (one that we almost totally destroyed by doing that Carroll stupidity).
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I agree. In no way we should be helping Newcastle climb out of the hole they digged themselves into.
We made a good offer for Isak. Not our problem if they didn’t accept it.
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https://x.com/Wolfpackwwfc/status/1958531493359170024
Looks like they are really trying to buy him
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He seems very, err, happy…
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