Well if we don’t get Isak we may might get Isaque
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PSR has buffet this slightly it’s like some pundits will bang on about cartels.
It’s allowed for competitive spending, Chelsea got lucky really as they went from sizeable debt to a clean slate.
No doubt it’s kept the clubs going down from really overspending and without it you’d have more issues
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We could do with another Brazilian attacking midfielder because give it another couple years and that Coutinho money will finally have all been spent and we’ll need to refill the coffees again.
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I don’t think contracts are about holding a player until the expiration, and clubs certainly don’t see it that way.
How often do we see a club force a player out, to sign with anyone who will take him at a decent fee. Many club will try every trick in the box to make a player take the hint and just fuck off.
So I understand that there is no loyalty from players towards clubs, because there is certainly none from clubs to players.
A contract is just a means of ensuring that one party is compensated if the other wants to call it a day.
You see a lot of Newcastle fand shouting he signed a six year contract. Well, yeah but did you really think the plan was for him to see it out? Aww bless.
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craig hope on ssn - saying that Isak will be able to go to LFC if they a) come back with a better offer (£130m) and b) Newcastle sign 2 forwards and theyve not been able to sign one in 2.5 months.
He also said LFC signing Ekitike has effectively killed this deal as if newcastle had signed him Isak would be a LFC player already as Ekititke is so highly rated
He expects isak to stay now and tomorrows game is irrelevant to the deal. Newcastle wont be able sign 2 top replacements in 8 days.
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Craig Hope has been aggressively towing the Newcastle line, so I wouldn’t take anything he says as objective truth but especially those Ekitike claims. I’d bet Newcastle would still have done everything they can to refuse to sell Isak if they’d managed to get Ekitike.
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I think LFC have made a massive mistake in letting 2 forwards go. We also lost jota - we havent replaced 2 of them.
Star players dont tend to move this late in the window.
We need to get someone else in, go back in Jan for Isak and we can get him for £30m cheaper.
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By Christmas Newcastle may be in a relegation dogfight and won’t be selling anyone. It’s not like they are blessed with strikers without Isak.
That’s down to them not offering enough cash, £130m would help with that so buying two decent forwards isn’t the sort of problem they can’t solve in the remaining time.
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I have a feeling that this season will be the last for Howe… Might just be me, but I’ve never thought he had the ‘X’ factor to become a successful winning manager… Everything, progress included, seems to move in slow motion around him.
At one time he could be regarded as an up and coming manager with real potential… but it has never materialised though.
For all we know, he could be part of the reason Isac wants away.
If they do get a huge chunk of money in transfer kitty, will be interesting to see if the board trust Howe with the best way to spend it… or wait until new manager arrives next summer.!
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The parallels with Van Dijk are spooky. As with that transfer it could easily go close to the wire this transfer window only to then actually go through in January.
Guehi ought to arrive though and we’ll then see where we are in 3 months’ time.
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I think they are totally different. We haven’t had Werner getting pissed and running his mouth in front of all the other P/L chairmen there-by pissing off Guehis’ club forcing them to lodge a complaint about illegally tapping up their player and making Henry issue a public appology.
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Do you mean Isak’s club?
I mean, weren’t Newcastle threatening legal action earlier in the summer? 
But yes, apart from Werner running his mouth and causing us to back off the situations are remarkably similar.
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Were they, I must of missed that. I just remember when we contacted them with the 110M offer and they shut it down with a hard no, but don’t remember any talk about legal action
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Wasn’t that just someone on social media claiming how personally hurt they were.
I assume less hurt than those journalists or gay people they execute.
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Also, you started talking about Virgil and Guehi, so I blame you for confussing me
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Might as well merge the threads at this point.
Craig “Cope” never explains what would happen if Liverpool met their fee? Also it somewhat feels they are reliant on that money to get any deal done.
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The intent was for Newcastle to play Ekitike alongside Isak. They weren’t in it for him to be a replacement to isak.
I don’t believe that for a second. There’s no chance they’re doing a net spend of £175m plus this summer in their PSR position.
I think they’ve been after that big money number 9 all summer because they knew Isak wanted to leave. They’ve kept missing targets and he’s now pissed because they won’t let him go until they have their new shiny toy. He’s getting worried it now might not happen because of their incompetence.
I also reckon there’s some annoyance from Newcastle that we took one of their targets which is why they’re super pissed at us
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Agreed rab. If they were really keen to see what it would be like to be on the pitch with Hugo and Alex playing together, then they can find out at Anfield in February.
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