In retrospect it was a pretty bold move and we had to understand that it would make the issue more thorny.
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They can be pissed all they like but Liverpool had all their targets sorted well before they even heard about them and notice how they contact our targets before we move for them. They never got pissed when all the other top teams gazumped them several times. Ekitike was already parked for a while and the player had already made up his mind.
They’d have spent weeks low balling only for someone else to come in.
Don’t let them kid anyone but some knob like Hope.
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This all reminds me of the fiasco when Suarez left and we missed out on target after target until we ended up with Lamert and Balotelli.
Everyone just assumed that we’d sign Sancho, but it turned out Wenger had been in his ear for 18 months. We probably learned a lesson about what it takes to recruit at that level.
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You typo’d Sanchez into Sancho. Thankfully we were never in for Sancho.
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Both Lambert and Lallana were signed early in the window as well. Technically before the Suarez deal was closed. Our issue that summer was seemingly less that we kept missing a succession of targets, but more that we kept spending money in other areas and seemingly didnt turn to signing a replacement until relatively late. Even if we think there was a big problem in being naive in putting too much hope in Alexis for the level of groundwork we’d done and then getting caught cold when he chose Arsenal, there was still a good 7 weeks from that deal being finalized and the end of the window.
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Sancho ?
But assuming you meant Sanchez , He would have been perfect for us.
I still think we should table a 105 million pound offer tomorrow morning just to troll them.
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Since Klopp, the fanbase has come on in leaps and bounds, re the songs and the adulation… it certainly has helped when it comes down to recruiting new players…
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111m 
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Take the Arsenal approach and add an extra pound - £110,000,001
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It actually is quite respectful.
We were offered to make a bid, we didn’t they rejected it out of hand and then moaned about it for 2 months.
As much as you want to create out of it, I feel there may have been some agreed pause to our work due to Jota so when they moved on Hugo it pissed us off slightly.
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The reporting at the time suggested we were giving them a choice…
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I just feel since he’s thrown his toys out the pram his value has declined- so we can offer 5 mil less every couple days until they panic and take it.
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That’s a crazy heel move
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Wait a minute.
IF JD MDonagh is a heel, and backs Isak joining us, does that mean
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Isak seems to be staying at NUFC for now due to Al-sandcastle’s piss poor recruitment strategy.
Our only hope is Chelsea sells Jackson to NUFC and they pony up for Wissa. Only then, we get the encouragement from NUFC which will make our transfer team go for a mad rush on deadline day to close it at a reasonable price.
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Our recent history has shown that we don’t panic buy any longer, especially for big money signings. We identify our target and are willing to wait.
I think this will happen in January. Until then it’s fingers crossed for no injuries to our forwards!
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Panic buying vs waiting for Isak are not the only two options though. We have shown we will wait, or refuse to make any move, if we determine the next best option doesn’t move the needle for us. If we think they do then we have a long history of moving on from a target we couldn’t get to the next on the list that we could.
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