What’s with their faces?
Yeah, I was wondering only the other day if they’d ever crossed paths during his loan spell in the Eredivisie. Interesting
Arne Slot looks like he is regretting last nights curry.
When everything is said and done every team will have a niggling itch about this lad. Do we really want a player who is disrespectful of his current club to the point he is training at another club.
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What if he was ours and RM come calling. Same deal but we would expect him to be loyal and he won’t.
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I have big reservations on this lad. Maybe that’s actually the reason he is at Newcastle.
I support tapping up, anyway. This anti tapping up notion is the same people who don’t want you to discuss your salary with your co-workers.
Thought it would be walking around in Newcastle with a Liverpool Isak shirt … 
I think we have to hang in there with Isak, until we sign him or until it becomes impossible and the door definitively closes.
We have let it be known we want him. He is doing all the dark arts to tip the scale so that his employers let him move, albeit for a likely record fee.
If we bail out on him, there’s a sense in which we leave him stranded and I don’t like that. We need to see this through to conclusion.
On a related note I don’t like how it is unfolding at this stage, but… I am putting it down to the tawdry nature of the game more than anything else.
Isak and his agent pulling this kind of stuff is making it hard for everyone to come away unscathed. It makes LFC’s position very difficult as well. We are kinda stuck with trying to get over the line with Isak where the club has other issues to solve at CB…
Newcastle are the ones apparently stuffing the player around, don’t see that we are, on the little that is known.At the end of there day we need to look to ourselves first which clearly means a quality CB and possibly another CB.
I feel for Isak and want him here,but if Newcastle refuses to play, seems little we can do!
We are getting to the point where we are nearly being forced to take the player at whatever price they feel fit.
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If it doesn’t happen future players may look dimly on this situation.
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I think we are backing ourselves into a no win corner. Can’t we just say he failed a medical then buy a CB.
No we are not. We don’t have to sign Isak. They’re the ones stuck with a disgruntled player. We signed Ekitike and there are other forward options in addition to a CB.
Coutinho had “back pains” during his slightly extended stay with Brazil near the end of the summer of 2017, as he was already pushing for Barcelona…
I think Hughes and company have played this perfectly. They let it leak that we approached Newcastle with a proposal that would break the British transfer record. We’ve put the ball in Newcastle’s court to actually entertain an offer and negotiate. In doing so, we’ve signaled to Isak our interest, signaled to Newcastle our willingness to pay a competitive fee, and let them decide how they want to work it out.
I don’t think an ounce of blame lands on us if we don’t see this through. It’s all on Newcastle now. If they don’t want to sell, they don’t have to.
Promises regarding an improved contract which weren’t honoured.
Team hasn’t strengthened this season. No major transfers.
Isak wants to leave due to those reasons
High time Newcastle realise they’ve fucked up. Keeping an unrealistic transfer fee risks their entire transfer window going bad. The sooner they get a reasonable transfer fee(which will still be a british transfer record), The better they can move on to their targets.
Newcastle can try and hold on to Isak for this transfer window and the ensuing season but if the head has been turned, then there’s no point keeping a player.
I also don’t feel too much sympathy for Isak, either. I’d love to sign him. I think he’d be a wonderful player here. But he signed a contract and I don’t think it’s unreasonable for Newcastle to expect him to honor it.
But I do agree that it may be unwise for them not to sell him under the circumstances.
Reminder: transfer threads are for discussion about transfers.
Just struck me that Atletico Madrid paid 120m odd for an unproven Joao Felix. And no one bats an eyelid over that transfer.
The same Felix they got 40m for from Chelsea in a classic case of money laundering.
Liverpool pay money for relatively more proven players in Wirtz and potentially Isak and people are getting their pants in a twist.
Well, if we are not going to be accused of tapping players up. Encouraging players to seek avenues for transfers, then we are getting awfully close.
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We point the finger at others doing exactly this.
We’ve made our interest clear.
Newcastle know that there’s a bid on table. Every agent talks to teams. You can’t prevent that. Isak knows of our interest. He doesn’t need permission from Newcastle to talk to us.
People world over get enticed to leave their current job for a better opportunity elsewhere. How is that tapping up ?
And Isak is doing right by Newcastle in atleast this. If he leaves , he is ensuring that they get a sizable amount of money for him. That money if spent correctly can ensure that Newcastle finish in the European contention spots and further strengthen.