Because they’re off-topic.
Back to Isak please.
Each to their own I guess but I thought last summer failed to do some key business but I understand why they held off.
Not sure the Isak pursuit is nonsense. Huge deal like that was never going to be simple but that shouldn’t stop us trying to get the best striker possible.
To be honest what more could he do…
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Flatly refuse to come back.
The FSG out brigade will have to find something else to wet their pants about now we’ve spent a kings ransom.
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It’s pretty much what he is saying…
I’m not sure I want him though with this attitude if I’m honest.
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“Craig Cope”
I’m not concerned about Isak’s attitude yet. For me it comes down to his personal ambition, he could be a Newcastle legend if he stayed and didn’t push for leaving but Newcastle are a project that as they are showing this summer, isn’t going to progress fast.
So if he wanted to play for a team that’ll challenge for titles regularly, a move was needed and moves to bigger clubs then Newcastle don’t actually come around that often, as we can see by only us being in for him this summer. So with Newcastles owners it was always going to need him to push for the move to have any chance of it happening.
Clipped Andy Hunter in the Guardian:
“Given how swiftly Newcastle rejected their offer, Liverpool consider it futile to return with a second bid before the transfer window closes on 1 September. Their offer of £110m for the want-away player remains on the table.”
It’s there when they’ve had enough or they get someone to replace him.
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Liverpool have unsettled Isak?
Bullshit. Reports that he informed Newcastle that this would be his final season with them after the renaged on a contract promise, suggest that the only club who unsettled the lad were Newcastle themselves.
He wanted out irrespective of Liverpool sniffing about. We just happen to be the only game in town.
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That will be quite the revolution lol…
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I do wonder if Newcastle suggested being open to a lower offer and then just refused this and we went fuck off.
Does feel like it.
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No chance that Newcastle communicated that they were open to a lower offer.
If it is true that we bid 110, that sounds more like we took into account that Isak has caused a mess and Liverpool has already secured Ekitike. The pressure isn’t on us. The pressure is squarely on the Geordies and the PIF.
I won’t believe this is over until Isak returns to training and the window closes.
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It’s worth reiterating that Newcastle are still in Asia on tour. We can question the legitimacy of the injury excuse for him not travelling, but concern about his conduct and being AWOL are really on hold until Newcastle get back and we see if Isak shows up or stays in Spain. We still have 3 or 4 days before that (their last game is on Sunday)
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Theres no way isak has done all this for us to low ball an offer then walk away.
Lfc were never going in with £130m straight away.
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Completely unfounded speculation, but you wonder if their churn at the executive level has meant we’ve got bad information. Maybe we got a sign of encouragement from someone who thought they were close to the decision maker only for different people to step in and take a different position on the situation.
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This is what I meant when I said earlier that we have to see this through.
If we dip our toe in the water with one bid, and then don’t fancy fighting, we have messed the player about. The player has extended himself to get the move to us, making his situation very awkward at Newcastle.
I believe we will sign him this summer. Depending on how they do with recruitment, it might mean we sell a player or two to them. Let’s imagine we give them enough to buy Watkins from Villa, and also sanction deals to sell Nunez and Elliott, with Isak coming this way.
There’s a few more permutations and this isn’t dead, not by a long way.
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It’s possible, but not at a lower fee than what we originally proposed. That would be asinine.