I don’t disagree. There is logic to a 110M bid, irrespective of structure.
My only objection is to the notion that Newcastle somehow communicated that they’d accept a lower fee than what we even proposed two weeks ago. That does not make any sense.
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I assume if it is a lower offer then it’s probably more upfront now. That would explain it. However they may just be talking shit and that can’t be ruled out as they’ve acted all week as being full of it.
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If it were true then it would presumably be structure related as @mattyhurst (and myself earlier) says. Payments into the future get discounted in real terms because of the risk to the receiver of either not getting them, or if they do, the real value of those payments when made being less than they would be today. As an example, our £120m may have been £60m today and the rest in 5 years’ time if certain targets were made. the £110m offer could have been cash all upfront today. The overall figure is lower in the second example but probably of more value in reality.
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Sources is Craig Hope and we’ve had this post already.
You don’t submit a 110m bid because you don’t want a player…..
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Well said, great player, but nothing he has done has suggested he is in the $150m bracket.
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There are a substantial number of people who think exactly that about our Caicedo pursuit 
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This is exactly why I’d swerve him as long as such an extortionate fee is touted. Even 110m are way too much imo. He’s maybe an 80m player, at best.
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Well, this has all the makings of a saga that could last until the end of the window.
Newcastle doesn’t want to sell.
Isak doesn’t want to stay.
Liverpool wants Isak but doesn’t want to waste time if no deal can be done.
Liverpool have been there before with Van Dijk and Alisson and Coutinho and Suarez etc. Usually, the player ends up getting their move - though it might not happen in the same window.
If Newcastle is resigned to the notion that Isak will leave in 2026 - purportedly the release clause they’ve offered in a new deal - they risk that he will get hurt, have a poor season, and/or that Liverpool will turn their attention elsewhere. Even waiting until the winter might end up costing them tens of millions.
I get that they need to source a replacement. That’s why I was hoping a deal surrounding Nunez would materialize.
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The message coming from him is designed to try and fix the broken bridge with Izak. Its on the lines see mate is was all bluster.
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Translation?
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Don’t see that working - " See, after suggesting they would pay the highest fee in Premier League history for you, they only offered to pay the third highest so they are obviously not serious…meanwhile we can’t give you a pay rise or sign anyone to strengthen the squad…but you’re OK with that aren’t you lad..?" 
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Not real
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Twice!
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Imagine how fucked we would have been if they accepted it.
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Reports are coming in that Sesko is going to Newcastle now. If true, things will get really interesting.
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There goes Man Utd’s greatest strike force in the history of football
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What if Utd pulled out of the Sesko deal because they decided to go for Isak instead?
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