Well he keeps him out of our game if that’s all that comes from it 
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LOL. I read the entire post, not just your cherry picked incomplete quote.
Your full quote is “we await the opportunity to negotiate while they wait on someone willing to pay full whack.”
That’s after you said:
“They did want to engage, at 150mp.Had we offered what they say he is worth then he’d be a Liverpool player already.”
So, I stand by my response. You think we should have just paid the full amount. I think we offered 110 as a starting point for a negotiation.
I think if Isak comes he will end up costing around 130m. Midway between our opening offer of 110m and the rather unrealistic 150m number. Just an opinion. I believe that as Isak continues his holdout, New Castle will eventually fold to the pressure as he refuses to sign any extension or play for them.
Hopefully Isak transfer gets wrapped up in the next two weeks and doesn’t drag as long as the Florian Wirtz transfer. Although to be fair we got our guy in the end so that’s a good precedent.
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the only reason wirtz dragged on a bit was because he was on holiday.
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We also dont know if this was true. It was just one of the many stories newcastle mouth pieces put out after our initial bid but the speed and abruptness at which we walked away and said we would wait until Newcastle invited us back suggests not.
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We best bid then
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Am I misinterpreting Ornstein in that Isak will refuse to play for Newcastle even if he doesn’t move in this window?
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That’s what it sounds like.
Club promised him a new contract, reneged on the promise. Said they’d want around 120 for him, and then when we bid near that they upped their asking price to 150. Think he’s fed up with how their management are behaving. At this stage, while he prefers to come here, I thinks it’s reaching the point where it just has to be not Newcastle for Isak to be happy.
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Said it before. The club are wasting valuable time pursuing this. Season starts this weekend and we are short one CF and one CB. Move on LFC!!!
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That seems to suggest what he means essentially Isak will go on strike.
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Or at least put a 2nd bid in to know where we stand.
As ever we are always 2 or 3 players short. 2 fit CBs is a joke for a club our size.
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Had we offered what they wanted then he would be a Liverpool player now.If that’s the price they want then it stands to reason if you offer what they want then you get him if he wants to join your club.
That doesn’t mean I think we should have paid 150mp,it just means had we paid it he’d be in our team.
I’d prefer not to sign him, definitely not at 150mp. Once we signed Ekitike I felt he could be our CF and would rather we go for a wide player to replace Diaz. If we were to spend a record fee on a forward I’d prefer Alvarez, who we probably could persuade Simeone to sell for 150mp.
They want 150,we offered 110,now we wait and see if a negotiation takes place.
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The club doesnt need to put in a second bid to know where it stands.
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That assumes Newcastle are being honest about the £150m claim rather than just using it as a media control exercise later.
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As in they paid what we wanted? Or they didn’t pay what we value him at therefore we don’t sell?
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As in implying they would entertain a bid from us at all.
Whatever our opening bid they can always use a higher figure in the media to justifly not selling, and its unlikely we submitted that bid without expecting to be asked to pay more than that sum, so something else has probably been said to Hughes and co to lead them to specifically say we will wait for Newcastle to invite us to bid again before we do so.
Also.
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Hes obsessed with bidding like its Football manager.
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You don’t think we should go for him?
