Alexander Isak (CF) Newcastle

  1. We were/are after one and not both
  2. Another team wants both
  3. We try and force a favourable outcome by making it difficult for any potential transactions to go smoothly - by using our financial advantage

We may get neither but the skirmish will weaken the other protagonist (barring selling the ladies team or getting a 1 B £ sponsership deal…)

People getting all pissy because a team that usually doesn’t spend and yet continually plays in Europe and is the only other team have won the league bar financial dopers in the last 9 years are spending some money for once.

And we don’t need to sell our womens team to afford it.

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Not a chance 10000% certain

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Nothing like it.

Fare enough.

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Yeah but remember when Klopp said something about money 8 or 9 years ago?

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What I really enjoy is the reaction from Shearer about our targeting Isak he must be incandescent he probably will be apoplectic if we manage to wrestle Isak out of them.

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There’s a part of me that thinks we know Isak is unattainable this window and that we were just firing a shot across the bow of Newcastle for interfering with our pursuit for Ekitike.

Seems odd to publicly say “we’d be interested in your lad at some way below the price you’ve been spouting for months” just a day after they made a move for Ekitike and a day before we’ve apparently done the same.

It’s definitely rocked the Toon boat a bit so if that was the aim then job done.

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Haha @Mascot

https://x.com/MagpieMediaX/status/1945522624173420993

:astonished_face::joy:
Wtf

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Watch put for the bonesaws! :scream:

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What’s he gonna do? Find Richard Hughes and put him in a suitcase.

Fuck off.

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The only way I see it happening is if we insist on United taking him on loan for the next 5 years, paying all his wages and paying a loan fee that covers all the transfer fee.

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I think the rumour was Rashford to Barcelona.

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His agent just happened to go to Barcelona for a short family break.

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The Nou Camp is a great tourist spot as well. Even my then girlfriend who had zero interest in football thought it was great. Im sure that was the only reason he was there.

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He also loves oil and has apparently refused to pump anymore.

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Some interesting info here on the Newcastle side, which seems to lean towards us getting Isak:

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Oh, Al-Rumayyan has made clear he’s a fan of Isak? Shit, that changes everything. Not respecting dibs is worse than tapping up. Unacceptable behavior from us.

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God to love this… Liverpool declare a price for a striker in the open. Probably something all teams do at least once or twice in a window and it’s suddenly this great crime.

A football ecosystem propped up by the very worst human beings and money from what ultimately will kill it (unless the plan is for roofs all around).

You’ve got City and their 119 charges, you’ve got Chelsea who wiped their debt from an Oligarch who robbed his countries wealth to pay for it and are now buying 17 playing squads.

All the way down to that knob at Forest and Everton bleating hard done by because they broke the rules and got a points deduction that if actually applied when they broke them would have relegated them.

Not to mention the press in Germany and Spain who are simply grotesque at the way they carried on when we were mourning Jota.

Fuck the lot of them

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