While I hate the amount of money that is involved in such transfers, I believe that walking away would be dangerous for multiple reasons. Club would come out of this looking like amateurs, as well as the party guilty of completely unsettling a player, breaking promises given to him and then hanging him out to dry. Not to mention that not buying a striker would like Liverpool desperately short in the attacking areas for reasons already discussed…
I think this gets done as soon as Newcastle find their two new strikers and their mouthpieces fulfil their club’s agenda of making it look like Isak and Liverpool are the villains in this story.
I’ve read a couple of articles that have stated it is his agent, that is encouraging Isak to act like a complete twat in this unravelling situation. In so much as kick up a storm and lets get what we want… For all we know, the agent has elaborated and expanded what is fact and what is not, to Isak, regarding his dealing with us, and the outcome, or promises made by us.
Very unusual for a player to act like this, UNLESS, he believes another club has promised to bail him out… Again, whether that is just his agent distorting reality… remains to be seen.
If there is even an ounce of truth in this, then LFC would be wise to keep this agent at arms length whenever possible. We should also hope that Isak changes this agent, long before he gets a chance to advise Isak to undertake the same tactics to us, should RM or other come calling 2/3yrs down the line.
They are close to signing Jacob Ramsey from Villa, who plays almost exclusively on the left, where they already have Gordon and Barnes. That suggests they are looking to move Gordon inside, and use him and Wissa as their two main options.
Would actually be a pretty sensible thing to do. Gordon is a really good finisher, and has played through the middle before.
Agreed, I didn’t mean to imply that it was. But maybe it loosens the purse strings sufficiently that we pay the £5m that’s apparently the difference between the two clubs just to get it done ASAP.
I genuinely don’t remember seeing him play there but I read that he played centrally during this pre-season. That said, I thought it was enforced because of Wilson’s departure and Isak’s situation.
I think Ramsey and Elanga are quality additions to their side (as is Thiaw - and I’m sure Wissa will also be a good addition, he’s a very underrated player and I won’t forget his equaliser that could be said ultimately cost us the title in 2021/22) but this whole Isak saga has looked like they were deliberately shooting themselves in the foot just to prove some point born out of their inferiority complex.
I’m not sure Liverpool look at signings in that way. I don’t think they have an overall kitty in that way.
If we’re reluctant to go £5m more for Guehi, it’s because we’ve put a valuation on him and we just don’t want to exceed it.
It also might be dependent on his confident we are about Konate getting a new deal, which makes a difference to what Guehi’s status in the squad is, and therefore where that puts the needle on what we pay for him.
Liverpool fans burned Gerrard shirts. Utd fans turned on Rooney. If he stays, all it will take is a couple of goals and people will forgive and forget.
‘One Greedy Bastard’ must be aimed at the club itself then eh…
I mean it was them that set the asking price at £150m…
If they had accepted our offer it would be resolved by now.
I find it amusing that whenever I’ve talked to a Geordie fan about this they just won’t accept that the situation with Isak is almost identical to the Wissa one, and when you ask them why their answer is ‘fuck off you bin dipping cunt’
This may be due to the type of people you associate with. The Geordies I know are erudite and cosmopolitan, eager to empathise and never quick to judge.
