We’ll survive and thrive. No player is bigger than the club. We just need options and then crap load of supply to create chances. Conversion rate will drastic drop vs having Isak, but someone will step up.

100% This. If he wants out, then so be it, but entirely on our terms.

He’s absolutely class. But is he rated in the top 3 in the world in his position?

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Yep, seems like it! But if Liverpool think they can get him cheaper just cos Isak’s had little whispers with VVD then they’ve got to have a rethink. 150m or…

Not everyone is a 300k player. Simple as. Isak is considered one of the top 3 players in his position. Our other players are not in that bracket (as much as I love them!), so there has to be an acceptance that it’s not all about giving every player the same/similar wages.

Look, Isak wants 300k…that’s negotiable I’m sure, so let’s say £265k secures him + a buy-out clause inserted for a promised sale at £150m. (£13.8m a year). EVEN at £300k p/w, that would be £15.6m a year. Every single club qualifying for the CL 25/26 is assured MIN £15.7m - can afford it #NUFC

The fee would have been more like £40m, but even at that price, for his age, England international, confident, desire to play for us…should have wrapped that up immediately instead of haggling over a few mill in transfer fee

Half an hour into this series of mini debates. Fascinatingly good viewing. Excellently handled by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social as always.

Yes, no, yes. Would be happy with Sesko and Wissa being brought in with Isak out, with change to spare. Would use that for a keeper (Trafford), CB, and persistent unsettling of any Liverpool players until the window shuts. Eg Elliot

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I was going to lol @ you lot, but then noticed we (NUFC) are charging the same as well 🥴

Also despise the idea of fuelling Chelsea’s “let’s-hoover-up-every-fker-who-has-kicked-ball-and-sell-for-profit” approach. No thank you.

Can we stop faffing about & just go out and sign Sesko? Has a release clause which is reasonable and affordable. Powerful striker, offers something different to Isak, experienced enough but still young. Feels like he’d fit into the work-ethics Howe demands as well as the rigours of the Prem. #NUFC

The right characters is what has got us to where we are. No need for anyone who has rejected us once, let alone 3 times! Same goes for the others.

Nicely organised! (Unlike most of what FIFA do)

Leaving it late is not good though. Late bid for Elanga last summer left us without until an earlier move now. Getting the team to gel during pre-season is key. Would much rather all need-positions were filled and we shut up shop and said no more deals, turning focus towards training.

100%. Ashley’s running of our club will be one of his stupidest business decisions ever. No one was even asking for his own money to be put into the club…just actually run it like you care! Complete and utter negligence, not to mention all the free/cheap advertising he got out of the club.

Hmm maybe best to swerve that in that case lol. Just mental to have the richest owners in football yet being unable to pay our players close to what other clubs are willing to pay.

That’s what I meant. Set salary from the club, bonuses, appearance fees etc - standard stuff. Then they can have additional guarantees from elsewhere like I think Neymar had in promoting Saudi (some ludicrous 400k per post 😵‍💫)

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🤣 well in that case, case closed and no need for Liverpool to keep chasing the striker with a shallower growth trajectory

Oh really? They’re not allowed to earn money from personal promotions/ventures?

Getting a bit sick of PSR and the limitations. Why don’t we just give our top players a respectable salary…eg 200k, and then just pay them in kind in other ways like 100k per Insta post promoting one of the PIF/Saudi companies? Wouldn’t be tied to club accounts & would comply with PSR. #NUFC

If he goes, he goes on our terms, simple as that. And there’s no conversation until the asking price gets closer to 200m than 100m. Otherwise, pointless anyone worrying about anything.

It’s friendly #1… Haaland didn’t feature in the first 1-2 friendlies for Man City 2023-24 pre-season. If we can’t throw Osula in for these kind of games what’s the point in having friendlies? They’re for experimentation and fitness. #NUFC

- Trafford in would be nice, but not end of the world without.
- DCL if on a relatively cheap contract would be a reasonable replacement for Wilson.
- Just double Isak’s salary, he deserves it.
- Go for Sesko instead, he’s better than Ekitike anyway.
- Get Amanda Staveley in as CEO.

#NUFC

Trafford going to City would mean getting as much game time as Vlachodimos.

Achieved what he set out to do, and did so really well and with genuine contribution. He’ll do well at Leeds I’m sure. Just gotta hope they don’t go straight back down, as he is a Prem-level player

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Why does every article proclaim to know how Isak is feeling? These clowns literally know as much as my next door neighbour (who is not Fabrizio Romano). Sports “Journalism” has no merit…you can literally make up whatever the hell you want and hit publish. #NUFC

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Trafford, Hall, Botman, Scalvini, Livramento, Bruno, Tonali, Gordon, Isak, Sesko, Elanga…

🤣 our players are stepping up since Paul Mitchell left the building