20 Jun 2025 15:48:28
I was almost rediculed when I said Newcastle want 200 million £ for Isak a while back.
News coming out today from Newcastle mouthpieces that he is not for sale and any offer will need to be close to 200 million £.
Don't trust the Twitter tw*ts is all I have to say. Enjoy your weekends everybody ?.
20 Jun 2025 15:54:14
Tbf all I’ve seen anyone say is that Isak is our number 1 choice, Isak would move to us but won’t push for it, and a deal is possible with Newcastle. None of that seems to be a lie, it just seems like the price point is higher than everyone expected. I’ve not seen one person quote a price though. Only ever seen people say a “British transfer record” would be required.
20 Jun 2025 16:08:28
We knew the price was £150m minimum and there was never any chance of Isak coming unless he kicked up a massive fuss. Nothing at all has changed.
20 Jun 2025 16:16:57
All I know is that when the Newcastle negotiator looks into Slots eyes, the price will be 120mil rising to 132 with add-ons.
Newcastle negotiator" Richard, why have you brought Arne to the negotiation table"
Arne "look into my eyes, look into eyes, not around the eyes, straight into my eyes.
20 Jun 2025 16:35:51
Its not going to be made easy, and if not, the slower build works for me personally. Martinez would bring a lot, if not anywhere near as many goals, but he will open the doors for others.
It 'could' be a blessing if we are made to wait, as a new prospect may emerge, one without any injury issues.
20 Jun 2025 16:40:15
Look into my eyes, not around the eyes ?.
{Ed077's Note - Look me in the eyes, tell me what you see Perfect paradise, tearing at the seam
20 Jun 2025 16:54:06
You should be ridiculed, look at my hair because of you.
20 Jun 2025 16:56:53
Lies to fit your agenda ASB, they want a deal around £130m.
20 Jun 2025 17:14:21
At 200m there is NO deal, even at 150m i can't see the club paying that. i don't think i'd want them to.
20 Jun 2025 17:24:41
This is how negotiations work. I’d still be surprised if we get Isak, but they’ll try to extract top dollar and a high opening demand sets the parameters. Crazy window though.
20 Jun 2025 17:23:27
I'm impressed by your Imagine Dragons reference Ed077, even if none of these other Philistines are! ;)
{Ed077's Note - maybe they're just hiding from their Demons from this Radioactive Thunder? ?
20 Jun 2025 17:27:07
The initial rumours from Newcastle's side were that Isak isn't for sale, and that it would take a fee of £150m to get even get them to the table. At that point, it was fairly widely assumed that £150m could be bargained down to £130m realistically, but that Liverpool would never pay that much.
Then rumours start coming out that Liverpool want Isak and would be happy to pay that much.
So the Newcastle rumours change to he's not for sale, Newcastle are under no pressure to sell him, and he's happy to stay.
Then rumours start coming out that Isak wants the Liverpool move, and that he has told Newcastle that.
Now, the Newcastle rumours are upping the price, saying it will take up to £200mil to get him.
Personally, I think that's bull. I think Isak has told Newcastle he wants to go, and a few of our ITKs on here have said they are resigned to losing him, and I can absolutely see that being true. In such a case, it makes complete sense that Newcastle would flood the media with reports of a price up to £200mil, with no intention of ever getting near that figure, purely so that when they eventually agree a fee of around £130mil, they can blame Isak, and say he forced their hand. They can try to save face with fans by saying they wanted £200mil but Liverpool refused to pay it and Isak forced the move at a lower price.
That's what I believe (hope? ) anyways. Be interesting to see how everything actually shakes out.
20 Jun 2025 17:50:58
Heeeey Arne Slot, don't come blaming me for your hair, you always tell me you want your scalp to shine and that you love cocobutter on your shiny shiny head!
Am making up nothing thefields, what a rude and stupid comment. These news come from the Newcastle camp, nothing to do with me, take it up with the Journalist who wrote the article!
20 Jun 2025 19:02:23
We won’t sign Isak, book mark this.
20 Jun 2025 19:10:56
ED33, how do we bookmark Fatwallet's comment?
{Ed033's Note - It's now bookmarked.
20 Jun 2025 19:46:25
WhatDivock, some of these rumours are second hand news. If we have to sell first, the chain will have to go your own way. Don't stop the rumours because he would be a dream signing and I don't want to know if it doesn't happen because we're never going back again.
20 Jun 2025 19:59:30
No club and I mean no club will pay £200 million for Isak.
20 Jun 2025 20:34:30
@Mark, not everybody knew how much Newcastle wanted for Isak, . I still don’t and neither does anybody else on this forum. A nutcase in a dark room with no social life to mention makes up a number and posts it and within a minute it becomes ‘the truth’.
Not one single person on this forum had any idea that we were going to even consider asking about Wirtz before we actually made a move to bring him in.
We don’t know what’s going on or what’s going to happen so when stuff appears on line we build strange constructs as to why a player will or won’t sign based upon here say and made up ‘facts’ (£200m being today’s ‘fact’) .
It really is a lot more fun to just wait and see what’s actuallyy going to happen.
Btw, anybody still not convinced by Hughes’s efforts?
20 Jun 2025 19:57:57
Es 77., wouldn’t have you down as an imagine dragons fan…would have pitched your more as a Jam fan…that’s entertainment…. Isak no chance at all, Liverpool signing two plus 100m players in one window. What are a sovereign state…I reckon our very top end for a new striker is 60-70m. At the very most. That might get a gyorkees or an evanilson… I suspect the first has too high wage demands and the second is unlikely due to the number of players they have already lost. So it’s a puzzler. For me, with the market like it is and the options as they are I’d keep one of jota or Nunez…get a great cb…use Diaz as the main strand play Cody on the left…maybe pick up a promising young lw as cover.
{Ed077's Note - I wouldn't call me an Imagine Dragons fan. Just know a few of their songs ?
20 Jun 2025 23:56:24
Was it not just some random former player saying that Newcastle ‘should’ ask for £200m?
21 Jun 2025 01:01:47
Honestly, if it's true that Slot wants versatility in his attackers, I don't see how Isak fits that. That's not to say Liverpool aren't interested, but those 2 rumors don't seem to reconcile.