Newcastle have ‘deluded fanbase’ as Alexander Isak ‘deserves’ Liverpool move…
Newcastle fans are deluded on Isak
Really now this Isak thing has dragged on long enough and should be brought to a close.
Newcastle fans have cried every cry that can be cried, the latest being: if you want him then pay the price of 150mil which we arbitrarily plucked out of nether regions as a club (current market valuation widely available online being 120mil – coincidentally what Liverpool “the cartel villains” are offering).
The simple counter to this nonsense is if you value him at that price and want to keep him then you have to be willing to offer him wages commensurate with your valuation of him.
Reports at the end of June said Newcastle were willing to offer him 150000 a week. Can you see why maybe this doesn’t make any sense? Equivalent strikers (eg Haaland/Salah in the Premier League) are earning 2-3 times more than this.
Isak is turning 26 next month, he is entering his peak footballing and earning years of a short career. Why on earth would he accept a wage 30-50% that of equivalent players in the league. Would you work for less than half than the person beside you? Of course you wouldn’t.
All other arguments are straw men constructions by a passionate but at this point deluded fanbase. Yes you can technically hold this player to his now 100k a week contract, a third of what Liverpool are offering for the next 3 years of his career at a club he has no natural ties to. Is that your plan? If so then smearing Isak and Liverpool daily seems massively hypocritical to me.
Wake up and smell the coffee lads, Isak deserves and is entitled to Nespresso and you’re only able to offer Maxwell House. It’s time to let go gracefully and save whatever dignity you can at this point.
Dave LFC (and net spend really should be within the grasp of anyone capable of basic addition and subtraction but reflecting on the above maybe you’re not)
READ: Newcastle are the Isak of the Premier League as misery compounded by Chelsea
Man does not like long mails and fancy words
As for Sam Thompson’s mail earlier : TL;DR.
Many long and fancy words do not make a fully coherent point. If you want to sat ‘I don’t want Isak to play for Liverpool because he’s trying to f*** Newcastle over his contract’, just say that.
We don’t need all the other mealy mouthed shite!
A, LFC, Montreal
Are Liverpool really stronger this season?
I think Liverpool might live to regret their raft of sales this summer. Obviously the club has spent big already with Wirtz, Ekitike, Kirkez, Leoni and Frimpong, but considering our healthy PSR position I don’t think there was pressing need to sell after this outlay, and certainly not to the £170m extent they have.
However, Liverpool have done what they do and when a player’s market value is offered, when they feel they could ultimately upgrade, they sell. But looking at the squad currently, there seems significant holes where injuries might leave us unnecessarily exposed.
Now, Liverpool might subsequently bring in more bodies which covers these holes, and if so I’ll bench my concern. However, apart from Guehi, which is probably less than 50/50 I am not aware of any other expected replacements coming in. Obviously, I am assuming Isak does not arrive, and that assumption is based on Newcastle being the ultimate decision makers on what happens, and their insistence throughout the summer has been they need a top quality striker and a backup before letting Liverpool try and meet their £150m valuation. I don’t think they will find the top quality striker and I don’t think Liverpool plan on paying £150m. So my guess is it doesn’t happen.
So assuming there are no more incomings, as things stand, our defence seems reasonably stocked. Leoni has replaced Quansah. Liverpool clearly rate Leoni and must think he has more potential to be a starter than Quansah did. My concern is an 18 year old arriving from a weaker Italian league constitutes far more risk than keeping the 22 year old relatively experienced CB we already had, but the proof will be in the pudding.
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