We are hindered in the transfer market as our wage structure is significantly lower than the big 6 (note I added Aston Villa in there instead of Spurs as latter are lower payers than rest). Our annual player wage bill is £35million less than Aston Villa, £50million less than Liverpool, £75million less than Arsenal, Chelsea and Man Utd and a staggering £130million less than Man City. We seem to be attempting to retain a lower wage structure and that is obviously hindering us in signing and retaining top players. We obviously can't afford to just increase across the board and I don't think it pays at this stage to just offer Isak loads more money or we could then end up with an unhappy squad. With PSR we need to box clever and look at ways we can gain advantages. In this case if Liverpool do come in with an offer I would insist that, while we are prepared to entertain a bid, the whole fee would need to be paid up front. This would give us a means of getting an advantage over other clubs in transfers (I suspect Man Utd wouldn't want to pay upfront for Sesko whereas we could) and Liverpool would need to borrow cash to do this, with associated costs, unless their parent company are willing to stump it up. It is ridiculous that we supposedly have a PSR system to protect clubs long term viability but they are allowed to purchase players and pay in installments.
Tell him to get his backside back here AND that hes being fined each day he's missing AND tell him he's still not being sold. Stop pussy footing around and show him he's not more important than the Club.
Maybe Newcastle have told him to get some warm weather training in and have organised it for him whilst all the others are in the Far East what do I know
What a weird situation - finally won a trophy and best squad we've had in 30 years, yet all is a bit unhappy and uncertain right now as well.
Get your sense, reasoning and knowledge off this board immediately. It's hysteria or nowt, my good man.
Shields gazette: message from the very top of the club. Isak is not for sale and they won’t entertain a bid. End quote. That won’t sell papers or get clicks so then goes to an opinion piece on how Liverpool are yet to test that resolve with a formal offer
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