Now I’ve seen everything

@lukeedwardstele.bsky.social says he’s coming home

“We’ve tried not calling it racist and people still don’t think it’s racist. We’re all out of ideas.”

He’ll stick at Forest until J7 ages out in 2-3 years, then come home as clear first choice in his prime. You heard it here first #cope

Why would they believe that? Their problem has been that the consensus that racism is bad created a social cost for them. They hd to be careful whom they spoke to; a reputation for racism could be ruinous. Even in my lifetime that wasn’t always true. People worked hard to build that consensus. /3

So so much want this to be true, but pretty sure that transfer predates the existence of Wikipedia. Now need an entire podcast on how that extremely specific factoid came to be

(Btw thank you for braving x to bring us transfer bollocks - appreciate it!)

For us, I can see Wistamade getting 30+ goals between them and champions league again. Question will be if some of our big players follow Isak’s precedent and we’re constantly having to replace our top talent, which eventually only ends one way

The dream: they win the champions league and he only plays the last few mins in a monumental huff

You get the impression he needs to be treated like a precious perfect butterfly or he goes into lazy/strop mode. First time he has a run of poor form (which he definitely had for us)/doesn’t start a big game will be 🍿🍿🍿

His stats have been boosted by how good we’ve been (which admittedly will raise again at Liverpool), and by him being the main goal scoring man and playing every possible minute (which he will absolutely not get with Ekitike and while Salah is about, their relationship gonna be mardy af)

Yeah the thing I’m clinging to is the one season Wilson was fit for any length of time while Isak was here (admittedly Isak’s first in English football), he comprehensively outscored him (overall and per 90)

We’ve ended up with the worst of both worlds. Playing billy big bollocks only to cave and accept a deal that was always there is objectively embarrassing. Gotta hope the owners feel some of that and buck their fucking ideas up

There’s motivated reasoning on his part but he’s right. I’m of the Alex Ferguson/Ronaldo school of thought (not for sale to those fuckers, warn him explicitly he’ll rot in the stands if he remains in a huff, he can go next year for a record fee), but if you’re going to sell him, do it in July.

Dovbyk?

What are ‘solidarity payments’ here?