But anyway, I’ll leave it there.

No need for any hate from there to here. The two cities have so much in common, we’ve had some amazing matches and we’ve shared a few heroes.

As gutted as I was at losing the final last year there wasn’t another team I’d have been happier to lose to. Good luck.

“It's a cruel game, these things happen. Hugely frustrated with that last action. Someone else needs to tell me whether we should have still been playing - I don't know.” Eddie Howe.

Wasn’t that hard to see that the ref had added an extra coupe of minutes on for a couple of minutes of time wasting.

When you use tactics designed to “frustrate the opposition” you can’t cry afterwards if they express their frustration. Miserable football.

That winner was for Liverpool. Howe was moaning afterwards because it came in time the ref, acting *within the laws of the game* added on for time wasting.

Has anyone gone on record and actually said Isak was in breach of his contract? Read back over the actual quotes. Has Howe said he’s refused to train or play? Did Isak send himself home from the Celtic friendly? Choose to train alone? Refuse to go on tour?

Words have been chosen carefully.

You seem to be the one with the gripe. I’m pretty sure it’s that law that allowed Newcastle to do deals with two English clubs today, where contracts were terminated early in return for payment.

I’ve never heard Liverpool fans boo a player for being a failed transfer target.

Howe’s made it clear recently that he has little say in contracts, signings, attempts to smooth things over with players, player fines etc.

Maybe he’d given the player some assurances, that he wrongly thought he had the authority to give - the player could easily see that as a broken promise.

I didn’t know you were there when the promise was made, you should have said. Is that how you know what was said, who by, and when? Take it you’re always with Isak too, so you know for sure nobody else said anything to reassure him at any point? Not even, say, the manager?

That says so much more about you, just you, than it does about him or about your fellow supporters. Well done.

Trent did honour his contract. The legal one, written by lawyers, not something the fans have any involvement in.

There’s no written contract between players and fans, it’s all on trust. Kissing the badge then announcing you’re leaving on a free is a breach of that trust. His choice though.

My argument is NUFC fans booing a player who turned them down for a more successful club, is sad.

With Liverpool fans it’s rare to boo ex-players. Sterling got booed, Trent will, most don’t.

But Ekitike wasn’t even your ex player!

Reds fans didn’t boo Caicedo for picking Chelsea! That’d be sad.

Who said he’d decided to send Isak home from a pre season game? Stopped him going on tour? Made him train alone? Quotes at the time point to Howe / the club. NUFC didn’t want a player they’d made unhappy wrecking morale. Apart from one time, much later, it wasn’t Isak sharing any of this with press.

Wrong. Newcastle can spend more than Liverpool if they can get their revenues to be more than Liverpool’s. But not from charity from a foreign govt. FSG took over a club in relegation form, at risk of administration. LFC’s revenue levels didn’t rise overnight. It’s taken time and patience.

That’s what your club’s owner wants you to think. Glad all that oil money never went to anyone’s heads or made them greedy or entitled or anything.

Did you have similar principles when you got relegated and got the parachute payments that stop the Championship from being too competitive?

Most big clubs offer improved terms to players exceeding expectations.

If players and clubs honoured contracts in full there wouldn’t be any transfer fees.

NUFC wouldn’t have been the second club to break the British transfer record for Shearer if he’d honoured his contract to its end date.

So Isak was right when he said “trust is lost” - if, as you suggest, Staveley told him he’d get a new contract. She was effectively running the club at the time.

Most of us would look for a new job if management assured us verbally we’d be getting a pay rise soon, only for them to deny it later.

I doubt the amount of cash the Saudi Crown Prince has put into Newcastle would fit into just one “Massive Bag”.

Woltemade and Wissa didn’t take pay cuts to end their contracts and join NUFC. Was a pay rise their only reason to join, or was it to join a club bigger than their current one?

Yes ambitious, but didn’t leave the club until the twilight of his career. Didn’t win a league title, but won three times as many League Cups as Newcastle have ever won plus one more Champions League than they’ve ever won. 9 winners medals in all, 9 more than NUFC’s trophies during his career.

Yes, ambitious. Unlike Isak, whilst the club were reluctant to let him go, they didn’t make and break any promises. He went to a club at the time having more success. His fee helped fund the signings of arguably the best goalkeeper and best centre back the club has ever had.

Yes. Ambitious. Like Isak, wanted to join a club with more European Cups. Unlike Isak he ran his contract down so there was only a token fee for Liverpool. Unlike Isak he and the club remained on good terms, despite fan animosity, so he wasn’t paid to sit at home as his team failed to win any games.