You are right, there would have been lots of internal discussions before anything was made public. He could be using a potential move to increase his chances of getting a new contract and force the hand of the club to part with more money. With 3 years left on his current contract that will be very complicated and the club holds all the cards right now.

He can be one of the best strikers in the world and his next contract will hugely impact his future. If Newcastle does offer him a new contract for the amount he is asking, they will lock him down for many more years (Chelsea style)

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He could have made his decision earlier. Preferably at the end of last season to give the club time to shop a replacement and give him time to size up the best offer. I understand it may be a tough decision and he is making it reluctantly, but should have been much earlier.

Good luck with Newcastle if they want to enter a negotiation for Sesko, the lad already thinks he deserves to walk into a top club. There are rumors he has a gentleman's agreement with with Leipzig to allow him go for cheaper if "certain" clubs come knocking.

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Traders usually get a pass. There is not enough liquidity in decentralized options and the fees will be very high if they withdraw after every session and deposit the next time. But there are regular holders who treat these exchanges as an easy wallet to keep their funds safe for them putting themselves in a lot of risk.

I can understand the request to track the hackers and try to identify them if they send it to a platform that requests for KYC, but no one can really help them recover the funds. They will need authorities to catch the attackers and seize whatever they can find on them.

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How exactly is Liverpool still in the race for Isak or even being mentioned in it at all?

He has a contract for another 3 years so if he is too leave it will be for nothing less than £100 million and Newcastle will heavily factor in how much they payed for Ekitike into the deal and milk it as much as they can. Where is all that money coming from?

On the other hand, some closed door conversations go into making a deal assuring a player they will get an opportunity to play. Signing Isak will doom all the other strikers to the bench, no questions asked.
It is all still rumors now, but it is nuts that there are rumors at all.

Also feels weird for Isak to make this decision now. Liverpool were very interested 2 weeks back and some other clubs had not signed strikers yet, why wait for now, except he does not want to remain in the league.

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You brought the bad-luck on everyone 

But it is a worthy gamble, especially when there are no clauses on number of goals or both teams to score, just the underdogs not to lose in regular time. Only thing is mafia allows that option when it the scales are far too tipped in one direction making it difficult to chose that. An impossible choice sometimes.

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I just noticed my silly pick for question 5. I was waiting on the Spain - Greece tie to be completed and forgot to fully read the questions, thought it was which teams will make it to the final, should have remembered that only works that way for H2H questions.

Only 1 point scored so far but that is enough to give me a narrow lead. We still have lots of different answers so this can still tip either way before the end.

Spain were not at their very best, credit going to the German women for putting them off their game despite their light squad. I should start to trust the underdogs more, Italy not to lose was a very probable answer in hind sight for question 2.

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1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Spain
5. Spain
6. England
7. England
8. England
9. England
10. England
11. Spain

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12. Robert Whittaker 
11. Petr Yan
10. Shara Magomedov
9. Asu Almabayev
8. Nikita Krylov
7. Bryce Mitchell
6. Carlos Leal
5. Da'Mon Blackshear
4. Amanda Ribas
3. Ibo Aslan
2. Steven Nguyen
1. Marcus Buchecha

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Diaz feels like he is part of the furniture at Anfield to me, like he has always been there.
Nunez has had more than his time to prove himself at the club with little competition for his spot. He could yet explode at Liverpool for a season or so, but I really cannot see him as a dependable, long term option, too raw of a player.

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I already spent it all out on some slots, but not before joining the current tournament and the circle continues 
Good win you got, I think I spent too much trying to hold my spot when the worst that could happen is I drop to a position I get $20

I think that is because the tournaments come around quickly, but it is a good chance to earn some "free" money.

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In soccer, the odds are set up in such a way that there is inherent risk whichever option you choose. If you try to go safe with the lesser odds, you need to stake more to make wins profitable, but doing that, just one loss can wipe out a series of wins. If you take more risk you have a higher chance of losing but can stake less for a good return.

Most casino games are based solely on luck, does not matter if you stake higher or lower. With some like plinko, you can set the amount of risk you are willing to take and will need to stake higher or lower depending on your choice.

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That is true, you need to be exceptionally good like Haaland at Dortmund to cost that much at that age and Haaland did not even cost that much. Nunex has been at Liverpool 4 years? Seems like he was signed 2 seasons ago.

We have not competed many seasons since 07/08 until just recently, not much to complain about. And other clubs just take Arsenal fans out of context a lot and much recently even the players too.

We have a decent salary structure and should be able to make it work in this case, depends on the player's desire, missing out on the Europa league may also be a factor.

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That is a sweet win right there. I may adopt your strategy before I enter the next competition.

I finished 15th in the just concluded crypto crunch tournament. It was a tough one right to the very end with lots of new entrants and those trying to boost their places in the final hours. I got $25 reward.

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Well to be fair they are getting a striker who is 4 years younger

We have never made excuses, or I have not at least. Gyokores is a proper striker and I particularly like the fact that he wanted Arsenal and pushed for the move, those are the type of players we want at he Emirates, now he has to fight for his position Havertz is still in the squad and so is Jesus, lots of competition which is good if you want to compete for the title.

If we can land Eberechi Eze, it will be a perfect transfer window.

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No matter how rich you are, gambling excessively will have its consequences on your finances. But if we are to take a hypothetical situation where winning and losing does not matter to the player, there could still be an adrenaline rush from winning but there should not be much despair from losing.

Someone in this situation will want to play with much higher amounts to make the games a bit more exciting for themselves.

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Sweet bonanza and Gates of Olympus are the ones I play very often. I have had some sweet wins on them, mostly Sweet Bonanza but that happens only on some casinos and not all, even though they all have the same RTP.'

You are right that slots is not fun to play especially when you are losing, I get bored easily and just set it on autoplay while doing other things. Thinking about it now, this defeats the purpose of gambling for fun, but I try them out of curiosity mostly even though I know I will lose in the long run.

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I watched only about 3 minutes of it and it looked cool, unique. I imagine watching the entire 4 quarters could be boring without dribbles or tackles, I wonder what goes on when they are not scoring goals.
Compared to other 4 quarter games like basketball water-polo is low scoring. I know the time is shorter, but it is still low scoring leaving lots of minutes of just regular play.

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Questions were quite tricky especially the cricket one, but that could be because I am not too familiar with the game. Water-polo is another sport I am not familiar with, had to go check some videos to see how it is played and it looks fun and intense to stay afloat for so long. zi wonder how counters will look or tackles.

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For some time in the season Gakpo was preferred on the left and Diaz was either playing from the front or getting fewer minutes on the left. But there are no guaranteed minutes in Bayern or Barcelona which are the clubs he is linked to at the moment.

With the amount Liverpool will be expecting from him and Nunez, I see them starting next season still at Anfield.

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He is the first name palindrome I have seen in a while in football. Liverpool are doing Nunez all over again, signing a promising striker with big money which puts them in the spotlight and attracts lots of pressure. There was an obvious need for a new striker and the Isak deal never looked promising, but that is still a heavy tag.

With this transfer window all top clubs should be roughly in the same bracket with each having had their splurge seasons and quiet ones too.

The proposed move is to the German Champions and he is not guaranteed minutes at Liverpool.

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