Alexander Isak

What drama. It's a shame he hasn't signed for Liverpool yet. It would have given their meeting Monday night some added spice.

Shearer has had a go at him and Michael Owen stuck up for him, so no surprises with those two.

His statement the other day was interesting. I wonder if he's kept the receipts to back up that they told him last summer he could leave after one more season.

There is no point keeping hold of someone who doesn't want to be there. Wayyyyyyy more fuss is made when a player wants to leave a club, but nothing is said when a club releases dozens every summer.

 

Ne madness for them to do something before this game ... now afterwards is a different matter

 

Just cause absolute chaos if they do a transfer before. 100% right for both clubs to wait, if it is going to happen.

Amount of players now acting up, having hissy fits, whilst under contract, is disgusting. Wissa, Gyokores, Isak to name 3... gentleman contracts are ridiculous. You signed a real contract so turn up on time, train hard & play to the best of your ability until you do leave.

 

If I was Slot I'd be having serious reservations about signing Isak after the way he's conducted himself.

 

I agree, although Newcastle themselves don't seem put off by Wissas' similar actions....

 

I reckon Newcastle will honour their promise to let him leave, just as soon as they get an acceptable offer.

 

They were also happy to recruit Anthony Gordon in the same way.
What goes around comes around..

 

Over to you Mladen.

 

Totally agree.

 

Isak sould have just stay quiet, he signed a contract at Newcastle and fair enough they told him he can go if the right offer came in which they haven’t had. I know the Gordon thing was similar but Newcastle didn’t offer 40 million under his asking price.

 

Another grubby example of why football is broken.

A mega wealthy millionaire, happy to sign a binding contract to play for a club for a period of time, now wants to ignore that contract so he can play for another club and I suspect be even wealthier. In a few years time, he'll get an offer to be even wealthier still, probably in a country with human rights abuses and he'll wail and moan he's not being allowed to get wealthier still.

I'd gladly create an 80% tax band for these grubby greedy morally bankrupt individuals who get mega wealth for kicking a bag of wind about yet add nothing good to the fabric of society.

 

Likewise mate. If Barcelona or Real Madrid come knocking in 2 years time, no reason to think he wouldnt do same at Liverpool

 

I wonder how much total gets fetched in every season from the whole of English football. Taxes galore. Local business, food, hotels, merchandise, tourists, taxis, trains, pubs & clubs etc...

P.s I do agree with you, id love to see it, though it would never happen obviously. They work hard, sure, but you can tell half of them don't know how privileged they are.

 

Not really.

Everton wanted to sell him for PSR reasons.

 

I suspect not very much to be honest, in tax take at least. And given the ridiculous excess of wages the upper echelons get I suspect there are tax schemes galore squirreling their earnings away.

You could also look at it in terms of pollution and emissions. Think how much waste and consumption is purely down to footballers, owners and the people that follow them. The concrete, the glass, the cars and planes.

 

No sympathy. If he really wanted to go he could hand in a transfer request, but he won't because it means he'll forfeit some bonuses etc. So instead he acts the **** and spits his dummy out on social media.

 

Isak has had a shocker.

He has 3 years left on his contract & Newcastle are back in the champions league so they don’t need to sell for PSR reasons like they did the previous summer with Anderson.

How does he think this is going to play out?

If he keeps refusing to play he will just get fined every week & will have no income.

Does he really think Newcastle are going to accept £110m when Grealish went for £100m, Caicedo for £115m, Maguire for £80m, Hojlund for £75m etc.

Nearly all modern fees are ridiculous but if that’s the going rates for them type of players then of course Newcastle will want far more for a proven elite striker who’s about to enter his prime years.

 

To be fair to Wissa he is training and available to play for Brentford, he deleted his social media accounts which is fair enough

 

Isn't this what release clauses were created for? I've not been following this case in detail, but if there's a release clause in his contract then presumably this wouldn't be dragging on, and if there isn't then that's on him and his agent. I've had to negotiate my own contracts from time to time, and it's not always easy when one is dealing with a big organisation, but one always has the right not to sign and IMHO it's reasonable to expect both sides to honour a signed contract. I remember one company telling me that I could ignore some particularly onerous clauses because they would never be invoked. I told them if that were the case then they could delete them and we'd be good. They refused. I walked away. And I wasn't paying an agent huge sums to do that negotiation for me.

 

One for the conspiracy theorists.

He was poor after the cup final. The rest of the team really stepped it up but he was off it.

The rumours at the time were that he was carrying an injury & was playing through it to help his team & would have an operation as soon as the season ended.

He didn’t have an operation & then demanded a move.

Did he deliberately not try as hard in the hope that Newcastle didn’t qualify for the champions league & would then have to sell him?

I didn’t see enough of their games to judge but he was shocking against Chelsea & plenty of Newcastle fans are convinced he stopped trying.