Alexander Isak tried to sabotage Newcastle by racking upward valuable needs in yesteryear expressing gamers ‘have the power to relocation where they want when they want’.
The post-target date day Mediawatch is habitually a little of a epiphany via the basic insurance coverage just attempting to catch upward on provision bed linens and whichever gamers Chelsea and Nottingham Timberland forgot to sell.
But Luke Edwards and Alexander Isak are the presents which affirm posing.
Isak it off
Mediawatch would a ton rather relocation on from wondering what has rendered Luke Edwards the technique he is, yet his stipulated attempts to render the Alexander Isak transmit legend ‘mere for simpletons’ makes it unobtainable.
Conceivably the most digital individual there has ever been has sent seamfully on from prompting Isak was not for sale, to claiming he was ‘wrong…yet in the expire 100%’ relevant when Liverpool authorized him, to currently drifting the tip that he owned almost started sift of suit-mending in the guideline of the expire of the period, so Newcastle are better off rid of him:
Some mavens proved, from April onwards, Isak was acting and dabbling prefer a individual that did not want the group to qualify for the Champs League, as he granted it would render it trickier for him to clarify to Howe and the enthusiasts why he longed to go #nufc https://t.co/pYagNs5ffZ
— Luke Edwards (@LukeEdwardsTele) September 1, 2025
A reminder that this is a purported journalist that enthusiastically told the planet in a ‘brag post’ around not spending sufficient time via his family members that ‘I single ever report what I’m told and learn’. So when ‘some mavens’ tell him Isak was telephoning it in for the final months of last campaign, Edwards has no recourse yet to parrot that without sadness.
His Daily Telegraph post evidently has no reference of how Isak racked upward four Premier League needs and helped one in April and Could. With one voice were in feats. 3 of the needs he racked upward or helped were the initially in eventual wins and the last was an 89th-minute penalty equaliser at Brighton, conveniently after which he tried to bring the spheric to seize it ago to the centre circle and commence the quest for a victor.
If he ‘did not want the group to qualify for the Champs League’ after that he rendered a relevant sodding hash of screwing upward points. And why on planet did Newcastle linger to tinker and try so hysterically unanimously summer season to affirm such a ruining authority? Those ‘mavens’ are weirdly quiet on that contradiction.
In the post, Edwards has that Newcastle ‘started to ponder what they would perform if Isak longed to discard’ harshly that juncture. They actually need to have told Edwards, that for months until Isak immigrated at Anfield on target date day was desperate him escaping wasn’t an substitute.
‘They were shown for recommendations and attempts to unsettle the player. An quizing rate in luxury of £150m was the initially and most valuable measure. It was so high, it was gained to correctly enlighten opportunity consumers that the player was not for sale.’
Given that the superb technique to stress how something or a individual is ‘not for sale’ is to arrangement an ‘quizing rate’. An quizing rate they didn’t also grip out for, no a ton less.
Why? Given that ‘Isak owned shouldered out so a ton devastation to his stature, incensing the enthusiasts, that in the expire PIF decided a provision rendered thumbing, as long as Liverpool were willing to reimbursement £130m.’
It’s just abnormal that Isak hadn’t ravaged his stature whatsoever and knocked £20m off his not-for-sale-quizing-rate in April when proactively attempting to shield versus Newcastle licensing for the Champs League by proceeding to rating needs.
At this phase, the arcade is on to go to that can avail Edwards to report just the most batsh*t insane thing imaginable. The individual is duty-obliged to single ever report what he is told so it shouldn’t be also strenuous.
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Fight the power
The comparison between how Isak and Yoane Wissa urged their readiness steps this summer season while Marc Guehi was interfered with from rendering his is most admittedly a chatting juncture anticipated out of an absurd transmit abode window.
But there is that and after that there is Oliver Holt in the Daily Mail claiming this was ‘the summer season player power went vex’ while advising out… three instances.
It doesn’t specifically feel prefer ‘player power in football is out of readjust’ and that ‘what Isak did funnelled out to be the exception… currently, it is obtaining to the phase where it is the norm’.
Is something sift of tantamount taking place three times actually ‘the norm’?
Isak, Wissa and Viktor Gyokeres unanimously ridiculed to train or tinker and emitted some numerous other perverse schemes to facilitate their sends, sure. But one rate a Premier League record fee, the numerous other sent for £55m as a 28-year-ratty in the last year of his contract and the numerous other was habitually attending be sold no matter how he implemented himself this summer season.
Holt’s framing of Isak as requiring a relocation ‘from a group that reimbursements him madly nicely to a group that will definitely reimbursement him also added’ is fantastically purposely obtuse in acting that he hasn’t just authorized upward via the Premier League winners and Champs League favourites from a group exterior the classified elite.
And this jabber is superb:
‘If Isak can avail himself out of Newcastle, a club possessed by a repressive nation say whose rulers are not specially resistant around dealing uncompromisingly via dissenters, after that it can seize void any type of place.’
Sure, the proprietors ‘are not specially resistant around dealing uncompromisingly via dissenters’ yet they in a equal technique weren’t attending assassinate Isak for not dabbling, so what’s your juncture?
At some point Mediawatch implements not disagree via the premise that gamers should at least honour the parts of their contracts which stipulate they should train and tinker while they are able to and being paid for the anxiousness.
But this is just trash:
‘Isak’s transmit underlines the fact that this was the summer season when gamers laceration themselves unshackle of the last lingering appearances that control employment and dedication in the arcade and proved that they have the power to relocation where they want when they want.’
Isak sent for £125m, Wissa for £55m and Gyokeres for £64m. It operated for them to go on affect yet it in a equal technique rate their dynamic employers a little fortune to laceration them ‘unshackle of the last lingering appearances that control employment and dedication in the arcade’.
The juncture lingers: gamers single ‘have the power to relocation where they want when they want’ if a individual can deal with them. The nightclubs they are wound down to still should be reimbursed. This isn’t attending stoke upward some sift of unshackle industry in which gamers readjust everything.
There is a excuse the single numerous other two pills Holt carries upward are Pierre van Hooijdonk from almost the previous millennium, and Sepp Blatter’s daft ‘slavery’ points on Cristiano Ronaldo in 2008 – a year in yesteryear Manchester United permitted him to indicator upward via Real Madrid for a planet-record fee, psyche.
If gamers and reps have actually ‘served alert that contracts are not well worth the document they are was composed of on,’ why did Liverpool have to reimbursement £125m to let loose Isak from his?
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