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Alexander Isak: has a chance to play against Everton (Howe)


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With 3 1/2 on his contract regardless what we do as a team this season he’ll be here until summer 2026.

 

Wouldn’t be surprised if no contact is agreed until summer signings land and show clubs intention. Then 2025/26 becomes the biggest season to show everyone else the club’s ambition as it seems to be forgotten about or marginalised that we want to become No.1.

 

Meanwhile basic guesswork would suggest no one in Italy or Germany could afford him. Only PSG in France could afford him. I doubt Barcelona could afford him unless they cheat the system and Real Madrid have just signed Mbappe and their recent policy suggests they try to get players to run their contracts down to join them. So that leaves us with England which would drive the price even higher. Without too much pain only Man City could afford him and have re-signed Haaland for 9yrs so that move would make no for all 3 parties. Chelsea could maybe but at a push with some juggling but their project doesn’t seem to be that great with a vastly differing approach to ours. So that leaves Liverpool who could give him the platform and stabilised project but they’ve not been able to cash in on Salah as they might’ve privately hoped and not sure the figures required would fit with them as comfortable as some would assume. Then Arsenal who he’s most linked with I feel come 2026 seem like their project cycle is coming to a bit of an end with Arteta. I may be wrong. 
 

Ultimately we just need to ignore the noise as fans and look to the club to either re-sign him with an almost unreachable buyout clause or we let him run with his current contract to allow him to see the club’s intentions and show we are just as ambitious in our own way and budget and then show it on the pitch 25/26.

 

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, LFEE said:

With 3 1/2 on his contract regardless what we do as a team this season he’ll be here until summer 2026.

 

Wouldn’t be surprised if no contact is agreed until summer signings land and show clubs intention. Then 2025/26 becomes the biggest season to show everyone else the club’s ambition as it seems to be forgotten about or marginalised that we want to become No.1.

 

Meanwhile basic guesswork would suggest no one in Italy or Germany could afford him. Only PSG in France could afford him. I doubt Barcelona could afford him unless they cheat the system and Real Madrid have just signed Mbappe and their recent policy suggests they try to get players to run their contracts down to join them. So that leaves us with England which would drive the price even higher. Without too much pain only Man City could afford him and have re-signed Haaland for 9yrs so that move would make no for all 3 parties. Chelsea could maybe but at a push with some juggling but their project doesn’t seem to be that great with a vastly differing approach to ours. So that leaves Liverpool who could give him the platform and stabilised project but they’ve not been able to cash in on Salah as they might’ve privately hoped and not sure the figures required would fit with them as comfortable as some would assume. Then Arsenal who he’s most linked with I feel come 2026 seem like their project cycle is coming to a bit of an end with Arteta. I may be wrong. 
 

Ultimately we just need to ignore the noise as fans and look to the club to either re-sign him with an almost unreachable buyout clause or we let him run with his current contract to allow him to see the club’s intentions and show we are just as ambitious in our own way and budget and then show it on the pitch 25/26.

 

 

 

 

Bayern could afford him I’d guess, especially if they get a decent amount back for Kane.

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1 hour ago, Rafalove said:

Pogba, Antony, Sancho, Enzo, Lukau, Maguire, all north of 85, million doubt Nunez is far off that either.

 

Definitely. Players like Caicedo and Enzo aren't even match winners.

Isak has 48 in 74 in the PL, albeit in just 62 games of minutes. Without wanting to jinx it, he looks likely to hit 50 as seventh fastest in PL history, faster than Henry and Aguero.

Given that we don't need to sell, any starting bid should be for a league-proven Henry or Aguero. That's just for us to pick up the phone.

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1 hour ago, Yorkie said:

 

Genuinely think nine figure sums are a thing of the past in the PSR age. Plus the Chelsea factor undermines Enzo/Caicedo being any sort of benchmark. 

 

There's no market for an Isak that is settled at a Europe-competing NUFC. We can comfortably say "obscene price or fuck off" in that scenario. And no one can pay that.

 

Ergo, if he leaves, it's because he wants to, and we've been forced to accept a more 'competitive' price. (i.e something between what Nunez and Lukaku cost).

 

It all hinges on the player in this case imo. I don't see why he'd want to leave, incidentally. He's got it good here. 


I know what you mean but it feels mad that he would cost anywhere near what those two cost, given he’s twice as good as either of them and proven in the PL. 

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2 hours ago, Yorkie said:

 

Genuinely think nine figure sums are a thing of the past in the PSR age. Plus the Chelsea factor undermines Enzo/Caicedo being any sort of benchmark. 

 

There's no market for an Isak that is settled at a Europe-competing NUFC. We can comfortably say "obscene price or fuck off" in that scenario. And no one can pay that.

 

Ergo, if he leaves, it's because he wants to, and we've been forced to accept a more 'competitive' price. (i.e something between what Nunez and Lukaku cost).

 

It all hinges on the player in this case imo. I don't see why he'd want to leave, incidentally. He's got it good here. 

 

If nine figure sums are a thing of the past then he's going nowhere unless he's in the last year of his contract, should it come to that.

 

 

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all these accounts (especially the NUFC ones) just post this shit for clicks and interactions. Think we should make a collective effort not to give them to them.

 

 

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Given we paid 63m quid for him, at the current exchange rate of 1.2 Euros to the GBP that means we get our money back.

 

Lucky for us we made such a hefty profit on Lloyd Kelly, given we're looking to sell our best players for the money we paid ...

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