Alexander Isak - International C*nt

[gdm]

Just now, Newcastle Fan said:

Doubt anyone can afford him to be honest, see you in Sela Cup lad.

He’ll go. Probably for £130-£140m

[TheBrownBottle]

Just now, Infinitely Content said:

You may be right, but I wonder what raising his contract would do in terms of clauses in other players contracts and the likelihood of a large portion of them rising thus taking us potentially dangerously close the imposed limit?

Perhaps, not sure on that one tbf  

[Menace]

Ultimately he owes us nothing but doing this 3 weeks before the season starts is an absolute cunts trick.

[Footysteve]

Just now, gdm said:

He’ll go. Probably for £130-£140m

We’ve lost a ton of leverage if he publicly is trying to get out.   I hope we get even 120m at this point.   Would Rodrygo come here?

[r0cafella]

Just now, gallowghoul said:

 

We literally have the coutinho case study. Buy well now with 200 / 250 m and it will make us a stronger squad.

 

it's a kick in the stones, but it's an opportunity howe will want. 

No we don't. That means fuck all. 

 

We aren't getting that much money, the money what we get is much worst and we will struggle to spend it well. 

 

We are hamstrung by PSR and that's IF our owners are as invested as what they let on which in itself is questionable. 

[gdm]

1 minute ago, Footysteve said:

You sound delusional, mate.   This was always the likely outcome… If we can still get 120ish M for him, I would snap at it.

£120m  we’ll have to pay around £100m for his replacement 

[Newcastle Fan]

3 minutes ago, gdm said:

He’ll go. Probably for £130-£140m

 

Who can pay that though? everyone has got their strikers sorted and the rest can't afford it.

[Footysteve]

Just now, Menace said:

Ultimately he owes us nothing but doing this 3 weeks before the season starts is an absolute cunts trick.

Come on… This is hardly a surprise… This was the likely outcome all along.

[gallowghoul]

1 minute ago, Mahoneys Tache said:

We get the maximum we possibly can for him or let him sit in the reserves until he pulls himself together. Fuck the money and fuck the glass ceiling hustle. Make a point. 

 

this is why fans dont own successful football clubs - it's roy of the rovers stufff

[madras]

1 minute ago, TheBrownBottle said:

They are, but his fee would be reamortised, which would free up c.£100k per werk

Yeah I explained that a couple.of days ago. Ive worked it anck of a fag packet style to about 75k. Even 100k would be short of doubling his pay.

[gdm]

1 minute ago, Footysteve said:

We’ve lost a ton of leverage if he publicly is trying to get out.   I hope we get even 120m at this point.   Would Rodrygo come here?

He can want out all he wants the Saudis won’t sell cheap 

[Footysteve]

Just now, gdm said:

£120m  we’ll have to pay around £100m for his replacement 

If we had it done this at the right time, palindrome would be his replacement… At 70M.  Who would we even get at this point?

[gdm]

1 minute ago, Newcastle Fan said:

 

Who can pay that though? everyone has got their strikers sorted and the rest can't afford it.

Liverpool when they sell Nunez & Diaz. It’s been said numerous times. They’ll get over £150m for the both of them 

 

 

Edited July 24, 2025 by gdm

[Elric]

3 minutes ago, Footysteve said:

You sound delusional, mate.   This was always the likely outcome… If we can still get 120ish M for him, I would snap at it.

 

Ok Steve. 

[Crimson Cardigan]

Can’t believe I’m saying this but we need to be more like Marinakis. He wouldn’t hesitate to tell Liverpool to go fuck themselves.

[Memphis]

We have played this really poorly. 

 

Not only didn't give him a new contract, apparently promised we would talk to him about it but didn't until way too late. Knew he could be unsettled but didn't deal with him or the situation until late in the window. 

 

This is shit. I wanted Isak to be a true Newcastle legend/icon but I also understand he can get 150k more per week elsewhere. That's a massive amount. All of us would likely try to get that too. It's up to the club to know that and to make him happy. 

 

But we have to do everything in our power to avoid selling him to a direct rival. It would be devastating on multiple levels to do that. 120m from Barcelona or whoever is better than 150m from Liverpool. 

 

This whole thing fucking sucks. 

[Ikon]

I'm gonna say this! Yeah Isak as a player is irreplacable, i think we all know that and it goes without saying. Having said that, we can improve our first team and squad in many ways without having the same calibre of striker and still be very strong over a whole season.

My biggest worry about it isn't Isak leaving, it's the mess in the background that i don't have much faith in when it comes to getting quality players in, especially with reasonable speed. We can compensate for Isak leaving, at least to quite a big degree. But we need to get it right, and do it fast, (if he's leaving now that is)

[Chapo]

Absolute shambles from all involved 

[TheBrownBottle]

Just now, madras said:

Yeah I explained that a couple.of days ago. Ive worked it anck of a fag packet style to about 75k. Even 100k would be short of doubling his pay.

He’s on about £120k apparently - we’d save over £5m pa in amortised fee on the books, so roughly £100k/pw before we even began any further offer

[Hanshithispantz]

Just now, r0cafella said:

We can't unfortunately, we can't catch up so we never have such a strong position to negotiate from. 

 

Same way Real dusted Liverpool 

 

1 minute ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Learn that we need to be more successful and have more money? We know

It's more the way they've used agents and the press to essentially tap our player up 'legally'.

 

I'm sure we tried similar with Guehi but we barely budged Palace - in fact Parish controlled the narrative there. I get part of this might be down to Isak turning out to be a massive bell end.

[JT24]

I'm glad we've got the experienced head of Andy Howe to sort this all out though.

[TRon]

2 minutes ago, Footysteve said:

We’ve lost a ton of leverage if he publicly is trying to get out.   I hope we get even 120m at this point.   Would Rodrygo come here?

 

 

No, he'd go to Liverpool or Chelsea for a 300k wage packet. 

[craigmadge]

As much as Howe is paid i wouldn’t want to do the press conference after a 16 hour flight 

[gallowghoul]

2 minutes ago, gdm said:

£120m  we’ll have to pay around £100m for his replacement 

 

You're missing the point. Whether it's 120 or 160m, it gives Howe circa 200m minimum to play with this summer. They key thing now is certainty asap - get rid or get him committed. Ideally by close of play tomorrow 

[Collage]

 

1 minute ago, Memphis said:

We have played this really poorly. 

 

Not only didn't give him a new contract, apparently promised we would talk to him about it but didn't until way too late. Knew he could be unsettled but didn't deal with him or the situation until late in the window. 

 

This is shit. I wanted Isak to be a true Newcastle legend/icon but I also understand he can get 150k more per week elsewhere. That's a massive amount. All of us would likely try to get that too. It's up to the club to know that and to make him happy. 

 

But we have to do everything in our power to avoid selling him to a direct rival. It would be devastating on multiple levels to do that. 120m from Barcelona or whoever is better than 150m from Liverpool. 

 

This whole thing fucking sucks. 

Amen