Alexander Isak - International C*nt

[Mahoneys Tache]

6 minutes ago, 80 said:

That would imply he's as thick as pigshit though, as he otherwise should've known/believed those things prior to being approached and supposedly having his world turned upside down in July.

 

Never saw him as an impulsive cretin, he's generally looked to be forward thinking and ambitious. Still odd to me.

He’s never lived outside the bubble of professional football since puberty though and he’ll be getting his strings pulled by people who live off the scraps from his table so he doesn’t know any better. Not necessarily thick, just naive.  

[Mike]

We should be collectively fizzing at the gash at the idea of this season with the moves we've made and the moves we have the flexibility to make but because this daft fake London accent balsa wood furniture ABBA dipshit can't think for himself we're in limbo instead of dreaming of disrupting the entire god damn thing. Stupid motherfucker.

[80]

42 minutes ago, Mahoneys Tache said:

He’s never lived outside the bubble of professional football since puberty though and he’ll be getting his strings pulled by people who live off the scraps from his table so he doesn’t know any better. Not necessarily thick, just naive.  

Living in the professional football bubble since puberty and he didn't know there were richer clubs with a greater likelihood of winning major trophies soon who wanted to sign him - until one taught him all these facts in July? Until that moment he was just an innocent kid who wanted his friends to sign for the Toon?

 

That would be very very thick. Implausibly so, you might say.

 

 

Edited August 12, 2025 by 80

[Mahoneys Tache]

2 minutes ago, 80 said:

Living in the professional football bubble since puberty and he didn't know there were richer clubs with a greater likelihood of winning major trophies soon who wanted to sign him - until one taught him all these facts in July?

 

That would be very very thick.

Or his naivety is being manipulated by a rapacious agent and the dippers, with the collusion of some ersatz journalists. 

[80]

3 minutes ago, Mahoneys Tache said:

Or his naivety is being manipulated by a rapacious agent and the dippers, with the collusion of some ersatz journalists. 

Honestly, naivety just sounds like a polite term for stupidity in this context.

 

Naivety suggests making beginner's mistakes. He's angling to join his 6th club by the age of 25.

[Skeletor]

I do think his Serbian gangster agent has been filling his head full of "gentleman's agreements" that never happened.

[Vinny Green Balls]

16 minutes ago, Mike said:

We should be collectively fizzing at the gash at the idea of this season with the moves we've made and the moves we have the flexibility to make but because this daft fake London accent balsa wood furniture ABBA dipshit can't think for himself we're in limbo instead of dreaming of disrupting the entire god damn thing. Stupid motherfucker.

You are clearly the next Kerouac. And I don't mean that as a compliment. That is a very Kerouacian sentence.

[Mike]

I haven't read him, did he hate sports but not stop watching it as well?

[Vinny Green Balls]

4 minutes ago, Mike said:

I haven't read him, did he hate sports but not stop watching it as well?

He hated punctuation and loved sentences that ran on for a few pages. He made the Ultimate Warrior look like a focused scholar. Or at least he sometimes hated punctuation.

 

 

Edited August 13, 2025 by Vinny Green Balls

[Pandamninator]

49 minutes ago, 80 said:

That would imply he's as thick as pigshit though, as he otherwise should've known/believed those things prior to being approached and supposedly having his world turned upside down in July.

 

Never saw him as an impulsive cretin, he's generally looked to be forward thinking and ambitious. Still odd to me.

Depends on what has changed - prior the buzz was all Arsenal, which Isak didn't seem fussed by, and is more of a sideways step (might be some Newcastle bias showing there though).

 

The reporting which others in this thread have dug up from May was he was staying... which indicates the plan was to wait a 12 months, ball out in the Champions League and get the attention of a big fish next year.  Liverpool coming in now changed that.

[ennyoueffsea]

At what stage can we add our name to the list of clubs who have banned this agent? 🤔

[80]

7 minutes ago, Pandamninator said:

Depends on what has changed - prior the buzz was all Arsenal, which Isak didn't seem fussed by, and is more of a sideways step (might be some Newcastle bias showing there though).

 

The reporting which others in this thread have dug up from May was he was staying... which indicates the plan was to wait a 12 months, ball out in the Champions League and get the attention of a big fish next year.  Liverpool coming in now changed that.

It doesn't really add up to me - personally I've had Liverpool down as the ones likely to seriously move for him since early last season due to their financial and PSR strength, so I'd have expected him and his people to be able to see the same thing. 

 

To me it's a shocking lack of knowledge of his own heart, and an inability to control himself, if essentially one conversation late in the window (summer windows effectively start 12 months earlier) gets him to break apart his career strategy, personal relationships etc. and gamble everything on burning his boats. It's Nile Ranger-level thinking. He could've made this whole thing a lot easier on himself if he'd made moves earlier.

 

Again, this is all predicated on the above being true.

[Kanj]

18 minutes ago, ennyoueffsea said:

At what stage can we add our name to the list of clubs who have banned this agent? 🤔

def now

[Skeletor]

What I'd love is not only for Liverpool to back out, but state Isak's agent as one of the reasons.

[GideonShandy]

16 minutes ago, ennyoueffsea said:

At what stage can we add our name to the list of clubs who have banned this agent? 🤔

We must have dealt with this agent (Vlado Lemic) when we bought Isak from Real Sociedad.  Wonder if he was difficult then.

[Kanj]

Just now, Skeletor said:

What I'd love is not only for Liverpool to back out, but state Isak's agent as one of the reasons.

Yea backing out for sure, second one to prove a point. 
 

seriously don’t know if I’ll ever make peace with this scorched earth way of absolutely tarnishing a legacy. People will not forget this, they maybe would have 15 years ago but the receipts on the internet will live on in video, posts and tweets. 
 

Alex wake the fuck up man. This is your name, your life and legacy. What the fuck are you doing man?

[Pandamninator]

1 hour ago, GideonShandy said:

We must have dealt with this agent (Vlado Lemic) when we bought Isak from Real Sociedad.  Wonder if he was difficult then.

He was - the stories at the time said we went for Isak much earlier in that window but it stalled due to his initial wage demands being mental.  Guess they got a reality check when no one else swooped in.

 

[AmericanLooneyToon]

I hate the thought of seeing him in a Newcastle shirt anymore but giving him and his agent a huge payday to Liverpool after this pathetic bullshit is something I can't get over. I'd rather watch him sulk for three years.

[Haz]

Naive or not, all this speculation could be ended by a very quick statement from him. 
 

“All this speculation is exactly that. I have never said anything to the press and statements attributed to me are untrue. “

This would have no bearing on what happens next but it might, just might, act like Vaseline as he eases out the club, or, begins his rehabilitation within the club. 
 

Problem is, the Rat bastard has said nothing in any sense or direction. That’s a condemnation as it goes and doesn’t help his case one way or the other. 

[bhoywhonder]

3 hours ago, ennyoueffsea said:

At what stage can we add our name to the list of clubs who have banned this agent? 🤔

I'd say about 3 weeks ago

[astraguy]

With the start we have plus the cl draw next week, he has ruined our start 

[dcmk]

18 minutes ago, astraguy said:

With the start we have plus the cl draw next week, he has ruined our start 

We haven't kicked a ball yet.

[astraguy]

6 minutes ago, dcmk said:

We haven't kicked a ball yet.

Yes but he won't make villa very much doubt he plays Vs liverpool too

[Toonpack]

10 minutes ago, astraguy said:

Yes but he won't make villa very much doubt he plays Vs liverpool too

 

True. But 11 other very good, extremely well coached, footballers in black and white will.

[RUHRLYASLEEVESUP]

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