I hope this has changed and that yes he could play a string of games but I agree that we need another forward. Still hoping that is Isak but otherwise would be okay with Rodrygo. 3 out and 2 in would be doable when you consider Chiesa may be an extra 0.5 this season and Rio could be a 0.25.
Same with Maxi Rodriguez. He said he had been promised a new contract - but before FSG had bought the club. Nothing in writing to confirm this and FSG didnt want to give him it anyway so were willing to facilitate a move for him. Difference with Isak situation is that FSG were probably looking to clean up the club’s balance sheet anyway, so were open to moving him on. But it still speaks volumes about their way of handling affairs.
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Has Winter described Newcastle’s offer of £40m for Wissa as being derisory and insulting yet?
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By whom? There’s nothing to suggest that. I agree he’s not likely to play ten games on the bounce, but that doesn’t mean he can’t contribute.
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The Brentford owner is reportedly very upset at this because he’s made it clear he is a big fan of the Congolese international
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I think it unlikely we would let it get to that stage.
Maxi didnt get his new contract he said he had been promised, we moved him on.
Torres was allowed to join Chelsea before it could reach that point .
Suarez and Coutinho having his back injury are probably the closest to this situation - , in Suarez’s case being refused a move to a lowballing premier league rival - having interest from Barca and Madrid helped persuade him to play, we got him the better move.
In coutinho’s case we and Barca were talking over a deal for the following summer - but he demanded Barca bring it forward afte havingr givien us assirances he would stay for the season.
Isak’s behaviour is drven by what he says is a failure of his club to follow through on commitments made to him over a year or more.
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These stories seem to have disappeared (maybe just a google search bias to current search results), but the fall out of this started early last season and had Howe having to publicly call out Isak for needing to be professional despite being disappointed at certain things happening at the club. The idea any of this is new or taken them by surprise is just utter bullshit.
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The thing that is abundantly clear here is that Newcastle have made an absolute fucking mess of this. Nobody should be feeling any sympathy for them.
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I once was the top recruiter at an agency, made the company a boatload of money as I had a good relationship with Rolls-Royce and was essentially an exclusive recruiter for a number of their job roles.
After winning Recruiter of the Year I was asked to “mentor” three new starters who were struggling to get up and running. I said yes but it quickly became clear that by mentor they meant manage. I asked for a payrise to suit my new role as a manager and was told “yep next review cycle we will do that”.
Review cycle came around and, without telling me, the company had changed my performance metrics to now include the three underperformers. Because of this I “didn’t hit my metrics” despite making the company nearly £1m in 3 months. I was denied my bonus because of it and told I was not eligible for promotion because I’m not performing at a high enough level. This was 3 months after being awarded Recruiter of the Year 
Anyway long story short I figured out two things - 1. Never take anyone’s word for it, get it in writing. 2. Fuck these businesses they will screw you over the first chance you get. I “quiet quit” and spent the next year just fucking around barely doing anything until I moved to America.
Not exactly analogous to Isak I know but point of the story is the same - he feels like he was promised something clearly. Newcastle aren’t living up to it. I tend to side with the worker on this. Newcastle aren’t some innocent party they’re a bunch of billionaires who are telling their asset whatever they wanted to hear in the moment. Isak is just realizing that he should never have trusted their word.
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Before the new ownership, Newcastle United’s main shirt sponsor was the Chinese online gambling company Fun88, with a deal worth approximately £6.5 million per season. This deal was extended in 2020 but was later terminated early, making way for a new front-of-shirt sponsor. The new sponsor, Sela, is a Saudi Arabian events company and the deal is reportedly worth £25 million per year
They have for years been attempting to cheat their way to big club status, and this is most certainly not the only example.
Options:
- Sell Isak get some PSR room.
- Keep Isak and remain in PSR limbo
- Create some more dubious sponsorship deals.
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And it’s happened to me there was a suggestion we were going increase our service provision and to this date it’s still not happened.
As I said I’ve tried to leave I didn’t post how unhappy I was on a public social media site. I’ve gone through the formal process. I totally get all that but he does at this point make it formal. If he has fair enough.
As for Newcastle they are owned by a despotic regime happy to slice off the heads of journalists and women who decide to go out at 2pm. They can pretend their family friendly behaviour all they want but it’s cheap and rather fake.
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I completely agree with this.
There is a sense in which most football fans are hypocrites.
When the whole world railed against Suarez, I just thought he was a little bit bitey, no big deal! When he may have made some unfortunate comments to Evra, I became a temporary expert in how South Americans speak everyday Spanish, and it was all lost in translation. In addition, all I could see was how Ferguson tried to set the narrative, and how Evra - the googly-eyed snake - slightly dropped his hand at the handshake moment to again make Suarez look bad.
I’m a hypocrite. I’m a football fan. 
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Yeah, trying to rationalise fandom is just silly, really.
Demonising Isak for failing to honour the sanctity of his contract when every club in the world discards players at will. That seems a much more unpleasant kind of hypocrisy.
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While many fans can be hypocrites, defending Isak in this situation doesn’t make you one.
First of all, every worker should have the right to withhold their labour if they feel they have been mistreated. In this situation it does appear that several commitments were made to the player that have not been fulfilled. As I’ve shown in earlier posts, while there are similarities with players being upset over promised contracts, squad strengthening or transfers here - either the situations in which they arose were different or the club actively resolved them as soon as they could. In Newcastle’s case it hasn’t done that.
Secondly, it would appear from the Gordon deal and the attempts to sign Wissa, Newcastle is OK with players at other clubs behaving in this way to force a move to them.
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You love the sheer anger in that emoji from Craig Cope.
Dunno what Palace have done to piss off Spurs mind by offering Richardlson
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Wondering how Henry Winter will somehow make Wissa going to Spurs our fault despite Newcastle waiting until so late in the window to make an offer that isn’t exactly the price Brentford have asked for.
Imagine telling everyone you’re a big club that can satisfy the ambitions of one of the top strikers in the league and then getting outmanoeuvred by Spurs for the seventh number nine you’ve tried to recruit this summer.
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Craig Hope writing about Newcastle’s transfer window for the Daily Fail is one of the finest cases of nominative determinism I’ve ever seen 
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