I dont see why people keep saying this. It’s pretty clear from his and his agents words and actions they want out, that is pretty much the same as a formal transfer request. Putting it on fancy paper for the club isnt going to change anything - if it would, i’m pretty sure it would have been done.
The club dont have to accept a transfer request regardless of how it is presented to the club. And their response last night is pretty much doing that.
It changes things financially from what I understand, but I am open to being corrected here by those who know legalese.
If it didn’t, then I question why it exists at all.
In any case, I find Isak’s behaviour completely deplorable. If it was our player, I am pretty damn certain many people would write different things instead of defensive pitches.
It’s an anachronism. The same as “we havent even put in a bid yet” complaints. This just isnt the dynamics of how transfers are managed these days.
We could have done the same thing with Diaz. He didn’t want to sign what we were offering, the same as Isak. Bayern made an offer way below what we wanted, we said no, Diaz made it clear he wanted out, we compromised with Bayern and he moved.
All that could have happened with Isak too, but Newcastle insisted on their magic 150m figure and so relations with Isak broke down. If we’d insisted on the 100m that we valued Diaz at, we’d have a sulky player on our hands too.
Pretty much spot on
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I did like how half you quoted me. I have concerns but I do understand the player however he could put a formal request in as I know it.
The point is if the company can change their promises in between. That leaves a lot of disgruntled employees. Especially those who’ve signed on for the promise of stock options.
Their window is pretty much the opposite of ours.
We’re the Homer Simpson to their Frank Grimes.
We were open to listening to offers for Diaz though because we already knew we were not going to extend his contract at a level he was looking for and so were 1) already planning for a post-Diaz era, and 2) willing to accelerate that if an offer made it worth our while.
Newcastle have found themselves in the position of not wanting to pay a guy what they promised they would while not staying on the trajectory in terms of competitiveness and club growth they promised him when he signed, and then thinking they could tell him to deal with it because he was under contract. And to a degree they can do that, but then cannot do it without huge and reasonable blow back, And of course the other factor is the interruption of their long term planning from the multiple rounds of executive churn that made the prospect of thing proactively planning for how to deal with want away stars and doing so in a win-win way difficult to do.
Thing is - despite our signings we are still woefully short.
We need to forget Isak and go get someone else.
We cannot lose 3 forwards and replace them with one - then hope a 17 year old can help us out.
Chiesa still isnt fancied and could he do 10 games on the bounce if needed? Doubt it.
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.
Has Winter described Newcastle’s offer of £40m for Wissa as being derisory and insulting yet?
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.
The Brentford owner is reportedly very upset at this because he’s made it clear he is a big fan of the Congolese international
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.
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.
