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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Wissa 19 goals last season worth $40m according to NUFC
Isak 23 goals last season worth $150m according to NUFC and other clown journalists.
Therefore 4 goals are worth $110m
Isak is good but not worth what some journos and NUFC think!!!
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I’ll blame Isak for not “honoring his contract” as soon as clubs get blasted for trying to force their unwanted players to accept transfers.
It goes both ways.
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After such a good start to the find window its building upto be an disaster waiting to happen if forward positions aren’t reinforced.
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Thar Henry Winter tweet is one of the dumber things I’ve read on the subject. And that’s something when Luke Edwards is still out there with his drivel.
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We have let the narrative become that we are the bad ones in the debacle.
They will find any excuse to pick holes in us.
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Wissa is 3 years older and has 1 year left on his contract, that will probably impact his fee.
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Agreed, but for me I love Isak as a player but nothing tells me he is a 150m pound player, he isn’t at the level of Mo, Haaland or Kane, when he was in the Prem.
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