I’d prefer Alvarez over Isak anyway. He was my dream striker for the summer, but it won’t happen now. Far too late in the window, and Atletico made their stance very clear at the start of the window that he’s not for sale, no matter what.
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Filling both those spots with potentially starting 11 players would be fantastic, more than we could have imagined. If we don’t I’m fine with things as they are bar injuries and Salah going to AFCON during the winter.
So 2 needed to complete squad 
Maybe not atletico but he would love to come back to the premier league shitty left him on the bench and preferred Haaland.
That isn’t quite true. It doesn’t get Isak anywhere, but it does damage Newcastle.
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The only downside tonAlcarez is that he left Man City because he wanted to go back to Spain because he was homesick/fed up on the rain.
I would have Alvarez over Isak as well if only for his injury proneness..
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I’m surprised Chelsea haven’t put a bid in. Maybe, like us, they’re biding their time.
I know that Isak has supposedly said that he only wants us, but I haven’t seen a quote to that effect. I’m pretty sure that if Chelsea offered in excess of 120 million and we didn’t respond, then he would be off to Stamford Bridge.
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Back to Spain would be a bit inaccurate when he is Argentinian. He went from River Plate to Man City, so Atletico are his first Spanish club but the main point that he might not want to leave Spain could be true, which is a pity as he would be a good alternative to Isak.
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Arsenal should have been competing for him instead of wasting money on Gyokeres. Too late now.
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Only 28 posts since I last checked, so nothing has happened yet 
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You are lucky,went to bed last night up to date,and this morning there were 184 and still nothing!
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I think I’m in the minority when I say I didn’t want Isak to come here when news first broke out that he went on strike and it lasted beyond a few days).
I’m all for making a point. But beyond that it was unprofessional as is this airing out of laundry in the press.
This recent “update” is even more of a dealbreaker for me… Yes, I know there are examples of it happening in our favour in the past. But I believe it is time we walk away from this type of stuff. You can’t be making vague comments in the press that can’t be substantiated and are meant to just creste turmoil. Broken promises could mean a missed lunch date.
they are are apparently close to deal for Sorloth, which would make it even harder for them to let another forward now
Howe was calling him out in public over this about 12 months ago. How good a season Isak ultimately had, and everyone’s short memories (and maybe a lack of fucks given about Newcastle) means it seems to have been swept under the rug that this has been rumbling for a while and the club were the ones who brought it into public.
A short period of so so form resulted in grumbling from the fans and Howe responded not by backing his player, but publicly criticizing him and his attitude alluding to a difficult contract situation and Isak not being focused on the right thing. And the underlying situation was Newcastle were not in a strong financial position and the players needed to get on board with that and adjust their expectations accordingly.
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And the €500mil. release clause.
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I think we know what broken promises means, mate. We don’t have to read too far between the lines for that.
I’m firmly of the opinion that Newcastle have behaved like twats over this.
I’ve had loads of Newcastle fans saying to me that I wouldn’t like it if one of our players was acting like this. Well, no I wouldn’t. But not because of the player - it would mean that something had gone very, very wrong at the strategy and leadership level at the club.
Liverpool don’t have situations like Isak, because generally we are sound about letting players go if they want to. We don’t bullshit players, we don’t break promises, and we don’t spin them whatever they want to hear to get through the next 12 months.
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The idea that “he signed a 6 year contract so he should honor that” is a bit nonsensical to me. Both club and player know that the contract length is to provide financial security and both player and club benefit.
I can absolutely see Isak being told that if an offer was come in at £100m+ then they’ll let him negotiate with another club.
I can see, given the turmoil around Newcastle in the boardroom, that the people who made those promises are probably no longer employed at Newcastle and the new people there don’t feel obligated to act on the verbal agreements of the ones who came before them.
Isak feels like his trust in the club has been abused, Newcastle feel like they are looking out for theor own best interests and didn’t make any promises in writing about a sale price.
Liverpool’s bid was probably encouraged by Isak’s agent revealing what they thought the agreed sale price was to test if Newcastle would follow through. Since then Liverpool have backed away and been silent on the issue, the spiralling of the situation has been down to Isak and Newcastle being unable to figure out a solution to the situation.
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Yeah, but we also heard BS from Diaz’s camp about broken promises.
Look, I doubt Isak comes up roses in this situation. There is probably a lot of fsult on his side too.
They inquired about Isak last year.
Thing is that the clubs that can afford him don’t need a #9.
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However we got here, here we are, and we have a decision to make.
Give up on Isak and pursue an alternative (who?) Or continue to wait for the situation to play out at NUFC in the hope that we somehow get him for a reasonable fee.
Personally, I’m for the former, with the caveat that I don’t know who the alternative might be.
The club surely knows everything about the market though.
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