A lack of respect | OneFootball

I have become increasingly amazed at the ongoing push from the usual pundits for Arsenal, and more recently Liverpool, for them to buy Alexander Isak.

I’m sure the Gooners would love to have him, he’s a player who’s improved continually since his arrival, and proved his worth on the biggest stage – being outstanding during our Champions League escapades.

It’s beginning to look like Newcastle can actually recognise a good player when they see one and not rely on simply throwing money at clubs for already established stars.

However, I feel I must ask – is this something that occurs with other clubs in the top echelons of the Premier League?

Are Liverpool encouraged by pundits to buy Haaland or De Bruyne for example?

Or to plunder Arsenal’s squad and help themselves?

This smacks of a total lack of respect.

Although Arsenal are comparatively regular Champions League competitors, they are also a club who very recently have been on the receiving end of a few defeats from little Newcastle and, albeit guaranteed to finish above us this season now, know they now have another genuine contender in the Premier League.

When Arsenal finished second last year, it was the first time they’d qualified for the Champions League for six years, but I don’t remember the press during those ‘barren years’ touting their players to all and sundry.

However, one year back and all of a sudden, they can have their pick of players from a club only three or four places below them.

It again seems that Newcastle United are not receiving the respect they deserve.

We are facing newly invented rules (amazingly imposed just in time for our takeover) that means we cannot spend-spend-spend like Man City and Chelsea have previously done when they got new owners with deep pockets, so despite the massive progress we’ve made, we can’t match the aforementioned clubs in buying our way up the league.

Newcastle United though have made astronomical strides forward in the relatively short time we’ve been rid of Ashley, despite this season facing an unprecedented injury crisis and a very suspicious Champions League exit, that suggests the Septic Six are just a franchise of some bigger Euro-wide conspiracy.

Yet despite all this, Newcastle United are in danger of still finishing higher than Arsenal did only three years ago (They finished eighth in both 2019/20 and 2020/21).

However, it seems the press and a lot of fans believe the hype of this comfy little members-only club.

An assumption the rest of us are simply feeder clubs, or Jonny Come Latelys.

I wonder how long Villa are going to be accommodated before the ‘big boys’ turn on them and realise they too are genuine competition to the Cosy Club?