London media report Newcastle United could now sell Alexander Isak to Chelsea – You have to laugh | OneFootball

Media in London have now claimed that Newcastle United could sell Alexander Isak to Chelsea.

These claims coming just days before the Premier League season kicks off.

Football London headline and story – 11 August 2024:

‘Chelsea could complete Alexander Isak transfer with Madueke Swap deal’

Yes, on Sunday night, the Football London site wanting us all to believe that Newcastle United would sell their best player and star goalscorer, just before the opening Premier League game of the season.

This despite Callum Wilson missing the start of the season through injury and the only other out-and-out striking option, young raw recruit Will Osula who is yet to score a Premier League goal.

Yes, I can just see Eddie Howe and the Newcastle United owners rushing to do this, to sink our season before it has even kicked off.

It is a bit like the nonsense (see below) back in June, when we were supposed to believe that Newcastle United would take a cut-price deal on Alexander Isak from the West London club AND take one or more of their previous poor failed signings to bring the transfer price down even further!

This time, Football London claiming Newcastle United could be willing to take winger Madueke to bring Isak’s price down. This is Madueke who has struggled to get a game for Chelsea, starting just 20 Premier League games for them since arriving 19 months ago, despite all the injury issues Chelsea had last season.

With the madness going on at Stamford Bridge and numerous signings made this summer once again, BBC Sport reported at the weekend how Chelsea have now ended up with a first-team squad of more than 50 players currently, with another quarter of a billion spent so far in this window, making it over one and a half billion pounds since these owners took over two years ago.

The London media thinking a striker of the class and current profile of Alexander Isak would even for a second consider joining a club like Chelsea, is simply hilarious.

The Mag report – 29 June 2024:

‘Alexander Isak is Newcastle United’s biggest asset, best goalscorer, and key to the season(s) ahead. He has over four years left on his contract so Newcastle is under no pressure at all on that front.

Most obvious of all though, is why on earth would Alexander Isak have any interest in joining Chelsea, even if he did leave Newcastle United? Not forgetting the small matter of course that Alexander Isak has repeatedly said how happy he is at St James’ Park and repeated this yet again this month when on international duty with Sweden, stating he had no intention of leaving Newcastle United this summer.

Following on from that initial claimed approach from Chelsea, The Telegraph and others reported that there was no chance of the Stamford Bridge club getting a deal done, as even if Newcastle United were willing to sell, a new Premier League record (over and above the £115m Chelsea paid for Caicedo) would be needed to be paid by Chelsea or whoever, when it came to the cost of any potential deal to buy Alexander Isak. That is before you come to the wages Alexander Isal would expect if becoming the Premier League’s most expensive player.

Indeed, never mind offering to break the Premier League transfer record that they paid for a very mediocre midfielder in Caicedo, instead, Chelsea said not to even be willing to go to £100m if Newcastle were prepared to sell Isak. Seen as Alexander Isak was bought for £63m two years ago and has proved a brilliant signing and goalscorer at the highest level, making a profit of around £30m or even less on the club’s biggest asset would be crazy. Especially as Newcastle United would then have to go out and buy a high quality replacement.

It gets worse, as it is also reported that any deal could have been dependent on Newcastle United taking one or more of the Chelsea players as part payment, to make a deal happen. Imagine that, losing our best player and goalscorer, plus taking on some of the many rubbish now unwanted signings that Chelsea is desperate to get rid of!

The Telegraph also states that Chelsea wasn’t even in a position to be able/willing to offer the level of wages Alexander Isak would have demanded, if willing to go to Stamford Bridge.

The whole thing just sounds like a joke, if indeed there has been any move/contact from Chelsea, it appears to be them just trying to make it look to their fans as though they are trying to sign quality players and/or expecting Newcastle United and the player to do things on the cheap.