Totally relaxed about this Newcastle United striker situation | OneFootball

The Newcastle United striker situation is stressing a ‘few’ people out.

Not me.

It is all relative.

I think that when it comes to the Newcastle United striker position, media and NUFC fans have it the wrong way round.

It is Newcastle United who are in control.

Newcastle United have the best striker in the Premier League who all the other clubs would love to have.

Alexander Isak has three years left on his contract and NUFC are in control of the situation. Only they will decide if the Sweden international leaves or not. The PSR position is strong now as well for Newcastle, so no stressing on that front.

Alexander Isak will only potentially leave if two things happen first. Newcastle United find a suitable replacement AND another club offers an amount of money that absolutely obliterates the current £116m Premier League record, set by Liverpool in June when they bought Florian Wirtz.

There is zero chance of the Newcastle United owners allowing a situation whereby the transfer window closed, with Alexander Isak sold AND no replacement signed.

Outsiders want to believe that it is Newcastle United in a weak position when it is anything but the case.

I think for sure Yoane Wissa will be signed this month, as a second striker option at St James’ Park.

Then as well as Wissa, either Alexander Isak will still be here after 7pm on Monday 1 September 2025, or sold for an eyewatering amount of money and a big chunk of that money buying his replacement, as well as helping to finance other additional signings.

It is the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United who were all in such weak positions this summer, when it came to their striker situations. They didn’t have a single viable first choice striker between the three of them.

They have to all spend an awful lot of money on strikers who all have huge risks attached to them.

Gyokeres failed to reach the Premier League in England, leaving the Championship for the very weak Portuguese league. No guarantee whatsoever he will do it now in the English top tier at the age of 27.

As for Sesko and Ekitike, two young strikers who have scored a very moderate number of goals these last two years in the Bundesliga. Ekitike with 19 league goals in Germany these past two seasons, Sesko scoring 14 in the 2023/24 Bundesliga season, then 13 in 2024/25.

That sums up how desperate the three ‘big six’ clubs were, they all HAD to buy a new first choice striker, Newcastle United didn’t and still don’t.

Alexander Isak had his best ever season in 2024/25 and that came after Paul Mitchell went back on Amanda Staveley’s promise of a new far better contract to be agreed in summer 2024.

The idea he will down tools and not put the effort in next season, if remaining at Newcastle United, is nonsense. If he does really want to move elsewhere, the only way he will achieve his ambitions is if he keeps scoring lots of goals.

There is still a lot of work for Newcastle United to do in this transfer window, but as things stand, we still have Alexander Isak and all of the other quality players who delivered a trophy and a top five finish to get Champions League, plus England international keeper Aaron Ramsdale and flying winger Anthony Elanga have been added. There is still plenty of cash and PSR flex to allow more signings, with Wissa set to be added and I reckon at least a couple of other signings.