Zero chance of Alexander Isak leaving Newcastle United this summer | OneFootball

As always in cases like the ongoing Alexander Isak situation, where there is nothing of substance to actually help inform you, I think it is then best to rely on what makes sense overall.

My feeling is that if any club had really been serious in trying to sign Alexander Isak this summer, the only chance would have been if they had made a proper official approach after the end of last season.

Liverpool did this with Florian Wirtz and agreed with Bayer Leverkusen a new Premier League transfer of £115m by mid-June.

Whether you are talking about Liverpool, Arsenal or whoever else would like to sign Alexander Isak. To have had any chance at all, then surely something similar would have had to happen with Isak.

I still don’t think Newcastle United would have had any interest in selling the striker but at least if an official approach and credible amount of money had been offered at the start of June, then there would have been a decision to be made by Newcastle United and Alexander Isak.

This is where logic comes into it for me.

With the Premier League kicking off three weeks on Saturday, for Newcastle United to sell their best player and main goal scorer at such a late stage, would be devastating.

If the Newcastle United owners and/or Eddie Howe would have considered selling Alexander Isak at all, is a complete unknown. However, the idea that they would now do so at this critical stage of pre-season, I just find it unbelievable that it could happen.

Especially when any transfer now, would absolutely look to be a case of the Newcastle United owners forced to sell the club’s star asset to a rival (almost certainly) Premier League club at a point that would create maximum chaos at the worst possible time of United’s pre-season.

As opposed to something done properly at the very start of the transfer window, which would then have given Newcastle United maximum time to use that extra financial muscle and PSR flexibility to bring in a replacement centre-forward and other signings.

An extra added layer to this is that of course Callum Wilson has also left, so Newcastle United only have the raw and inexperienced Will Osula as an out and out centre-forward option, plus even he has looked far better playing wide right, in the small number of appearances he has made so far for United.

For me, there is zero chance of Alexander Isak leaving Newcastle United this summer.

As I say, to me, any chance of it even remotely having a chance of happening would have relied on a proper official approach around eight weeks ago and Isak and NUFC having the decision to make then.