Alexander Isak leaving Newcastle United headlines take decisive shift | OneFootball

I want to talk about Alexander Isak and headlines stating he will be leaving Newcastle United this summer.

Please hear me out.

For what seems like forever now, certainly months and months anyway, not a day (not an hour?) has gone by without a claim in the media that Alexander Isak will definitely be leaving St James’ Park in this summer 2025 transfer window.

Never anything new of course, indeed not even any kind of a story really, no substance to any of them.

Basically, just journalists, pundits, ex-players, rival fans, all claiming it is inevitable that Newcastle United won’t be able to keep hold of Alexander Isak, so just a case of whether it will be at Arsenal, Liverpool, or wherever else, that Isak will be playing his football next season.

However, in more recent times I have detected a decisive shift in the Alexander Isak leaving Newcastle United headines…

Liverpool ‘identify’ Alexander Isak transfer alternative as ‘talks planned’ over £55m star (Liverpool Echo)

David Ornstein: Arsenal focussing on these 2 strikers as Isak and Osimhen move out of frame (Fresh Arsenal)

Liverpool fans spot perfect Alexander Isak alternative in £85m striker (Rousing the kop)

Arsenal told to forget about the unrealistic dream of signing Isak (Just Arsenal News)

Arsenal told Alexander Isak move is ‘not going to be realistic’ as Gunners switch focus to Victor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko (Goal)

Liverpool ‘Have Watched’ £80m Striker Ahead of Potential Summer Move (Anfield Index)

Robbie Fowler is spot on – Liverpool move for £50m Alexander Isak alternative could be perfect solution (Liverpool World)

Why Liverpool can’t afford Alexander Isak (i News)

Forget Alexander Isak! Liverpool told by club legend to move on from £100m pursuit of Newcastle striker and sign Ollie Watkins instead (Goal)

Liverpool legend delivers Alexander Isak future claim Newcastle United fans will love (Shields Gazette)

Forget Isak: Robbie Fowler urges Liverpool to snap up ‘tremendous’ Premier League alternative (Empire of the Kop)

Three players Liverpool can sign instead of £150m Alexander Isak (Anfield Watch)

As I said above, there was never any substance to any of the Alexander Isak headlines/stories we were subjected to on a constant basis. However, that didn’t deter any of them in the media from repeating the same empty claims, because they k knew their audiences would lap them up. The idea of Newcastle United unable to hang onto their world class striker and best player, especially their (dodgy media’s) dream of NUFC losing Alexander Isak to one of their favoured usual suspect Premier League clubs.

So why the change in Alexander Isak headlines?

I think it is due to a number of factors.

There will still of course be some unscrupulous media who will be running this same Alexander Isak sure to leave Newcastle story, in the days, weeks and months to come, before we get to the end of the summer 2025 transfer window and then some (brief!) respite from their manufactured headlines/stories.

However, I think that now they are moving on from the Alexander Isak certain to leave Newcastle United headlines, because even those who most want to believe this will happen, are having to accept that it doesn’t match the reality.

FACTS

Newcastle United are not going to sell Alexander Isak for £60m, £70m, £80m, or whatever other daft figures the media would claim. As the club have made clear, there is zero interest in selling Isak and even if there was, the bidding would be starting at a minimum of £150m.

Alexander Isak has more than three years still left on his contract. There is zero pressure on that front for Newcastle to have to think about selling their star striker, instead, the idea is to have talks this summer to come to agreement on a longer enhanced contract for Isak.

Newcastle United are now a trophy winning club once again, at long last. As those in the media and elsewhere have kept saying, when a club is on the rise, winning that first trophy is a major milestone. Gives added belief of more to come, for those both inside and outside the club.

Newcastle United have looked ever more likely to be playing Champions League football next season, now with three games to go they are one of the strong favourites (bookies rate NUFC odds on 1/4) to finish top five and give Alexander Isak and his teammates involvement in the top European competition after missing out for one season.

Alexander Isak has always stated he is happy at Newcastle United and hasn’t given a single piece of encouragement to anybody in the media. Not a single quote of ‘I love it at Newcastle but…’

We don’t even have Alexander Isak’s agents feeding stuff to the media, trying to give encouragement to other clubs, stimulate interest.

You can NEVER say NEVER about any player, as the reality is that at some point pretty much every single one leaves the club they are at, at some point.

However, the way that the media have gone on with their previously unrelenting claims of the NUFC star to leave, you would have thought Alexander Isak was at a struggling club on a downward spiral, that he was coming up to just a year left on his contract, that Newcastle were needing/wanting to sell, that the player was making clear he wasn’t happy, and so on.

None of those things had been in play and yet the unscrupulous media had been unrelenting in their claims/dreams of Alexander Isak leaving Newcastle United this summer.

Seemingly though, not any longer, just the odd exception continuing to peddle the same lame storyline.

Alexander Isak and Newcastle United now just have to take that final step over the Champions League qualifying line and then we, NUFC players and fans, can have a summer of dreaming what is to come. Both incoming summer signings for the first team and what they can help Newcastle United achieve next season and beyond.