Disrespect on Alexander Isak leaving Newcastle United – Paul Scholes and Jamie Carragher this time | OneFootball

This time it is Jamie Carragher and Paul Scholes, taking their turn to show disrespect on Alexander Isak ‘leaving’ Newcastle United.

This latest nonsense happened on the Overlap, with these former Liverpool and Man U players interacting with an audience of fans from various clubs.

Both Jamie Redknapp and Paul Scholes ridiculing the idea of Alexander Isak joining Arsenal this summer.

However, then going on to talk about how the Newcastle United striker could/should leave St James’ Park for Liverpool or Real Madrid instead.

Maybe it is because Alexander Isak is ours, that this appears to be unrelenting, the disrespect from so many journalists, pundits, ex-players and so on, who are clearly so desperate to see Newcastle United lose their best player.

Just a thought or two.

Maybe Paul Scholes should be more concerned that Man U have so few players these days that anybody would want, at any price.

Maybe Jamie Carragher should be more concerned that Mo Salah, Virgil Van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold are all still steadfastly refusing to sign new Liverpool contracts and as things stand, will all officially leave Anfield on 30 June 2025.

Why not have a big debate on which clubs Liverpool’s best three players are set to go to? For nothing.

In contrast, when it gets to 30 June 2025, Alexander Isak will still have three years left on his current Newcastle United contract. With also widespread reporting that the club plan to get those three years further extended this summer.

Newcastle United will be under zero pressure to sell Alexander Isak this summer, especially from a contract perspective.

Isak himself has given zero impetus to the never ending media generated speculation on his future, every time he comments he says how much he loves the region, the fans, the manager, the club, never giving any indication of wanting to move on in any way.

Since Eddie Howe and these Newcastle United owners arrived over 40 months ago, not a single first choice player has been sold. Never mind the top quality key players, especially not the very very best.

In the past year, Newcastle United have successfully agreed new extended enhanced contracts with the likes of Bruno Guimaraes, Joelinton, Anthony Gordon and others.

Even though they will still have three years left on their contracts come the end of June, I am very confident that we will see both Sandro Tonali and Alexander Isak agree extensions to their existing contracts.

Much is made of PSR and Newcastle United, some of it correctly so.

However, two things.

Firstly, PSR applies to every club! It is not just a Newcastle United issue. Some clubs obviously still get much higher revenues than NUFC but even some of those are in really poor positions in terms of PSR as things stand, especially the likes of Chelsea and Man U.

Secondly, Newcastle United have now done the really really tough bit with PSR. After having to make major outlays with next to no players they could sell themselves, Newcastle have built a really good competitive team, largely due to bringing in the likes of Gordon, Isak, Tonali, Hall, Bruno and others. That directly led to these past three transfer windows seeing no real first team contenders signed, whilst promising young squad players Minteh and Anderson had to be sold to stay within PSR.

However, their sales and those of Kelly and Almiron last month. Have massively set Newcastle United up to now BUY this summer, NOT sell their best players.

Having managed to get these really tricky last three windows without selling any of the first eleven, never mind the key top quality players, why should anybody think that now Newcastle United wouldn’t be able to hold onto their very best players AND add to them?

Newcastle United are top six and competing for a Champions League place.

They have the best winning form of any Premier League club having won 12 of their last 14 matches in all competitions, plus are in one cup final already and have a winnable home draw in the last 16 of the FA Cup.

Eddie Howe deserves the highest possible credit for so brilliantly guiding United through such a difficult period, which included a season which was the very worst in the club’s entire history for injuries (as well as Tonali’s ten month suspension).

Newcastle United are in an increasingly strong position and the likes of Jamie Carragher and Paul Scholes (and the rest) should be talking about who Eddie Howe could be adding this summer to the likes of Isak, Tonali, Livramento, Pope, Hall, Joelinton, Bruno, Gordon and Botman. Rather than this determination to try and destabilise United and endless dreaming of Eddie Howe losing his best players.