Really looking forward now to Alexander Isak being a Newcastle United player on September 2nd | OneFootball

Most of you will have seen or experienced Liverpool fans playing rabid keyboard warriors over the last week and more, on anything written that is related to Newcastle United.

Whether social media posts, Newcastle United sites, local reporter articles, plus of course anything in the Liverpool financially aided mainstream football ‘media’,

Many of the comments from Liverpool fans have been disrespectful and constantly taunting, especially about how Newcastle United struggle to buy players even though in the Champions League.

Question. How many players did Liverpool buy last summer while being in the Champions League? Right.

And remind me again which Premier League club did Zubimendi reject to land up at Arsenal a year later? Right on!

One should diet on humble pie regularly because it doesn’t take long for the boot to be on the other foot.

Back in the day, the FA Cup was THE most prestigious trophy in the land, it held all the glamour over and above any other competition, including the league, due to the fact that the FA Cup final was the only club match in England shown live on TV every season.

Over time that would change, especially when the money in the league increased significantly.

Up until 1965 the clubs that had won the FA Cup the most were Newcastle United and Blackburn with 6. Liverpool had a grand total of ZERO.

In six decades of dominance of English football since, Liverpool have moved only two past us to eight FA Cup wins (the top flight League title count back then in 1965 was NUFC 4 Liv 5, which reads like the scoreline of one of our games, sadly ours hasn’t gone up since).

By the way, they’d just come back in 1962 years from spending eight straight seasons in the second tier.

Back to the present and you can imagine why the ‘Super League 6’ are desperate to stay the top of the pyramid by any means and keep others below them.

Anyway, back to the raison d’etre of the article.

Perhaps the nervousness of Liverpool fans is reflective of that of their club itself.

But why should the defending PL champions be worried? After all, most in the ‘media’ have already handed this year’s title to them too.

The reason why Liverpool fans are getting frantic is that they’re coming to the realisation that Alexander Isak may not be handed over to ‘their’ club (and at whatever price they deem fit) and the same problem (of not many available elite strikers) that currently affects Newcastle United, is effectively Liverpool’s problem too, with eight days until the transfer window closes.

Liverpool last season also had Jota, Nunez and Diaz, now only Gakpo and Salah remain from 2024/25, plus new signing Ekitike, to fill the front three positions, with no real back up. They even sold Ben Doak to Bournemouth (though why unproven at the top level Liverpool academy grads continue to fetch £20m+ is beyond me. Sheffield Utd may never recover from the Brewster blow. Bournemouth at least had one of two such purchases (Solanke/Ibe) eventually come good).

The only way Ekitike will get a rest is by moving Salah to the middle and moving up a non-natural winger on the right – they have three right midfielders who could (Szoboszlai, Elliot, Wirtz), but imagine that front three competing with Man City/Arsenal for 38 games. Though Salah usually never misses games, he’ll be out for 8-10 games due to AFCON (and his form usually dips initially in February when he’s back from it) and Gakpo’s injury prone. Chiesa’s body can’t take the load of starting too many games regularly. So getting in another attacker is a must. Not getting Alexander Isak presents a two faced conundrum:

1) Do they get a world class level striker to do the same job they wanted Alexander Isak to do? If so, how many are available right now? Rodrygo isn’t a clinical no.9 finisher. Would Goncalo Ramos agree to move to Liverpool having pledged to fight for his place at PSG a week earlier? Do they wait until January to see if they can get Isak and hope they don’t get hit by injuries in the interim? Salah will also leave for AFCON during a hectic Dec before the window opens.

2) If they do end up spending on a different big reputation striker, are they effectively giving up a chase for Alexander Isak? Both from a spends perspective (even given PL office doesn’t touch the ‘Super League 6’ on PSR except usurpers Man City)m as well as from a ‘playing time, position, number of forwards, wages etc’ perspective, a subsequent purchase or even pursuit of Alexander Isak (what does it tell the attackers who’ve joined in the last year?) would end up creating more problems than solving them.

As you can see, they don’t seem to have envisaged for a moment since the tapping up of Alexander Isak in March, that he might not actually end up with them this summer.

Their entire planning for the season ahead, involved Alexander Isak creating problems at Newcastle until NUFC gave up and let him go on the cheap.

Now Liverpool are faced with the real prospect of Newcastle United keeping Alexander Isak, even maybe without playing him or a while, but most importantly, not giving in. What do Liverpool do?

The ‘Media’ circus will get amped up to 11 (yes, Spinal Tap are back this September!), if you thought the Liverpool fans were rabid the last few weeks, the next week or so will be…

New increased bid(s) in £5m-10m increments will likely fly in every other day until the end of the window.

So what should Newcastle United do?

The next step of the path has never been so clear through the last torrid couple of months.

Simply REFUSE to sell Alexander Isak to Liverpool this window, even if a £175m+ offer comes from Liverpool pre-deadline, which I doubt.

It will also pay them back for all they’ve done.

Let them scramble for another striker and if/when we do sell Alexander Isak next June, we need to call Real Madrid/PSG etc to an effective auction.

Tell Alexander Isak we will get him the biggest payday possible and a move to one of the biggest clubs in the world. Liverpool can buy him – but only by bettering their bids and by paying Alexander Isak more than they are willing to – taking Liverpool’s PSR situation totally out of whack. Making their existing attackers ask for moves out (a la Diaz) or immediately increased pay.

Also, we need to make the deal date as 1st July 2026. Why? Because we don’t seem to be in PSR danger this season and the Alexander Isak deal will provide us with a huge PSR spending cushion over the next three seasons. Right at the time Liverpool’s spending power would be severely impacted if they went for him.

Or they won’t, then they would see their unethical pursuit of 18 months come to nothing.

It will be an example to all ‘Euro Super League” clubs, that such underhand stuff can fail and leave you with issues, and a message for other clubs, that they don’t have to give in to these ESL entitled clubs and can come out winners and challenge their superiority on the field subsequently.

Really looking forward now to Alexander Isak being a Newcastle United player on September 2nd. Regardless of what the future holds for him, the club and anyone else.