Alexander Isak bedsheet banner outside training ground – Which genius thought this was a great idea? | OneFootball

Alexander Isak continues to dominate the headlines.

The Newcastle United squad are out in South Korea, with the final match of their Far East tour to come on Sunday against Tottenham.

Meanwhile, Spanish media revealed on Thursday that Alexander Isak is using the training facilities out in San Sebastian, the training ground of his former club Real Sociedad.

The Sweden international doing fitness work with his own personal trainer, to get over his injury ahead of the new season.

Of course, the big question now is, which club will Alexander Isak be playing for in this 2025/26 season?

For all the media are giving us minute by minute ‘updates’ and ‘exclusives’, the fact remains that nobody has got a clue about what is going to happen.

It was 15 July 2025 then Liverpool fed journalists the line that they are ‘Prepared to pay £120m for Alexander Isak’ in a very clear and obvious attempt to cause problems for Newcastle United with their star player and goalscorer.

We are now into August and seventeen days later there is still not a single bid having been made by Liverpool, or indeed any club, for Alexander Isak.

The only thing that has happened, is that this has all made things even more difficult for Eddie Howe with his pre-season preparations.

A very difficult situation that then gets made all the worse, when some genius decided yesterday to stick this bedsheet banner up outside the Newcastle United training ground…

No matter how angry and frustrated Newcastle fans are, this is just embarrassing and makes us look like Everton fans.

Even worse, this kind of thing just makes it all the more difficult for Eddie Howe to get the best possible outcome for Newcastle United.

All that this bedsheet banner does is help Liverpool.

I would guess most Newcastle United fans see the Alexander Isak situation like this, with 31 days to go until the transfer window closes on 1 September.

Alexander Isak will either be a Newcastle United player or a Liverpool player at 7pm on Monday 1 September when the summer window closes. It appears to be that no other clubs are currently in the market for such an expensive striker, that could potentially afford Isak.

Alexander Isak may well have decided that he would like to move now. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean it will happen. Countless players in the past, for all teams, have wanted to move clubs at a particular time and ended up not doing so. Sometimes the (potentially) selling club simply refusing at any price to do so, often simply a case of no other club meeting their valuation. You saw it with Harry Kane in summer 2020, summer 2021, summer 2022, all three times the England striker wanted to leave but Spurs refused to sell him. Newcastle United have many examples in the past, such as Yohan Cabaye. Kane, Cabaye and others not getting the move they wanted at a particular time but then going on to still play at a high level for the clubs they’d tried to leave.

I have no idea what is going to happen with Alexander Isak.

However, if Liverpool is indeed the only potential buying club in this transfer window, the worst possible thing from Newcastle United’s bargaining position, is if it becomes clear and obvious that it is now an impossibility for Alexander Isak to continue playing for NUFC, as one of the potential outcomes.

I am only interested in the best possible outcome for Newcastle United in any situation.

Maybe now it is possibly for the best that Alexander Isak and Newcastle United part company.

However, imagine how sick you will feel about it all if with the help of Newcastle United fans pulling stunts like this bedsheet banner, it helps Liverpool to get Alexander Isak for say £100m and not £150m?

You might think there is no way this will happen but if Eddie Howe and Newcastle United end up feeling like they have no other option than to sell the striker in this window AND Liverpool are the only club making an offer. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that Liverpool are going to have the whip hand, every chance of getting United’s biggest asset on the cheap.

As for those Newcastle United fans who say we should keep him and stick Isak in the reserves to rot. I am guessing they haven’t heard that the club are struggling to bring in a second choice striker, never mind the first and second choice striker that would be needed if Alexander Isak is no longer an option. The idea of being able to afford both of these new strikers (and all the other signings we still need) AND keeping Isak in the reserves, is beyond ridiculous.

My only aim in all of this is to stay 100 per cent behind Eddie Howe and as with everything else, whatever he decides to do with this Alexander Isak situation I will back our genius of a manager all the way.