This is how I would deal with the Alexander Isak situation | OneFootball

The situation with Alexander Isak is incredible.

I am surprised beyond belief at the way he appears to be behaving.

Undermining everything that Eddie Howe seems to be attempting to achieve at our beloved Newcastle United.

Here is how I would deal with this Alexander Isak situation…

Alexander Isak wants to leave and we are attempting to break into the upper echelons of the Premier League, the corrupt Premier League in my opinion. Based on this ambition, why would we sell him to Liverpool? It is illogical.

I would be saying to Isak, “We aren’t going to sell you to an English club, sorry. We have offers from Saudi that we are prepared to accept, where we get the money we feel you are worth and you get the salary you want. Everyone’s a winner.”

If he says no to this, I would put him on the bench every week and not play him.

He has three years left on a contract, a very handsome contract, with Newcastle United. I would let him rot. PIF, the club’s majority owners, will not be held to ransom, or at least I hope they won’t be. If he doesn’t turn up, you fine him a week’s salary. Simple really.

Let three years pass and then he can leave on a free transfer and do what he wants…

I’m not sure whether three years on the scrapheap would lower his capabilities…but I’m sure that it wouldn’t be massively advantageous to him. This also ensures that his agent doesn’t get anything from a whopping great new contract this summer.

If in the unlikely event that he sees sense, apologises internally and is welcomed back into the fold, I would expect him to apologise to the fans for the unrest he has caused. This is the only option I see for him to play in black and white again.

The fact is, this is a real shame.

On the back of a really good season, a season that felt like a stepping stone, he is derailing all of the good work that is being done by Eddie Howe and his team.

I obviously don’t know what is going on behind the scenes with the board structure / management team at Newcastle United and there may be a very good reason for Isak’s wish to leave, but this is not the way to go about it.

Nobody is as big as the club and I would be flexing those muscles and not allowing one man to dictate the future of our team.