Isak has handed in a Transfer Request

From Newcastle's POV, surely Darwin & Harvey & £20m would be a very good deal.

£150m cash up front would be more suitable

No-one's paying that though, and selling clubs know Newcastle have no strikers left so you'll be getting fleeced for his replacement.

He's got 3 years on his contract, Madrid want him next summer

No idea what his release clause is, but likely exists, and will be communicated
like gibbs white clause was.

Why would Newcastle want a pop gun striker and a 5ft midfielder?

Don't pay late or they will add interest like Andy caroll deal

well let's see. I don't really see any takers for him this summer unless Liverpool have some mad scheme. It feels like he's not agitating for a particular move, more that he's pissed off at broken promises etc.

He's been sulking since the cup final

He's missed 39 games because of injury while at Newcastle. It would be smart for him to take a big Saudi contract and make some money while he can still play.

Agree with PP, he's not agitating for a particular move, if he was he would have let it be known weeks ago before other deals had been done, Liverpool will still be wishing he'd done it a fortnight ago before they'd dealt for Ekitike.

I think if he had a release clause we'd have heard about it by now. All we've heard is how much Newc want or value him at.
He seems to want more money rather than to leave and Newc can agree to that in return for a high release clause. His wages are around the 120k a week mark reportedly.

If its confidential and negated by being made public
then it would be nonsensical to openly quote it after
gibbs white got caught.

Even Rooneys missus could work out who would have leaked
it without resorting to wagitha mode.

Totally standard procedure for the owners to want to move their biggest assets to the biggest club in their portfolio, so Al Hilal.

has he handed in a transfer request? is that official?

has he handed in a transfer request? is that official?

Newcastle need to dig in here, he's got another three years left on his contract.

Once the dye has been cast then it quickly turns rotten, Newcastle can dig in alright but they can't make the player behve himself if he isn't professionally minded to do so, everyone loses.

Unfortunately for Newcastle, they have an outlier of a player in that he's too big for where they are at the moment they need him when they finally get to the top table, PSR wise, right now he's just a problem because they can't operate with him how they'd like, he and Newcastle are both big fish forced into a small pond.

What Newcastle need to be able to do is get to where they want to be with a squad of players that no-one else is going to go after and are easily managed wage wise....very difficult to do.

What does that mean? Does it mean he'll forego a monetary reward arising from a future transfer? Why'd another team want him? I understand he plays for England, but England men's are pants.

Newcastle do need to sell players as a further step to top table.

As injecting enough cash without sales isn't possible (unless
you cheat like city)

Obviously replacing him is vital too.

Can afford to pay him 300k a week but then they all want
it and can't afford that.

Seemed obvious he would leave, but this is ahead of what was
expected,...


Is it worth fighting to keep him.. Can Eddie smooth it out?

If he's agitating to leave it's odds on he has been tapped up.

liverpool nailed on

Get an auction going and sell him.buy blokes who want to play.i think you might find in a year or two he is overpriced.poor fitness record also.

Isak is not worth £100m. That is just small club talk and is probably why he is publicly agitating to leave.

They paid £63m for him and he's scored 20+ PL goals 2 years in a row since. He is definitely worth £100m in today's market.

I'd say one or two clubs have tapped him up and he knows he could be on much more elsewhere and wants more money. Why would he wait until the big clubs have spent most of their budgets before piping up if he wants a move?

Today's market? Which clubs have £100m to spend on a striker?


which clubs has Isak scored against in the last 2 seasons?

2023-24 Season:

Fulham (1 goal)

Nottingham Forest (2 goals, including a penalty)

Tottenham Hotspur (2 goals)

Aston Villa (2 goals)

Manchester City (1 goal in EFL Cup)

Sheffield United (1 goal)

Burnley (1 goal)

West Ham United (2 goals)

Chelsea (2 goals, home and away)

Liverpool (1 goal)

Total: 21 goals in 30 Premier League matches, plus additional goals in cup competitions.

2024-25 Season:

Ipswich Town (3 goals, hat-trick)

Aston Villa (1 goal)

Manchester United (1 goal)

Tottenham Hotspur (1 goal)

Liverpool (1 goal)

Brentford (1 goal)

Leicester City (1 goal)

Wolves (1 goal)

Arsenal (1 goal)

Total: 23 goals in 34 Premier League matches, plus additional goals in other competitions.

It just doesn't add up

Jul 25, 2025 -- 7:57AM, SirNorbertClarke wrote:

Today's market? Which clubs have £100m to spend on a striker?which clubs has Isak scored against in the last 2 seasons?2023-24 Season:Fulham (1 goal)Nottingham Forest (2 goals, including a penalty)Tottenham Hotspur (2 goals)Aston Villa (2 goals)Manchester City (1 goal in EFL Cup)Sheffield United (1 goal)Burnley (1 goal)West Ham United (2 goals)Chelsea (2 goals, home and away)Liverpool (1 goal)Total: 21 goals in 30 Premier League matches, plus additional goals in cup competitions.2024-25 Season:Ipswich Town (3 goals, hat-trick)Aston Villa (1 goal)Manchester United (1 goal)Tottenham Hotspur (1 goal)Liverpool (1 goal)Brentford (1 goal)Leicester City (1 goal)Wolves (1 goal)Arsenal (1 goal)Total: 23 goals in 34 Premier League matches, plus additional goals in other competitions.

Which clubs? Liverpool can do it quite comfortably

They get tapped up by their agent first usually

At the end of the day the vast majority of footballers are mercenaries. Given they only have around 10 - 15 years at the top of their profession this shouldn't surprise anyone. Obviously there's the odd exception (Jared Bowen, Bruno Fernandez) but the facts stand.

According to Kieran Maguire who is an expert in football finance, Liverpool could spend another £200m this window and still not breach PSR. Increased attendance, new shirt deal, bonuses from sponsors, have spent 1bn less than Chelsea in the last 4 years.

They spent very little last summer and got more in from sales than they spent. People are comparing them to City/Chelsea and completely ignoring this. They could also get money in by selling Nunez and Diaz on top of that and they've already got £50m in from sales this window.

Real Madrid should sell Vini, move Mbappe out left and get Isak.

well said lurka

Don’t think Liverpool need him now

Who else has got £120 million to spend and needs him?

I think his only way out is to Saudi, where Newcastle could luckily make enough money to clear their worries. Given the fees for Ekitike and Gyokeres no proper club is paying that much more surely. But a transfer of funds to Riyadh North, and a year for Isak to pick up stupid money in the middle east before being sold for a realistic fee next summer: could happen maybe.

PSR was voted through by the big six to keep the rest at bay and it's working, they don't want Newcastle becoming the next Chelsea and City. Next step is once they're are 14 American owners in the Premier League, the trap door will be slammed shut and relegation will be no more. Kind Regards.

Isak

League 78 games 54 goals
FA cup 6 games 3 goals
League cup 7 games 4 goals
Europe 4 games 1 goal

Total 95 games 62 goals

https://x.com/NUFCJordd/status/1945577042503704674?s=19

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I'd be amazed if Isak went to Saudi.

Personally I'd like to see him at Liverpool. Nothing like a club having 'superstars' stuck on the bench to destroy a club's moral.

if he comes to liverpool he wont be stuck on the bench for sure

Liverpool are ready to break the British transfer record again for Alexander Isak, but Al-Hilal are also preparing a huge bid for the Sweden striker, while Newcastle are lining up Benjamin Sesko as a potential replacement, plus more.

Liverpool are poised to make a British record bid for Newcastle and Sweden striker Alexander Isak, 25. (Mail+ - subscription required), external

But Saudi side Al-Hilal are also currently preparing a bid, understood to be more than £130m, for Isak after he was omitted from Newcastle's squad for their pre-season tour of Singapore. (Talksport), external

Chelsea and Manchester United have ruled out a move for Isak, with the latter having already spent big on Brazil forward Matheus Cunha, 26, and Cameroon international Bryan Mbeumo, 25. (Mail)

The Daily Mail

Al hilal owned by pif

Pif don't want to sell isak

Isaks agent talking to Al hilal

Something not right, somewhere, 3d chess...

hs only 25 cant see him wanting to go and play football in SA when he has so much going for him currently

what would a fair asking price be then? surely he cant sulk if his value isnt met?

i reckon newcastle wd want 130m liverpool wiil start at 100 wd be my guess

makes u think what a bad but grealish was for city at 100m

150 million up front.

TD do you sit on Liverpool's Transfer Committee?

SNC

https://bsky.app/profile/slduk.bsky.social/post/3lurwzqex4k2x

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got to be north of 130 imo.140 up front id say and only when replacements sighed.

Which clubs need a £150m striker?

How many of them have £150m to spare?

There's a reason Isak is getting stroppy.

no club is gonna pay 150m

I can't see any club paying more than £80m

Unless mad Jim Ratsh!t or Todd gets involved.

I reckon for around £100m with add-ons like winning the league, champions league, 20 games, etc. Liverpool is perfect.

Newcastle needs to just let him go and take the cash to have time for a replacement. Isak has the power. Can't really see anything other than Isak at Liverpool when the season starts

Yeah, get him up to Liverpool, they are assembling some squad, I reckon that in a year or two's time when the team has had enough time to bed in they'll be a real force.

Liverpool got Salah, virgil to replace soon, blowing all cash in this window
because Trent blew them out for next to nowt.

Ain't got £150m so Diaz away and who else to fund Isak...

Liverpool buy8 g him would be a huge statement but I din5 think the6 need him. The new kid will mature into something special too.

Very amusing seeing all these Geordies in meltdown

He'll go for 115 million imo.

100 max

my sources in the City have just told me that Newcastle are willing to sell Isak to Liverpool for a fee in the region on £80 million on the premise that Liverpool will sell them Ekitike, who incidentally can spell his own name backwards.

Kind Regards.

Any other footballers with palindromic (I thought I’d made that word up but spellcheck seems to like it!) surnames out there?

I very much doubt Ekitike wants to go to Wallsend. No offence to you boys but you were bred to keep the Scots out of England, mind you I would not want to live in Liverpool either but someone at that club knows what it is doing.

Tremendous transfer business this summer. It should embarrass Arsenal who should have shown the hunger. Liverpool have gone batsheite crazy.

I would have Ekitike all day long for the money. He has it all and they will improve him as a footballer and sharpen his finishing. Why pay Isak £300,000 a week with his fitness record?

Why haven’t Arsenal secured Eze? Why did Arsenal pay £50 million to a fair play rival? The kid is not a bad player but Arsenal have still nit signed a centre forward!

Newcastle always sell their Star strikers to the competition. Andy Cole, Andy Carroll, Mick Quinn

Just like we’ve sorted out Nunez finishing

Nunez is a dyslexic palindrome

Eze and Esse at Palace