Striking attacker
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The situation around Alexander Isak was stuck and has the Newcastle United team hung, as coach Eddie Howe commented on Friday before the match against the Liverpool FC. The former BVB striker, who recently stressed that he never wanted to defend the Magpies on the field will not be there in the match against the new potential club. Howe was now extending on Sweden to come back. To worsen things, the search for another striker for the northern glands is also difficult. This is supposed to prevent Liverpool from new efforts to Isak, which has not yet made a change of change in his club.
« This is a situation without coward, » summed up the conflict between Isak and Newcastle United-A in which the two parties would only lose. « I don’t think we can emerge here as a winner, » said the coach at the press conference on Friday. The coach wanted « 100% » that Isak will return to the team and even that he was already available against Liverpool on Monday. This does not only apply to him.
« I have no doubt how players would think about it; just like me, » said Howe. « Alex is a fantastic player, a good person, a good character and a good boy. If Alex wanted to come back to play for us, the players would welcome him. » The team tried the thing with Isak, but « it’s there in the background and it won’t help us. » Howe could not predict how the question takes place. He stressed that he had no problem with Isak and hopes to be able to speak to him quickly. This week, the striker trained individually and delayed the team.
Is there a second Liverpool offer?
Liverpool had retired after the first offer offered for Isak and has not added a second offer – so far. According to information from the « BBC », this could still change with the transfer of attacker previously defaulting the competitor.
Newcastle has attracted the shortest to several attempts to transfer to the storm, including Benjamin Sesko (22), who signed United, and Hugo Ekitike de Frankfurt (23), who moved to Liverpool. There, you are now waiting for Newcastle always finding the replacement of Isak that you are looking for before taking other measures for Isak yourself.
Research could also make Newcastle more difficult to be a huge income thanks to Isak-l’Ot rejected from Liverpool would have been 138 million euros, such as Brentford’s example. There, the NUFC announces the services of Yoane Wissa (28 years old), which is only under contract with bees for a year. Nevertheless, the Londoners would have rejected a proposal from Newcastle to the equivalent of 46 million euros, including bonuses – more than 30% above the market value of the Congolese of 32 million euros and yet not sufficient.
No request for a change in Isak – « Change is in the interest of everyone »
Despite all the difficulty of the situation, it seems surprising that Isak himself did not make a request for official change in Newcastle United, if it is, according to English media reports. Such a step can be considered by the club as a breach of contract and subject to punishment. « Promises have been made and the club has known my position for a long time, » Isak recently explained in an Instagram story. « To pretend that these problems are only now at the opening is misleading. If the promises are broken and that confidence is lost, the relationship cannot continue. It is my current situation, and therefore a change in the best interest of everyone, not only in mine. »
Isak had already expressed the wish to leave Newcastle in July. The rumors of Liverpool also prevailed at the time, although Ekitiké was already released from Frankfurt with great financial efforts. In early August, he became known that the Reds offer was rejected in Newcastle for Isak. On August 8, Howe clearly indicated that he saw no way to integrate Isak into the team in the current situation. At the start of the season against Aston Villa (0-0), the attacker was missing in the team. The Premier League transfer window ends on the evening of September 1.