Isakly what we need

[Farkmaster]

Haaland turned City from PL winning into CL winners.

Isak can do that for us.

This is such a silly way of looking at football. City got to a cl final previously. I suppose Chelsea won that because city didn't have haaland, but couldn't it be because they had their devastating, out and out finisher, havertz? We won the ones I was around for with no real strikers.

City were right there, already, for years, winning everything. Anyone can win a one off game. Even fucking spurs.

And haaland did nothing for city, absolutely nothing, when everything was crumbling around them this season.

 

[Dreambeliever]

This is such a silly way of looking at football. City got to a cl final previously. I suppose Chelsea won that because city didn't have haaland, but couldn't it be because they had their devastating, out and out finisher, havertz? We won the ones I was around for with no real strikers.

City were right there, already, for years, winning everything. Anyone can win a one off game. Even fucking spurs.

And haaland did nothing for city, absolutely nothing, when everything was crumbling around them this season.

Respectfully disagree.

Strikers can’t do it all alone but can add that finishing touch in big moments that bring the biggest trophies esp knock out competitions and since Aguero left Cify had a gap that Haaland filled. Yes City were building but he was absolutely the final piece.

 

[localny]

Edwards running negotiations?

Poor Newcastle.they’re screwed Edwards is going to buy the economic rights to every Newcastle target for 10 years or something like that.

 

[localny]

We were the best team in the Premier league last year without a striker. Diogo was out much of the time and Nunez was as well.

Can you imagine what we achieve with a striker or two - and in Europe we were the best two in the group stages

You gotta think with no strikers we were one of the favorites to win the thing. Can you imagine what we do with two strikers?

 

[ctlovesred]

Yeah, but I wonder what we can do with two strikers?!

 

[Frogfish]

I can see some having doubts about Isak. Well here is a reminder of what he can bring :


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dIhM0JJr1Sw&pp=0gcJCccJAYcqIYzv

 

[keniget]

He's very good but the reason I baulk at the transfer is that ~150M basically has to guarantee you a Ronaldo / Salah type player - a superstar whose ability to deliver results (and fitness) can't be questioned.

The other issue for us is that it likely puts us in a financial straightjacket for a few years. If some of our signings don't work and / or we need to do further some work in the squad, we may find our room for maneuver quite limited.

If we genuinely think Isak is going to succeed Salah for us then okay. Otherwise, we're just overpaying because the market sucks - and though it's frustrated me in the past - the better option might be to wait.

 

[dmishra]

Yeah, anything above 100 million is absurd for Isak. He's a good player, but not that good. Wirtz is a generational prospect - I think we'll see evidence of that season. He's the Kaka, KDB, Iniesta of this generation, and I absolutely endorse paying whatever it gets for a player like that, especially since he's only 22. We either get him for two contract terms (8+ years), or we get to sell him again in 3-4 years time, again for a big fee.

Isak on the other hand is 26, and has some injury history. How do we justify a 100+ million outlay on a player like that by any of the recruitment principles FSG claim to swear by? At 26, you'll have him for another 5 years at best, he won't have any resale value, and I really doubt that he's SO transformational a player that he'd guarantee another couple of PL title and/or CL titles. That's the only way that kind of expenditure is worth it tbh given that you'll never recoup resale money for him.

Another way to look at this - over a 5 year contract, how many goals do we see Isak scoring? In 3 years for Newcastle, he has 109 appearances and 62 goals. So he has availability concerns, and he's not THAT prolific tbh. We're paying 120 million for a player who'll score 100 goals for us in 5 years? Those are going to be some pretty expensive goals...