Isakly what we need

[mark1975]

He hasn't got everything, the bar has shifted a fair bit, there were plenty of equally talented players around not so long ago and then there was the absolute quality above them. He's been good the past two seasons, but lets quit with the exaggerated nonsense, absolute don, oh please.

 

[Hansern]

Really? What’s missing from his game?

Yes, he’s an absolute don. Unplayable at times these last two season.

 

[Hansern]

Last two seasons:
30 games - 21 goals
34 games - 23 goals

In the league for Newcastle is «good» btw.
I wonder what you have to do to be excellent.

 

[Markeh]

i didn’t know this, maybe it’s common knowledge. @Beamrider has probably covered it somewhere.

“The ramifications of a move to Saudi Arabia would be even worse on the continental stage. Under UEFA rules, player sales between related parties — which Newcastle and Al Hilal are — have to be measured at zero profit (or a loss), just as Allan Saint-Maximin’s move to Al Ahli in July 2023 was.

Isak could be sold to Al Hilal for £150m and Newcastle would enjoy the cash, but under UEFA rules, they’d be disallowed from booking any profit — thus doing nothing to improve their ability to remain compliant on the European stage.”

so really it’s a sale to us or keep?

 

[Beamrider]

i didn’t know this, maybe it’s common knowledge. @Beamrider has probably covered it somewhere.





so really it’s a sale to us or keep?

I wasn’t aware of this, but I’ve just checked the UEFA regs (G3.7b, fact fans) and that does seem to be what they say. Which, frankly, is nuts. If we offered £120m and they sold to Al Hilal for £150m instead, I’d have no issue with them taking a profit on the basis of the £120m we offered (which would be fair market value).
The rules also work in reversé, so Al Hilal couldn’t buy players at great cost and transfer them to Newcastle for peanuts. Newcastle would have to assume the greater cost and calculate profits on that basis.
However, this wouldn’t seem likely to punish the Red Bull clubs on the basis that players from Salzburg go to Leipzig at more than they originally cost, so they would be unaffected.

 

[darkstarexodus]

The exorbitant fees and overall expenditure becomes a problem if we find ourselves in a position where every signing has to hit 100%.

We need to leave ourselves some room to maneuver in future transfer windows.

This is the real question. How at our limits will we be from both a financial capacity and a financial sporting regulation perspective if we do this?

If we have room to spare, it's not my money, fire away. If we don't, we really need to have a good think and make sure before pulling the trigger.

 

[Woland]

Haven't City and Chelsea efficiently proven there aren't really any rules? I'm genuinely asking and I don't have a dog in the fight. The rules seem stupid. Their implementation even worse.

 

[rurikbird]

A few more signings like Wirtz and Isak and Trent will start kicking up a fuss at Madrid to please let him go back.

 

[Dreambeliever]

🤣🤣🤣🤣


View: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMdiAlCvLbR/?igsh=M251bWhhb3VlM2xn

 

[Hansern]

Just imagine if we could get this guy playing with Salah, Wirtz etc. Jeezees!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdTiiUfJF-Q

 

[KopRed]

Wonder what made us go for the player who can't even speak the language over this guy when they were both available at the same time.

 

[Hansern]

Didn’t Klopp and Lijnders favor Darwin but the data nerds liked Isak?

 

[Best Believe It]

Didn’t Klopp and Lijnders favor Darwin but the data nerds liked Isak?

I think the nerds have tried to claim this but they also said they wanted Nkunku before he turned out to be shit.

 

[jexykrodic]

Haven't City and Chelsea efficiently proven there aren't really any rules? I'm genuinely asking and I don't have a dog in the fight. The rules seem stupid. Their implementation even worse.

This is real world thinking. Evidenced by the constant misunderstanding and clarifications discussed on this topic in any number of forums, media, punditry etc.

Any sizeable organization with access to major law-firms can frustrate process, obfuscate 'rules' and generally avoid consequences for long enough for 'judgment' to be unenforceable.

Accommodations will be made, rules tweaked and the powerful will continue to sail on.

 

[Hansern]

I think the nerds have tried to claim this but they also said they wanted Nkunku before he turned out to be shit.

Yeah, the Nkunku one is definetly a dodged bullet. Although you’d wonder if he had succeeded in another set up and club than Chelsea.

 

[Markeh]

Haven't City and Chelsea efficiently proven there aren't really any rules? I'm genuinely asking and I don't have a dog in the fight. The rules seem stupid. Their implementation even worse.

i get the impression saudi are keen to run a clean club as that’s what’s best for the sports washing project, eventually achieving a gold star for being ‘state owned but good guys’. they’re probably doing it wrong if they want to win anything major any time soon but selling hotels and stadiums to themselves or overspending to self sponsor seems off the table.

i wonder what the exchange rate is for league cups to khashoggis?

 

[Fabio]

Nkunku failed at chelsea due to injury and no real system of play. I'm sure he would have done better with us than nunez did

 

[Tinto]

Nkunku failed at chelsea due to injury and no real system of play. I'm sure he would have done better with us than nunez did

In some ways that's true of Darwin too. We never played in a system that truly suited him. He's probably at his best as an off-the-shoulder number 9 with a strike partner.

The spreadsheet boys never said he was a bad player. They just said he wasn't like Bobby.

We know enough now to say that he's not good enough to build an attack around like Slot did for Mo though

 

[KopRed]

Nah, doesn't explain the poor misses.

He's just not that good. Something to do with him being thick AF.

 

[Tinto]

Nah, doesn't explain the poor misses.

He's just not that good. Something to do with him being thick AF.

Agreed but he’s not that bad as well. He’s scored some ridiculous goals for us and a few very late winners.

We overpaid for his potential rather than for a ready made player, just as we’ve done for Ekitike. Hopefully we’ll have better luck this time

 

[mom]

Can he play CB?

 

[Modo]

People with Alexander-Arnold shirts can just replace "Arnold" with "Isak".

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