Newcastle United have not put Alexander Isak up for sale asking £150m – This is the reality | OneFootball

Alexander Isak is back in the headlines.

Well, he has never really been out of them.

Alexander Isak scoring 11 goals in his last 12 Newcastle United appearances, whilst it is actually seven goals in his most recent six matches.

Of course, Alexander Isak continually making headlines for other reasons, namely, the desperation from so many journalists, presenters, pundits to see the brilliant striker leave St James’ Park.

Those anti-Newcastle United agenda headlines fuelled in recent days.

Following a newspaper ‘exclusive’ claiming insider knowledge that Newcastle United see Alexander Isak having a value to them of £150m+.

As we all could have guessed/known for sure, there has then been a feeding frenzy in the media following the publishing of that newspaper ‘exclusive’ on Isak.

Of course, the truth is the first casualty, as all the unscrupulous characters in the media, then look to make it their story, by adding whatever angle to it.

A common theme I have seen from clowns on a certain radio station, as well as presenters, journalists, pundits and so on elsewhere, is one of outrage.

As in, how dare Newcastle United put Alexander Isak up for sale at £150m, how on earth can they claim he is worth that, this is ridiculous, how can Newcastle United justify that?

Well, the truth is, Newcastle United don’t have to justify anything.

For starters, this is just a story written by a journalist, it isn’t an official statement from NUFC!

However, even if we take what the journalist said is the Newcastle United position, then it is still a case of the rest of the media (with very rare exceptions) distorting the reality.

What the ‘exclusive’ actually said, was that Chelsea are the only club to have made contact with Newcastle United about Alexander Isak. The report saying this happened in the summer and that Newcastle told Chelsea they weren’t interested in selling Isak and that if Chelsea had any interest in pursuing this, then they needed to come back with an opening bid of at least £150m.

The report saying Chelsea immediately backed off and the newspaper reporting that this was still the position, Newcastle United have no interest in selling Alexander Isak and that any club would need to come up with at least £150m to start the bidding.

It is a bit like you sitting at home and you get a knock on the door, some random saying they want to buy your house. You tell them you love your house, have no intention of moving, that if they are serious they need to come back with an offer of a million quid (or whatever figure you want to give that signals you have zero intention of selling). Imagine then you start seeing reports in the media, calling you ridiculous because you are demanding £1m to sell your house… when reality is, you have effectively just told this chancer knocking on your door to do one, quoting them a price that you know they won’t pay.

Yet with this Alexander Isak story and the way most of the media are reporting it, you would think that Newcastle United had put up a massive sign outside St James’ Park, declaring ‘Alexander Isak for sale, viewings can be made at any NUFC match, available at £150m to any buyer’….

Newcastle United have NOT said they are wanting/willing to sell Alexander Isak. Indeed, quite the opposite.

They are instead saying Alexander Isak is pretty much priceless in terms of value to Newcastle United.

That even if for some reason the striker was sold, then the bidding would start at £150m.

Alexander Isak has three and a half years left on his Newcastle United contract, there is absolutely no pressure on NUFC To sell him. It is very different to Palace with Guehi, who is refusing to sign a new contract and has only 18 months left on his contract, a very real chance he could leave for nothing if Palace don’t sell him in one of the next two windows. Even more so in the case of Liverpool, arguably their three best players are all refusing to sign new contracts and have only six months left on their deals, with Salah, van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold all potentially walking away at the end of June 2025 and Liverpool receiving not a penny for the trio.

Back to Alexander Isak, Newcastle United and what the media are saying.

The reality of course is that every single player has their price.

If offered enough, any club would sell their best player. The finances dictate this, especially in these PSR times.

A bit like if somebody knocked on your door and did have £1m cash in a bag to seriously offer for your two or three bedroom flat/house.

Man City would sell Haaland if enough cash was offered, same with Arsenal and Saka, Chelsea and Cole Palmer, Man U and…..???

Newcastle United paid £63m for a 22 year old still relatively unproven striker in August 2022, now he is a world class forward and any fan of any Premier League side would love him in their team, indeed, a fan of any club in the world.

Yet you get these pundits and journalists still talking as though Isak’s true valuation is £100m or even less, it is just laughable. Mediocre midfielders like Rice, Caicedo and Fernandez were bought for more, Grealish cost £100m.

Put it this way, I wouldn’t take any two of those four players in return for Alexander Isak, so if all four of those cost £100m+ each, what does that make Isak worth???

As always, the true value of something is at any one time, what somebody will willingly pay for it (him) and what somebody at the same time will willingly sell it (him) for.

No chance of Newcastle United selling Alexander Isak for less than £150m and seemingly no chance of any other club paying £150m+ for the Sweden international.