So it finally happened. Super respectful, who act in good faith, Liverpool has (finally) made a Lowball bid for the Wereldklasse of Newcastle, who wants to get him out of the club, to strengthen and weaken himself.
Eight months of joint pressure from external media to send Isak away from Tyneside, has resulted in a distant bid, £ 40-50m shortly before our evaluation and an AWOL player.
It is said that ISAK ‘must’ go from United to ‘Win Leagues and Champions Leagues’ and fans of the ‘Big Six’ (and those top clubs throughout Europe) have a worn line that they would like to trot when they want to sign a player of a party that is considered outside of those select few. It has countless forms, but goes something like:
“X Player wants to win trophies and competitions, he must be allowed to leave and go to X Club where he will have a ‘realistic’ chance to win things because football players have such a short career.”
Cheers by Sycophantic National Media, they sometimes show the unbearable “because X will never win anything in your club”, something that is for the most part true, but is massively harmful to football and a facet of the game that the authorities have liked to have been since the turn of the Millennium.
Why could a player not win competitions at Brentford, Villa or Everton or one of the other 14 top division clubs? Why would the chance of glory be anchored by just a handful of clubs? We can all see (yes, of course apart from those ‘big six’ clubs who live in a bubble that are related to those of rich people and real life) that it is wrong that the game is so?
How it used to be
See how football used to be: there were six different top division winners in the 1950s, eight different winners in the 60s, six different winners in the 70s, four different winners in the 80s, and
There were even five different winners in the 90s, considered a decade as dominated by Man Utd. By the first decade of the 2000s this had fallen to three; And aside the Leicester Fairytale of 2015/16 set aside, only four clubs have won the English top division in the last 15 years.
Towards the end of last season, there was a huge number of media attention about 2024/25 as the season to break long stripes without winning anything ‘with Newcastle, Spurs, Palace, Bologna and NAC Breda who all break their stripes. It was praised and applauded, but a few short months quickly ahead, and the reaction seems to be: “We can no longer have that,” and those ‘big’ clubs have doubled and spent fortuines while everyone has chosen players of them, because Liverpool tries to do with Isak.
The exactly the same happened with Leicester picked after 2015/16-best players, and despite making an excellent fist (QFS of Champions League, FA Cup winners), were exiled only seven years later after they were never completely able to break through the artificial ceiling that was placed in place.
To justify
Sky Sports and the Premier League generally have a lot to answer, but the money it has pumped into the game has removed the romance and the possibility of dreaming, as well as the literal capacity for most teams to win competition titles outside of a select number. Unless of course you are owned by an oligarch or a sovereign nation, but the established order did not like it that the first two times it happened, so they stopped the draw bridge when it happened a third.
The supposed behavior of Isak to put aside (and I would still be careful because we still don’t really know what happened and what is not) is the horrible attack of the Sky Sports/Fabrizio Romano-conducted effort to get Isak from Newcastle for the last eight months is only possible because the ‘Big Six is to live, when to live just when it is just when it is just when it is het to do it, are, or when they have something, or when they have something, or when they have been reported, or when they are something, or when they have been reported, it is only possible that it has been reported, it is to win something. With all the zeal of a shoulders from the shoulders.
The only good that American Sport is trying to do
Before someone starts, I am against the Americanization of football, but they do have some principles that have been designed to promote fairness in their top sports, despite the mistakes that are inherent to them. We all know that I am talking about the design system and the salary cap system. Non-perfect systems that have produced at least twelve different super bowl winners in the last 15 years.
According to capology.com, The average Premier League salary is almost £ 3,000,000 PA, but the differences of team are huge, from Man City (£ 230,646,000 PA) to Sunderland (£ 10,132,000 PA). Although this is probably more skewed than normal because of the very recent residence of Sunderland in League One, it still emphasizes the obvious winds that most clubs ride against. United’s own salaries came to £ 88,920,000 PA, with a difference of almost £ 180,000,000 between ourselves and Man City.
I don’t think a depth in this country would work, because our universities were not set up in the same way as their American counterparts, but what would work (and is not complete anathema for football, because there is one in League One and Two) is a salary limit.
A salary limit would level the playing field at night. Make the £ 150,000,000 Pa and see how the ‘big’ clubs wriggle. Many discussions about salary caps used to be concluded by the fact that it was infringement of the EU laws, but that is no longer a factor …
Oversplowed competitiveness
Top level football in England is not a level playing field, and the competitiveness of the Premier League is enormously over-played by Mediahype and Spin, who of course have an established interest in marketing that way, because they have the ridiculous TV contracts to pay. The competition is probably the most competitive but only in the middle; At the top and bottom have been/have been a closed store for a while in the case of the upper places.
Finally, to bring it back to Newcastle, we as fans consistently ask questions such as: why does the club seem to play honestly if everyone is not? Where are the sponsors of the training and training sponsors? Or the more obscure sponsors who seem to have other teams, such as moisture absorption and cryptocurrency? And those are all great questions, but without the authorities running the game for once supporting the game of the ‘Other 14’ (and finally standing up and putting them aside), nothing will change.
It stinks and football should think of these things before it eats itself completely.
Oh, and we have to sell Isak no less than £ 160 million and another £ 5 million pastes every time Liverpool offers underneath. How is that for respect …
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