While the Alexander Isak Saga is rumbling, we had a number of extensive and defining quotes from Eddie Howe after the friendly against Espanyol.
In my opinion you could easily read a few interesting things from them about the situation of Alexander Isak – where we come from and where we go.
“It’s the moment I can’t involve him in the group.”
That is a line that makes perfect sense. If Eddie feels that he cannot record a player who is not fully committed to the team and the club, why would you involve him? That is before you respond to the details of the way Alexander Isak has done things.
Training in the facilities of another club is ridiculously rude but not the end of the world. Not informing his manager of such a movement is a huge blow to the face.
On the club side of things, Alexander Isak was promised a new contract by Amanda Staveley and after her departure Paul Mitchell said no, because there was another way to go to his current deal.
Both valid positions that the player has brilliantly performed has been promised a new deal and someone else has arrived and refused. I get both sides.
There is also a case of professionalism. That was not shown of the player or his representatives this summer.
Back to that point that Eddie does not feel that he can re -introduce the player to his teammates.
Alexander Isak currently trains alone and after the players have left. Allegedly he was also omitted from the original coming together on the training field, where players and their families meet and have a BBQ for the season. Team binding. Why would a player be excluded from such an important event?
“He trains later than the rest of the team. There have been discussions since the Tour. I don’t think disciplinary action happened.”
Discussions and disciplinary action?
From whom?
And would the manager certainly be aware of such a step?
Eddie Howe would have the authority to do such a thing and certainly if (like rumors) Yasir Al-Rahalyyan had started and spoken with Isak/his agent, would he certainly pass this on to the manager? And Howe itself would have perfect grounds to discipline a player who could not inform him that he intends to train away from the club.
Eddie clearly stated that: “He is fit, he has no fitness problem”, which intimates that the dijing injury was a smokescreen, or it was small and has now cleared up.
Blocked from player events?
Questions about a mysterious disciplinary that the manager does not know?
Fully fit and able to train and/or play?
The next quote is damn.
“I am aware of a feeling in the team that there is something that is not in favor of the group.”
For me that comes down to the players.
I would venture that the players came to the decision, probably led by the Captains Committee, consisting of Kieran Trippier, Bruno Guimaraes, than Burn and Jamaal LaCelles, that Alexander Isak is not the best idea and that the perspective of a player is not aimed at the team/club is counterproductive.
My gamble is that the players have told Isak this in non -asset wording, or told Eddie Howe that we do not have a training/playing with this will player until he sorts himself. This “disciplinary” aspect always takes place at clubs between players. The senior players at clubs come together and “sort someone out” to say, when a player gets out of the line.
That comment that there is a lack of benefit for the group that it is more common and when Howe follows with: “I prefer to leave it behind with that line. Discussions between us have to stay private, but it is clear that I cannot involve him in the team right now,” this tells you everything you need to know.
“I’d rather leave it with that line,” Eddie seems to tell you exactly what the situation is.
In my opinion, the players spoke and set their collective foot. They have seen a bad apple. You are not going to include a player in training who has disturbed the harmony of the group. You risk tensions and I think this is for Eddie Howe and Eddie is set.
Finally, two quotes from Eddie that point to the immediate future until the end of the transfer window;
“I want Alex to play today (Espanyol) – I want him to train tomorrow. We would like the player to be with us. Let me make that absolutely clear, there is no part of me that that result does not want. But I don’t see that changing for Aston Villa.”
Although it would be foolish to sell Isak before a replacement arrives, I think he is standing in line to leave, because keeping an unfortunate player would be crazy and would be counterproductive.
In the meantime, I think that his teammates probably realize that his head has become irreversible and probably just wants to get rid of Alexander Isak.
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