As a fan of Newcastle United, I am very sick of all this Alexander Isak zonerzin.
The career of a professional football player is short, it is usually a temporary one. Players come and go. It is therefore surprising why some of our fan base are so full of fear.
Alexander Isak scored the most important goal in the recent history of Newcastle United. That is a fact and for that reason, together with what I just sketched in terms of his career choice that has a long lifespan, when he continues, I will wish him the best. He will be a hero forever in my eyes.
Okay, we didn’t have a great window and in that respect we really need an injection of new blood, regardless of whether Isak remains or goes.
And in an ideal world we really don’t want to sell Alexander Isak to Liverpool. Goodness knows, they have taken some talent from us over the years.
PSR is also unfair, although perhaps not so far that some would claim that we should be left to spend unbound in the same way as Man City, or Chelsea for them, or if you want to go back, the way in which man Utd and Liverpool did; Does anyone remember Louis Edwards at Man You and how he manipulated the rules? What about John Goulding at the beginning of the twentieth century when he bought the title by using a bunch of Scottish mercenaries to drive their trade on Anfield?
I am afraid this is the cards that we have been treated, so we have to accept it and make the best of it.
I have a few theories about why our fan base is the way they are and why we are in this mess.
First of all, I think that we are far too emotional and far too attached to those who put on the black -and -white sweater. This morning someone with whom I work said that he had still not lost Malcolm MacDonald anymore. I remember how upset I was then Beardsley, Waddle and Gascoigne left. Let’s face it, the Solitaire League Cup in March of this year aside, we don’t have to scream much.
What if they were almost converted in my life, so that since 1974 we have won the competition twice, the FA Cup four times, the League Cup three times and the UEFA Cup a few times? Could that have repelled the pain when it comes to losing important players? I am willing to bet it would have.
Elsewhere, Eddie Howe (who runs on water) has been too successful.
Imagine a scenario in which Newcastle United was relegated in 2022 and then returned to the first attempt, but was not qualified for Europe (let alone the Champions League) and not two (yes two) Wembley final in its short term of office? A slow burning in other words, gradually, steadily building and not generating expectations in the way he has. It has been claimed that the PSR plan was to sell Bruno Guimaraes (that is why he had that £ 100 million activation clause in his contract), but when we qualified for the Champions League, there was no way to go somewhere.
Don’t get me wrong, it has been an absolute explosion, but there is something with the ‘I have to have it now’ culture that penetrates all this conversation around Alexander Isak.
Not that I am a fan of them, and I know I will be planned for because I dared to mention it, but even Liverpool took a decade to make their attack on the top of English football since their new owners arrived.
Okay, their basic position was infinitely better than the Newcastle United owners who were inherited after 14 years of Mike Ashley, but in the time that FSG had been to the helm, Liverpool sold the will of Torres, Suarez, Sterling and Coutinho. They have also considerably increased commercial income, built a new training area (with lucrative sponsor) and Anfield rebuilt. My point, as I really don’t like them, is that they have chosen a long -term approach and now pick the benefits.
The new NUFC owners, on the other hand, are only four years later, although there are still no new training facilities and we have been waiting for an announcement on the ground for a while.
It seems that Yasir Al-Rahayyan is now in the city and is trying to make up for it and repair the mess. He could start giving much needed communication to the fans.
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