Alexander Isak and Benjamin Sesko now get all the headlines that are Newcastle United.
Will Alexander Isak stay or go?
Will Benjamin Sesko sign Van RB Leipzig?
Alexander Isak was back on Monday at the training ground of Newcastle United and was reported on a large scale to have conversations with Eddie Howe, the United Boss who arrived from South Korea that morning.
As far as Benjamin Sesko is concerned, a decision that was particularly expected from the player and RB Leipzig, in which Newcastle United had increased their offer to a total of around £ 79 million, with £ 70 million guaranteed and £ 9 million+ in potential add-ons as the 22-year-old now moves to Tyneside.
I think the majority of opinion, with both journalists and fans, is that it is a case of one or? That Newcastle United will end with Benjamin Sesko or Alexander Isak, if a Sesko deal does not come to a successful conclusion.
A large part of that reasoning is due to a conviction that the finances, the PSR position, would not extend to Newcastle United with both Benjamin Sesko and Alexander Isak. That is nonsense for me.
I think it is increasingly likely that Newcastle United could attack with both Sesko and Isak next season.
Eddie Howe is very convincing and with Liverpool, only a fierce bid of £ 110 million has made despite the fact that it has been left in the window so late, I see every possibility that Isak gets a wage increase with a longer Newcastle United contract that uses an agreement and an agreement that he can leave next summer if he chooses for it.
This is a huge season for Newcastle United and going into it with a raw young striker such as Benjamin Sesko as the most important (only?) Striker looks a big question. Likewise, just is not ideal on Alexander Isak. As we discovered last season when he was not available, or when we had to play when clearly not 100%.
Both Isak and Sesko in the team can be an important game change in what it would look like with the Prospects of United next season. If you keep Isak, Elanga, add Ramsdale, Guehi says (an exclusive of the Times this Tuesday morning says NUFC) or something similar, plus another two or three signing sessions, suddenly things that look very different from the downfall and gloom that is hung over the transfer market of this summer for NUFC.
The thing is also, the signing of a recently played 22-year-old Benjamin Sesko for £ 70 million (plus add-ons), makes much more PSR/football feeling than to pay, say £ 35 million/£ 40 million for Yoane Wissa that will be 29 next month. It fits much more with the transfer strategy of Newcastle to buy young players with years of progress to get both on the field and on the field and to appreciate it.
Moreover, the idea that Benjamin Sesko is less busy and learns the ropes for a season, while Alexander Isak is still there, looks sweet for me. Then it is possible that Isak will finally move next summer and Sesko ready to be the chief.
Just like the rest of you, I have no idea what will happen, but I do believe that many fans are dragged far too much with seeing any media speculation they choose to believe as a fact, instead of the guesswork and based on lazy assumptions it really is.
Everyone forgets that Newcastle United has no real pressure to sell Alexander Isak. With three years about his current deal, there is no contract pressure for NUFC to sell it, the same when it comes to the financial/psr side of things. Regarding fans who are not satisfied with the behavior of Isak (real and imagined) in all this transfer window, history tells us that as soon as players come back to the field and do the company, all that resentment and accident quickly disappear.
Newcastle United, PSR, signs Benjamin Sesko and keeps Alexander Isak preserved
Some Premier League clubs have a better chance than others because they are not affected by PSR … but it is something that all clubs have to live with.
I think it is clearly a case in which your average fan of a club that is influenced by PSR problems will have much more idea about how PSR works exactly than the average fan of those clubs that have not been so negative so far affected by PSR problems.
For example, your average fan of Everton, Forest, Newcastle, Villa or Leicester will have much more idea about PSR than the average fan of Liverpool, Man U, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal or Tottenham. In any case, at least the basis.
I know that most of you have heard this before, but PSR means that a Premier League club can lose more than £ 105 million during a seasonal period. However, not all money spent counts on the PSR losses, for example expenditure on your stadium and training field (infrastructure), women’s teams, academy costs etc.
Of course, the more money a club yields, the more it can spend without losing £ 105 million in three seasons. However, all Premier League clubs must live limitations within PSR (even Chelsea … ultimately).
So although saying that Manchester City and Manchester United can spend much more than Brentford and Bournemouth can say without entering PSR difficulties, the rules still apply to them.
For each club, the fundamental thing is that what happened to the previous two seasons with expenses/losses, then dictates how much flexibility you should spend within PSR.
That brings us back to Newcastle United, Alexander Isak and Benjamin Sesko.
In 2021/22 and 2022/23, Newcastle United had to spend quite a bit of money on players (and the club in general), so that relegation could be avoided and subsequently made progress, where Mike Ashley had left the club a total mess, up and out of the field.
The clu brokkings showed losses of more than £ 70 million in each of those two seasons (2021/22 and 2022/23), as I said before, not all these losses count to PSR. However, it still put a lot of pressure on 2023/24, in terms of staying in PSR.
Newcastle United spent considerably published in the summer of 2023, because they were on their way to a Champions League season, but as we all know, a reported £ 68 million was generated by the sale of Anderson and Minteh on June 30, 2024, the very last day of the seasonal booking of 2023/24.
When the bills for the 2023/24 season were eventually released earlier this year, it showed that Newcastle United lost £ 11 million that season. Nothing is ever made public about what the figure is exactly for PSR purposes, once spent at the Academy, ladies team, the infrastructure is eliminated, but my gamble is that it is very likely for PSR purposes that Newcastle United will show a profit for 2023/24.
It will take a while before we discover the accounts for the 2024/25 season, but by winning a trophy, Champions League qualification via the end of the fifth, Adidas Deal now in the game, etc., honest to say that the income should be very healthy last season. When, after he had not bought any new first team player in the transfer star of January 2024, the same in the summer of 2024, the same in January 2025, Newcastle United, nobody bought this summer until June 30, 2025, the last day of the 2024/25 accounts. I would be amazed if the NUFC accounts from last season do not show very positive results, especially when it comes to the losses (or profit …) that contribute to the current PSR position.
Once we arrived on July 1, 2025, the new and current PSR Three season Newcastle United Situation covers the losses/profit made in 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26. The two serious loss that make seasons from 2021/22 and 2022/23 no longer counting for the current NUFC PSR position.
It does not mean that Newcastle United can now publish whatever they want.
However, it does mean that there is no pressure at all when selling Alexander Isak or another important player.
It also means that Newcastle United can afford to buy Benjamin Sesko and add it to Alexander Isak (and Anthony Elanga, Aaron Ramsdale and other signing sessions this transfer window).
Newcastle United has had two major recovery seasons in terms of dealing with their PSR problems and then we also have a new coming season that Champions League will have added money in the Clubkas.
This new positive PSR position also means that Newcastle United can sort a much more lucrative contract for Alexander Isak, that, as I have explained above, I expect to happen, with probably an acceptance (or a contract clause or men’s agreement) Isak can leave next summer if he wants to do what he wants to do.
Newcastle United has now recovered from a very bad game from PSR that lasted a few seasons, now completely recovered, a very healthy future is now opening.
Indeed, if Newcastle United has the best possible chance to continue to grow on and next to the field, this season looks crucial, a different qualification for the Champions League, a third in four seasons, would be huge.
Something that in my opinion would happen much more likely, if Eddie Howe has Benjamin Sesko and Alexander Isak to appeal to this season 2025/26.
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