Alexander Isak to Barcelona – Maybe the most embarrassing so far | OneFootball

Alexander Isak scored on Sunday.

The Newcastle United striker getting the key equaliser, that then sparked the eventual comfortable 3-1 away win at Nottingham Forest, which was absolutely deserved.

Scoring in his fourth Newcastle United game in a row. saw Alexander Isak trigger wild celebrations in the NUFC away end at the City Ground.

It wasn’t the only thing it triggered though.

As we have all been subjected to an even higher concentration of media nonsense surrounding Alexander Isak.

Arsenal ex-players and their fans maybe the most embarrassing. Their laughable arrogance giving them a belief that Alexander Isak would for some bizarre reason, instantly jump at the chance of leaving Newcastle United for Arsenal, without a second thought. Some Arsenal fans even wanting to believe that Alexander Isak is a lifelong Arsenal fan who would walk to The Emirates given the chance, play for nothing etc etc.

I thought that was the most embarrassing thing I would read in this international break.

I was wrong.

Amongst all the rubbish I have seen about Alexander Isak, this stands out.

‘Barcelona sent scouts to watch €75 million-rated Premier League forward

Barcelona’s interest in Newcastle United forward Alexander Isak is growing stronger, according to a recent report from Fichajes.

The outlet mentions that the club has already taken steps to monitor his performances more closely by sending scouts to watch him play during Newcastle’s Premier League match against Nottingham Forest.

This move is a clear indication that Barcelona see Isak as a potential target, especially as they search for a short-term solution to succeed Robert Lewandowski.’

It is from one of the proliferation of sites these days, that will literally say/claim anything.

This above from something called ‘Barca News’ and along with all other big clubs, Barcelona has any number of sites looking to make money from ‘stories’ about them.

Newcastle United paid £63m (£59m plus £4m in future add-ons) for Alexander Isak back in August 2022, as a decent 22 year old goalscorer in La Liga, who had the potential to do even better.

Since moving to the toughest league in the world, Alexander Isak has scored 35 goals in 53 Premier League starts (plus eight appearances off the bench).

This season Alexander Isak has had six direct goal involvements in nine Premier League appearances, four goals and two assists. Whilst for club and country in all competitions, his 13 appearances have produced 10 direct goal involvements, scoring eight and two assists.

So now he is a proven world class striker and goalscorer, doing it in the toughest league in the world, in his prime aged 25 and many years left at the top level, with almost four years still remaining on his Newcastle United contract…

This Barca News headline proclaims Alexander Isak to be this ‘€75 million-rated Premier League forward’ that Barcelona could be buying.

So Newcastle United paid £63m in August 2022 for Alexander Isak and he has been sensational, yet now after all of that, Isak’s value is ‘€75million’, which at today’s exchange rate, is the equivalent of £62.42million.

The suggestion being, that Barcelona could potentially buy Alexander Isak for LESS than Newcastle United paid for that relatively raw young striker, who still had to prove so much of that potential.

This sums up the nonsense we are constantly subjected to.

When Arsenal fans and others talk about potentially signing Alexander Isak, I regularly see them quoting similar daft fantasy figures they think they could/would get him for – £65m, £70m, £75m etc etc.

I remember back in the summer, there were similar nonsense media claims, especially from the continent, about Bruno Guimaraes. Claims in the French and Spanish media that there was a ‘special’ clause that would allow ‘Champions League clubs’ to get Bruno Guimaraes for far lower than the much reported £100m release clause that existed up until the end of June in his contract. Claims that Bruno could be bought by the likes of PSG or Barcelona for £80m or even less, due to this ‘secret’ other ‘Champions League clubs’ release clause.

It is laughable to think that Newcastle United would have agreed to any special far lower Bruno Guimaraes contract release clause figure for ‘Champions League clubs’, because if for whatever reasons he did ever leave Newcastle, what other type of club would he consider signing for??? I was always confident for sure that Bruno Guimaraes wouldn’t be leaving BUT the idea he would leave Newcastle United for a club that couldn’t offer Champions League football, is beyond ludicrous.