Alexander Isak

[David Kelly 1830]

He's a quality player who will obviously come good for them but, I don't think their style is really set up to get the very best out of him.  Salah isn't Jacob Murphy who would always be looking to set him up.  Salah, whilst clearly someone who creates a lot as well as scoring, is someone who will always look to come inside and even when he's not looking for goal himself, he's going close down Isak's space.  I just don't see him scoring the amount of goals for them that he could have scored here.  I think Arsenal would have even been a better bet for him.

Happy to see him and belatedly them, struggle a bit because they have been the luckiest team on earth for most of this season.

[Craig 11902]

[Howmanheyman 43278]

16 minutes ago, Craig said:

 

Glory hunters, man.

[Monkeys Fist 50243]

3 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:

 

Glory hunters, man.

You talking about the fan or the player? 
 

or…

 

[Alex 41768]

33 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:

 

Glory hunters, man.

Supported Man City 12 months ago. 

[thebrokendoll 13866]

1 hour ago, Craig said:

 

here's hoping xhaka loses his head in an act of brutal newcastle/sunderland tribalism gone slightly awry and snaps the skinny swedish cunt in half on friday.

[MrBass 4144]

On 05/10/2025 at 10:42, Renton said:

 

And he hasn't really strengthened the defence. Just feels like he went on a splurge a 15 tear old kid would have done on football manager (if that's still a thing) and unbalanced the squad in the process. Isak adds fuck all to them. The annoying thing for me is if he had stayed settled at NUFC I reckon we might have had a crack at the league.

 

Which was most likely a factor in them buying him. Not necessarily to strengthen themselves (although they would have obviously welcomed that) but to seriously weaken us.

[Alex 41768]

45 minutes ago, MrBass said:

 

Which was most likely a factor in them buying him. Not necessarily to strengthen themselves (although they would have obviously welcomed that) but to seriously weaken us.

They definitely bought Etikite AND Isak to stop us progressing as it makes little sense to sign them both when they did. Given their other attacking options as well as their need to strengthen in other areas. 

[Holden McGroin 9708]

They are both very similar so it made little sense buying both. They lost Jota, Nunez and Diaz and replaced them with 2 players that cant play in the same 11.

[Tom 15443]

6 minutes ago, Alex said:

They definitely bought Etikite AND Isak to stop us progressing as it makes little sense to sign them both when they did. Given their other attacking options as well as their need to strengthen in other areas. 

Yeh 100%

 

If we kept Isak & improved we’d have to have been looked at as title contenders. Apart from the odd spell there were large parts of the season where ourselves & Liverpool were neck & neck in the form table.

[The Fish 12407]

In terms of the road not travelled, I think we still would have signed Thiaw, Ramsdale and maybe Ramseyt too, but would we have signed Woltemade? Wissa? 

 

Isak and Woltemade would have been a sight to see.

[Tom 15443]

Its hard to tell about Woltemade - I’m sure I read somewhere he was Eddie Howe’s target as opposed to the wider scouting team.

 

Ramsey definitely - I think that had been in the pipeline a while judging on Eddie’s PSR comments.

[Dr Gloom 26048]

I don’t think we sign big Nick if isak stays. The plan was to get Jao Pedro, Delap or ekitike in to replace Wilson and rotate with then eventually replace Isak. That all changed after Isak downed tools and we were forced to work down our list of targets. Big Nick was fairly low down that list - but he could prove to be a better signing than the likes of sesko. He’s started better. It’s going to take a while to get used to playing with a completely different type of striker but the early signs are positive. I love his confidences. He just needs to get in the box more. The signs were much better on that score against Forest. 

[trophyshy 8893]

Nick was our main target, all the rest were decoys.  

[The Fish 12407]

43 minutes ago, trophyshy said:

Nick was our main target, all the rest were decoys.  

[Craig 11902]

3 hours ago, MrBass said:

 

Which was most likely a factor in them buying him. Not necessarily to strengthen themselves (although they would have obviously welcomed that) but to seriously weaken us.

Pretty much what we did to Burnley when we bought Wood IMO.

[Craig 11902]

1 hour ago, Dr Gloom said:

I don’t think we sign big Nick if isak stays. The plan was to get Jao Pedro, Delap or ekitike in to replace Wilson and rotate with then eventually replace Isak. That all changed after Isak downed tools and we were forced to work down our list of targets. Big Nick was fairly low down that list - but he could prove to be a better signing than the likes of sesko. He’s started better. It’s going to take a while to get used to playing with a completely different type of striker but the early signs are positive. I love his confidences. He just needs to get in the box more. The signs were much better on that score against Forest. 

Not dissing Nick in any way, but has he started better, or is he part of a better squad that has integrated him better?

Sesko hasn't become dogshit overnight, he's surrounded by incompetence and a coach that doesn't know / want to know how to adapt.

[Andycap 26]

1 hour ago, Dr Gloom said:

I don’t think we sign big Nick if isak stays. The plan was to get Jao Pedro, Delap or ekitike in to replace Wilson and rotate with then eventually replace Isak. That all changed after Isak downed tools and we were forced to work down our list of targets. Big Nick was fairly low down that list - but he could prove to be a better signing than the likes of sesko. He’s started better. It’s going to take a while to get used to playing with a completely different type of striker but the early signs are positive. I love his confidences. He just needs to get in the box more. The signs were much better on that score against Forest. 

Was he low down on the list? Because wasn't it known that bayern wanted him so probably stopped us from thinking we could get him. 

[Gemmill 61749]

Just now, Andycap said:

Was he low down on the list? Because wasn't it known that bayern wanted him so probably stopped us from thinking we could get him. 

 

Aye from what I read/heard, we always liked him but we had assumed he was unavailable/was going to Bayern if he was going anywhere. 

 

I think was not on the list at all for those reasons. 

[Gemmill 61749]

The club took a risk tbf, cos it could just as easily have ended by bringing Bayern back to the table, and us looking like the bridesmaids again. 

 

Fortunately Stuttgart and us were very happy to do the deal completely on the sly.

 

[Andycap 26]

2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

The club took a risk tbf, cos it could just as easily have ended by bringing Bayern back to the table, and us looking like the bridesmaids again. 

 

Fortunately Stuttgart and us were very happy to do the deal completely on the sly.

 

They were fannying about bayern it seems. Wanting to only pay a fraction of stuttgarts valuation and thinking woltemade wouldn't be swayed to go elsewhere. So we got a call of them asking if we where interested. 

[The Fish 12407]

2 minutes ago, Andycap said:

They were fannying about bayern it seems. Wanting to only pay a fraction of stuttgarts valuation and thinking woltemade wouldn't be swayed to go elsewhere. So we got a call of them asking if we where interested. 

That's what I heard too. So it's fact. 

 

 

[thebrokendoll 13866]

believe nowt me till gemmill eavesdrops a craig hope phone call in lidls.

[Gemmill 61749]

A very wise man. 

[Christmas Tree 6540]

Don’t believe for one moment gemmill would be caught dead in Lidl. He’ll be that neighbour who has the Waitrose van pull up.