Would be starting him and Gordon sooner rather than later given our dire goal returns. Something has to be shaken up. And I like Wilson, but after the WC he's not seemed too bothered.
Newcastle United sign Alexander Isak from Real Sociedad for €70m rising to €75m
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feck me was he actually €70m?
He was exciting at the start of the season and I wouldn't have minded if we'd gone for him in the summer. He was doing very well in Spain too.
He looks really, really good. Complete package.
Great player. I remember him being unbelievable at Anfield earlier in the season.
His play for their first goal was absolute class. In the first half he also made a chance purely with his impeccable touch and then putting ASM through. Imagine if we'd spent £70m on him rather than Antony last summer?
Premier League suits him to a tee.
Indeed. Funny thing is I said an some past thread about three or four years ago that united should buy him as a prospect. One of the few times I've been right, he would have been better than W.W up top.
This guy is the real deal. Absolutely ice cold.
I just realised he has a .86 goals per 90 min stat. Prety decent.
Two more goals today. He seems to like PL.
Very impressive. I had my doubts but he’s taken to the league like a duck to water.
And Isak missed the first half of the season through injury………..the kids a baller and will get better and better.
All round top striker with high energy and pace. Would do wonders here.
Was a gamble for them but he's definitely paid off. Looks class.
He is a very good reason why Newcastle won't be trying to grab Kane on astronomical wages any time soon.
I actually think he'd be the perfect CF for Arsenal instead of Jesus. Great hold up play, can keep up with Saka and Martinelli, much better in the air and extra clinical.
Arsenal missed one here.
Only 23? He'll be their best number 9 since Shearer no doubt. Sky's the limit.
Put some respect on the Andy Carroll name.
Was he? His first two seasons at Real Sociedad were very good. Goals dried up last year but you look at his general profile and he was ideal for any top half prem side to get looking to break into europe.
I mean it was a big price and yeah last season his stats were that of a decent but nothing special attacker. Was a risk in terms of how he'd adapt to the prem and wasn't generally sure if he'd handle the lone striker role but he's done it very well
It's still not a risk when the club is backed by an infinite pool of oil money. No transfer that City or Newcastle make can be seen as risky in the way that it is for us, Liverpool or Arsenal.
We signed Sancho for £70m and he was under immediate pressure to perform in a disfunctional team, Grealish is signed for £100 and had identical goal and assist contributions to Sancho in his first season but was under no pressure because City won the league anyway thanks to the billions they've invested in their squad and infrastructure over the years. Grealish is now bring praised like he's some big revelation and Pep is getting the credit for getting the best from this £100m player.
This isn't Mike Ashley's Newcastle signing a £63m player, this is a state investing a tiny fraction of their wealth in a vanity project that will inevitably succeed one way or another even if their next 5 signings were absolute duds signed for £50m each.
Going by the hype seems we should have gone for him. Bit odd as we needed a CF last summer too. Or does he have some obvious weaknesses?
Not to mention the Andy Cole name.
For a United striker he's under 30, so it becomes a major weakness.....
Don't agree with this at all, we still have to operate within FFP, so busting £65m on any player is a huge risk while we don't have the sponsorship deals to cover it.
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He was 75million. That seems like a big one to me given our ownership who spent 0mil on Weghorst, Eriksen and Sabitzer
Let's not pretend they won't fecking cheat the system like every other sugar daddy club in existence. Every rule they break has a dollar value that is all. Even going back to City breaking the doping rules all they got was a 50k fine.
He's obviously a player us and a lot of other teams in need of a striker were monitoring.
If he'd waited until this summer he'd probably have ended up at a bigger club than Newcastle. They were clever to jump in and put down huge money like they did. Plus, they can afford to take risks like that.
He was €63 million which at the time was £58 million, not sure where you get 75 million from.
Here in Spain the figure of €70M+5M was given. Transfermarkt also gives that same figure.
So good technically, that run for the assist for Murphy's goal today. Just dribbled past Everton players as if they were training dummies.
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Absolutely ridiculous dribble
And the defending is even more ridiculous.
Gutted he went there. Think injuries will be the only thing stopping him being a massive success.
He's a top player. The striker that most interested me before last summer from those we were linked with. Hope we find similar ourselves.
Isak...Weghorst...Isak....Weghorst....
But of course we'd end up with Weghorst.
But of course we'd end up with Weghorst.
One a £3m loan fee signed in January.Isak...Weghorst...Isak....Weghorst....
But of course we'd end up with Weghorst.
The other a £70m signing signed last summer.
Jesus Christ the state of that Everton defence.