Benjamin Sesko is going to Manchester United. Newcastle are so toast, unbelievable managerial incompetence.
If you believe this is going to make Isak want to stay, think again.
A governance structure so compromised by informal power dynamics that it can’t even be critiqued using professional models — because it never entered the realm of the professional in the first place.
If this is "almost" dysfunctional, I don't know what completely, absolutely dysfunctional looks like.
The problem with NUFC's structural implosion is that the mess spills over to the rest of the Premier League, making things hard for players and for other clubs to take NUFC seriously, and to deal fairly. It ruins NUFC's credibility, it detracts from NUFC's ability to conduct business reliably, and it spoils the fun for football fans.
Your nephew and your boss stepping in to help recruit someone, anyone for you? This is worse than a Jorg Schmadtke situation, so amateur it hurts.
This is why you should never have an irrational monarchy controlling your football club. You can never sack them.
If Newcastle fail to sign Sesko as a replacement for Isak (after failing to sign any other strikers, including Ekitike) and Isak still wants to come to Liverpool, there will be no one else left to blame and the only question remaining will be how could possibly NUFC set up themselves for such a horrific, no good, abominable way of doing business and atrocious transfer window.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/aug/05/manchester-united-newcastle-benjamin-sesko-bids
Based on the Scout data, who are the most suitable strikers as partners for Ekitike in terms of complementary skills?
Using the same data by Scouted, we can easily see the motives behind the transfer window moves from various clubs, including Liverpool, but also some of our direct rivals, Newcastle, MUFC, and Arsenal.
This is why I think that Ekitike, because of his age, has always been characterised by Liverpool primarily as a young and advanced understudy with plenty of upside potential who's on the brink of a breakthrough season some time in the near future. Also the reason why Isak, or another complementary striker two years Hugo's senior can make sense, to deliver today while waiting for Hugo to develop further.
https://scoutedftbl.com/profiling-strikers-isak-ekitike-attributes-archetypes/
And this is why Liverpool are willing to overlook that Isak will turn 26 next month. Also the reason Isak doesn't have a year to wait for NUFC to get their business together.
This is why I think that Ekitike, because of his age, has always been characterised by Liverpool primarily as a young and advanced understudy with plenty of upside potential who's on the brink of a breakthrough season some time in the near future. Also the reason why Isak, or another complementary striker two years Hugo's senior can make sense, to deliver today while waiting for Hugo to develop further.
https://scoutedftbl.com/profiling-strikers-isak-ekitike-attributes-archetypes/
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Alan Shearer being roasted by his co-hosts, and presumably friends, Gary Lineker and Micah Richards.
https://youtu.be/Ov_MRP1PvGM?feature=shared&t=206
We need to lend them Richard Hughes so they can get some business done and we all can move on for good.
NUFC can't recruit a sleeping turtle if they wanted, they have now stalled business for weeks, damaged their relationship with their star player who didn't get an improved contract offer from NUFC, and he doesn't even want to train with their squad. They're still playing hardball rejecting £120m, whilst their PSR situation is still precarious, and on top of that they still need to fill at least four or five positions before matchday 1.
Irrational, mismanagement supreme.
@mlawton
The tragedy isn’t that NUFC fans dream, it’s that their dreams are being financed by a murderous regime. And Shearer, one of their most prominent figures ever, is selling those dreams like they’re handmade. They’re not.
Every penny NUFC trade is sustained with another journalist that the Saudi monarchs kill, with another persecuted gay person, with another woman made slave, with another political opponent brutally decapitated. Disgusting.
1. The PIF needs to be reigned in. Murderous nation states controlling professional football for sportswashing are cancer.
2. Alexander Isak is PIF property, and Alexander Isak is on wage slavery. Wage slavery is not slavery depending on the magnitude of the fee. It's not the magnitude of the wage which determines agency.
3. Never mind. Liverpool are going to win either the Premier League or the Champions League, and will try to win both.
Kun Agüero: flat Earth theorist.
Sergio Agüero has been advancing anti-scientific ideas, trying to explain how an airplane can't possibly trace a curved path above the surface of our planet. In his view, a straight path driving that theoretical airplane to escape Earth's gravity pull is more likely, and regarding the curved path needed to travel in Earth's atmosphere: "That's strange", he said.
Somebody give him a job in world football, where he can contribute something, please?
@vruz Absolutely, yes! When Wilson started out, he was BY FAR the most insightful pundit working in England. But I think (A) the Guardian have pushed him to dumb down; and (B) he's writing to a schedule where he's doing to many pieces and doesn't have the time to dive deep like he used to.
@mike Interestingly, and coincidentally roughly on the same topic as Jonathan Wilson's piece for The Guardian, Matt Frohlich at FourFourTwo seems to see things radically different, and with a better, more articulate formulation to back him.