Coincidently Matt Hardy at the Times wrote this piece regarding the very subject and Isak's value after he made Branthwaite look very average and questions the Everton defenders' alleged £80m price tag (what a joke!)

https://www.goodisonnews.com/2024/04...st-james-park/

“If Jarrad Branthwaite is valued at £80 million by would-be-suitors like Manchester United, then what price does that make Alexander Isak worth?

“And if Newcastle have to sell Isak to progress, then what on earth is the point of being a club in the Premier League with ambition? If that is the case, the fight to stop the Super League was futile, because it’s already here. Clubs like Newcastle and Aston Villa will never be given a chance.

“Isak is 24 and getting better and better. It was his movement that forced an error from Branthwaite as he skipped past the Everton defender to score his 19th goal of the season in Newcastle’s 1-1 draw on Tuesday night.”

Haaland, M'Bappe & Isak put up similar numbers in terms of Goals to games. Both Haaland and M'Bappe have the smoke of a thousand bonfires blown up their a$$es. Prices around the $150-200million are regularly place on the heads of those two.

Yet when it comes to Isak, the same hacks report that Arsenal can just walk in and he'll of course jump ship to join them and NUFC will gratefully accept a staged payment of £80m over 5 yrs as we wipe our dirty coal dust covered hands to seal the deal with the cosmopolitan gent from the elite north London club.

The cultural, classist connotation of arrogance are deeply insulting to the hard working Geordies and other so called 'lesser clubs' all these condescending media hacks offend in their desperate clambering to placate the egos of the fraud 6 clubs & fan bases.

As the Saudi PiF financial machinery goes through the gears with NUFC and they begin to invest in the wider North East region these shame shills will come running, with their sycophantic platitudes desperate to scoff some of the table scraps dropped from the table.

It's good to see some Journos still have a bit of integrity. I don't know much about Matt Hardy's work but I appreciate his candor in this piece.