Newcastle United are taking their moment to reignite the summer-long feud with Liverpool and Alexander Isak.
Newcastle United supporters could not resist a cheeky swipe at Alexander Isak after he was left out of Liverpool’s matchday squad.
FPL managers across the country - Tyneside aside - will be cursing Arne Slot after seeing the team sheet against Burnley. Isak is absent - a familiar story given his antics in recent months.
It is well documented that the Swede downed tools all summer to force his Newcastle exit. Isak bailed on the club’s pre-season tour - training at former club Real Sociedad - before refusing to play in the first three Premier League games of the campaign.
Newcastle United supporters taunt Alexander Isak
His only minutes since May came off the bench in Sweden’s 2-0 defeat to Kosovo last week. Newcastle fans were keen to poke fun at the situation on social media - jokingly claiming he is already pushing for a Merseyside exit.
Alexander “Best in the world” Isak doesn’t make the bench meanwhile Nicholas “Waste of money” Woltemade starts and scores the winner. Interesting.
— EnGee (@_EnGee) September 14, 2025
Isak's phantom groin bothering him again?
— marty lawrance (@marty_lawrance) September 14, 2025
Arne Slot on Alexander Isak fitness
Slot hinted at Isak being nowhere near match-fit at his pre-game press conference. He told reporters: “First of all I think the Swedish manager, Jon Dahl Tomasson, deserves a big, big, big compliment because he gets one of the best, maybe the best striker in the world in and needs to play two very important games for his country, but understands if he would play him twice for 90 minutes the player would have probably been injured for multiple weeks.
“That is not always easy for a manager, that he takes care of the interest of the player, so he deserves a big compliment for that and we will treat Alex the same as they did. Don’t expect him to play every single game 90 minutes on the pitch - that’s definitely not going to happen in the upcoming weeks.”
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‘We signed him for six years’ - Arne Slot
“He missed a proper pre-season, I think he missed three or four months of team sessions, so now we have to build him up gradually with us playing so many games and (having) very little training time.
“So, that’s going to be a challenge but we’ve signed him not only for the upcoming two weeks, we’ve signed him for six years so this is what we have to keep in mind and what the fans have to keep in mind if they see that I take him off at a certain moment or I only bring him in for a small amount of minutes. That’s all for the long-term fitness of the player.”
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