· 19 August 2025, 21:46
**If ever you needed confirmation that Alexander Isak's time at Newcastle United was over, then you have it now via a post by the striker on social media.**
Alexander Isak has taken to social media tonight to explain his decision not to attend the PFA awards in Manchester despite being nominated for Players' Player of the Year.
The striker is in a standoff with Newcastle United over his future and didn't want to attend the event in light of all that is going on.
We absolutely understand his position on that, but the statement put out by Isak does nothing to repair the rift and has only served to turn fans even more against him.
> [](https://twitter.com/SkySports_Keith/status/1957892499990630504)
Alexander Isak has spat his dummy out over a broken promise
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The statement posted to [Isak's Instagram stories](https://www.instagram.com/stories/alex_isak/3702832874548900920/) blames everybody but himself for what's happening between him and the club.
> "I’m proud to be recognised by my fellow professionals with a place in the PFA Premier League Team of the Season for 2024/25."First and foremost I want to thank my teammates and everyone at Newcastle United who has supported me along the way."I’m not at the ceremony tonight. With everything going on, it didn’t feel right to be there."I’ve kept quiet for a long time while others have spoken. That silence has allowed people to push their own version of events, even though they know it doesn’t reflect what was really said and agreed behind closed doors."The reality is that promises were made and the club has known my position for a long time. To now act as if these issues are only emerging is misleading."When promises are broken and trust is lost, the relationship can’t continue. That’s where things are for me right now — and why change is in the best interests of everyone, not just myself.
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> "Alexander Isak"
Alexander Isak is getting bent out of shape about a verbal promise made by someone who isn't even at the club anymore
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We understand that promises were broken when Paul Mitchell refused to give Isak a pay rise at a time when the club had just scraped through PSR by the skin of its teeth. A broken promise is a broken promise.
However, that promise wasn't made by Paul Mitchell, or indeed anyone who was still at the club at that time. It was Amanda Staveley who had promised a new contract to Isak; therefore, that promise, which by all accounts was only a verbal agreement anyway, became null and void when Staveley left the club.
It had been made clear to Isak that talks would resume at the end of the last season, and even he seemed to confirm this at times. So he would have got his much-needed pay rise, because again, how one man is supposed to be able to survive on just £140,000-a-week is anybody's guess. Yes, he would likely have had to do without that extra £100k-a-week for 12 months by not being handed the pay rise last summer, but he knew the situation the club was in.
The final paragraph tells us that there is no way back for Isak at the club now. He's made it perfectly clear that he feels the relationship has broken down. It's therefore in everybody's best interest that he leaves the club ... for the money he's worth ... to a club outside of the Premier League. If he wants to be arsey about leaving, then the club should be arsey about where he's allowed to go and for how much. If there are no willing buyers, then it's a year on the sidelines for him then. Good luck getting your spot in Sweden's World Cup squad.
I'm so over his antics now. Alexander Isak is pure poison and the only reason I'd want him to stay at the club now is purely to piss him off.