· 20 August 2025, 21:00
**Newcastle United issued a statement late on Tuesday night denying that anyone at the club had told Alexander Isak or any of his representatives that he could leave the club this summer if an acceptable bid came in.**
That statement was a response to Alexander Isak's statement, citing broken promises as a reason for his actions this summer.
Isak doesn't clarify what those promises were, but many have understood it to mean a gentleman's agreement in which he was told he could leave.
However, our understanding is more that it was to do with being handed a pay rise last summer, which was mentioned by Amanda Staveley, and then Paul Mitchell refused to act after she had left.
Simon Jordan urges Alexander Isak to name names
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Leaving it open-ended has caused pundits and journalists to draw their own conclusions, and while we're not sure there was an agreement about being able to leave, Simon Jordan has said on [TalkSPORT](https://talksport.com/football/3489955/simon-jordan-alexander-isak-statement-newcastle-transfer/) that there would be a clear way to clear everything up, and that's to name names.
> "What I would imagine is not clear and has never been said and it never will be named as to who it was said by."Because if you have the balls to turn around and say ‘I was told by’, name them."Name the person specifically and explicitly who told you that, irrespective of conditions, you can leave when it suits you, you can leave when another football club comes."He won’t do it, he can’t do it and I doubt that you’ll ever see the light of it and I hope that he can point his finger at somebody and make somebody accountable."Newcastle’s statement, and not just because I’m a former football club owner, is probably more likely to be the position as it is, which is ‘we’ll welcome him back’."I’d be fining the backside of him quite frankly but the idea that Newcastle have agreed something, these players are running around now whenever they don’t get what they want, turning around and saying, ‘well, I understood this, I was given a gentleman’s agreement for that, I was given assurance of that’."So in future, what you can do is no longer rely on a contract, you can write it down on a napkin and say ‘here’s what I think we’ll understand going forward’. They wouldn’t have that.
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> "They wouldn’t say, ‘oh my contract, my bonuses, my weekly salary, my goal bonus, my loyalty bonus, we’ll do it on understanding shall we?’ It’s nonsense."
Alexander Isak needs to get some new representation
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Simon Jordan doesn't believe that any such conversations even took place, which is why he won't or indeed can't name names when it comes to the promises he believes have been broken.
At the end of the day, the fact that nothing was written down is just amateurish on his part. A verbal contract is not worth the paper it's written on.
Alexander Isak needs to grow up and, for the sake of his career, get new representation.