BBC Summary of Newcastle Summer Window: Isaac makes them exhausted, but financial flexibility

Hupu September 2nd BBC wrote a long article to summarize Newcastle's gains in this transfer window.

"Persist until the last minute"

Before this exhausting transfer window was finally closed, this sentence was already the code of action of the team behind Newcastle United.

Moreover, their persistence is not without reason.

Everyone expected that the end of the transfer window would be so nervous that it was breathless, and it was true - Newcastle sold Alexander Isaac to Liverpool for a record of £125 million in British players' transfer fee, and signed Yoan Visa from Brentford for £55 million.

Fans in the Tyneside area finally breathed a sigh of relief: the team signed Visa, the forward who proved himself in the Premier League, can share the pressure for the team's historical champion Nick Walter Mad - you should know that Walter Mad has never played for a club outside Germany before.

But on the other hand, after persisting for so long, Newcastle sold one of the world's top strikers to the defending league champion on the transfer deadline.

This seems unimaginable to the outside world - after all, in the last round of last season, after Newcastle secured the Champions League qualification, St. James Park Stadium played the Champions League theme song, and Isaac was still celebrating and cheering in the crowd.

But this summer is a unique special period in the history of the club.

Isaac farce: A microcosm of exhausted transfer window

Of course, selling Isaac is never a team's plan.

Newcastle's goal is to one day compete with Liverpool for the highest honor, rather than selling the core players to a team they had beaten in the Carabao Cup final this March.

Last month, when Liverpool's initial £110 million offer was rejected and the transfer farce dragged on for several weeks, Newcastle even said in a statement that they believed Isaac's transfer conditions were "impossible".

Compromise on the transfer deadline may set a bad precedent - after all, Isaac's contract is still three years away. But the situation at that time was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain.

Isaac's willingness to leave the team has long cast a shadow on the club. If this Swedish striker who was determined to leave failed to leave the team at the last moment of the transfer window, can he still reintegrate into the team successfully? If he could only sit on the bench, would his net worth shrink further?

The answer seems to be no. Isaac, 25, missed the early weeks of the season and issued a fiercely worded statement saying "change is the best for everyone", making the rift between him and his fan base difficult to bridge.

Just last week, Newcastle fan Ian Cusbertson said bluntly that he would never accept him again, while Mar Koletch said that "the whole thing makes people feel uncomfortable."

Another fan, Susanna Armstrong, believes that "no one is irreplaceable."

But Debra Woodall's opinion is different - she wore a commemorative home jersey designed to commemorate Isaac's helping Newcastle end the 70-year domestic championship drought. She admitted, "It's hard to replace Isaac."

"Hopefully the team can find someone who can score goals," she said.

And Visa is such a candidate - in the Premier League last season, his non-penalty goals (19) were the best in the league. At the same time, the club also believes that Walter Mad's ability will shine in the top league sooner or later.

Newcastle's interest in Visa is no longer a secret, and Brentford has rejected their offer twice before. In contrast, Waltermad's transfer was kept secret throughout, and last week even sources directly involved in the deal denied the existence of the deal.

They said that after Bayern Munich's previous purchase failed, Stuttgart was unwilling to sell Walter Mad "regardless of the buyer."

The actual situation at that time was: the team had already booked a flight ticket and was preparing to fly from Stuttgart to Tyneside for a physical examination.

Unlike the pursuit of high-profile signings such as Hugo Ekitic, Benjamin Sheshko and Joao Pedro, Newcastle's action was quick and secret, and the details were finally leaked until the transaction was basically finalized.

From an outside perspective, the transfer of £69 million was caught off guard, and those involved even described the process as "very swift". But for head coach Eddie Howe, this is the result of waiting for a long time after encountering a series of setbacks in the process of finding a center.

"For you, this seems to be fast, but not for us." Hao said, "This process is slow and laborious because you have to be controlled by others."

's words are not appropriate to describe the entire transfer window.

Eddie Howe once called last summer the "hardest time" of his career, when Newcastle not only struggled to sign important players, but also had to rush to sell Elliott Anderson and Yankuba Mintch to avoid violating the Premier League Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR).

But what is more telling is that Howe later said that compared to the past few months, the difficult transfer window last year was "like a piece of cake."

aimed at players who were "urgently eager to join"

Newcastle originally planned to complete the transfer operation as soon as possible.

But in the end, the players they like but failed to sign were more than enough to get a five-a-side team.

For example, James Trafford was "extremely excited" about joining Newcastle, but the deal ended up failing due to the deadlock in negotiations with Burnley on transfer fees.

Then, Manchester City activated the buyback clause and matched Newcastle's offer to the former Manchester City goalkeeper, and Trafford finally chose to return to the Etihad Stadium.

Similar plots continue to take place.

"From the Premier League PSR rules, Newcastle is already out of danger, but Isaac's transfer will undoubtedly help them better meet UEFA's team cost rules - because when calculating the 'save 70% of income', player transfer income will be taken into consideration," Maguire said. "This will provide the team with plenty of room for reinvestment."

"This gives them financial flexibility that they didn't have 12 months ago - when they were almost unable to make a difference in two consecutive transfer windows. No one wants history to repeat, especially for an ambitious club." The Isaac era ended, and a new chapter in Newcastle began.