Funny kind of disaster at Newcastle United | OneFootball

To listen to certain Newcastle United fans, we are apparently talking disaster.

What has happened since the 2024/25 season ended.

In particular of course, you know who.

Alexander Isak dominating this summer 2025 transfer window and not just for Newcastle United fans and their club.

The media has been relentless, the coverage getting ever worse and more prolific, as each day went by.

Of course this Alexander Isak episode has been a mess, a massive headache, but a disaster???

The Alexander Isak Newcastle United story…

Bought from Real Sociedad for a total of £63m in August 2022.

Started 88 Premier League games, scoring 58 goals.

A key figure in Newcastle United qualifying twice in three years for the Champions League.

Helped United reach two cup finals in three seasons and scored the winning goal as NUFC won their first trophy in 56 years.

Newcastle banking £130m when sold in September 2025 for a new record fee ever paid by a Premier League club.

Disaster???

If this is a Newcastle United disaster story, give me more!

Nobody denies that this has been a massive headache but when you strip it all down, surely a couple of paracetamol will see you able to then see clearly, past that headache we have collectively experienced.

Bottom line is that Eddie Howe brilliantly identified Alexander Isak three years ago as a credible signing, one who would smash our own NUFC record on a player. Even though the previous season Isak had only scored six La Liga goals in 2021/22.

I have seen countless disasters in my time supporting Newcastle United and safe to say, this is no disaster at all.

It has created a lot of hassle for Eddie Howe to deal with and for the fans to endure from a distance, the way Alexander Isak has behaved didn’t help this start to the season at all.

However, balance this all out, get a wider perspective. Reality is that the Alexander Isak impact on Newcastle United overall, over the course of three years, hasn’t been a disaster at all, it has been an unbelievable success story.

Huge success on the pitch during his time here and a huge profit when selling him, by far the biggest profit on a player Newcastle United have ever delivered.

Cash and PSR

In the modern day, buying and selling players is a little different when it comes to whether you can ‘afford’ to buy them.

As in the past, you still have to have the actual cash to pay for a signing. So when you agree to buy a player, you agree to pay the money at a certain time (or times, via instalments), then you have to pay that money to the other club on the day(s) specified.

So when it comes to cash, we can say that roughly, the money received from the Alexander Isak deal will cover what Newcastle United have to pay for both Nick Woltemade AND Yoane Wissa.

I am going to do a follow up article very soon, going into more detail on the PSR and Amortisation side of things, especially regarding these Isak, Woltemade and Wissa deals.

However, just for now, when it comes to the whole PSR (and Amortisation) side of things, the huge Alexander Isak transfer fee and his book value (will explain further in that follow up article) at the time Newcastle United have sold him, means that this now gives NUFC massive extra scope in their new PSR position.

The Alexander Isak benefits will continue to flow for Newcastle United far beyond this transfer window just ended.