Poll results: How the NUFC Feed readers are feeling about Alexander Isak amid exit rumours - You guys are fierce
Alexander Isak looks to be trying to push a move away from Newcastle United, with Liverpool his reported preferred destination.
Sometimes, as football fans, we expect our players to fall in love with our club with the same ferocity and passion as we do, and when a player starts looking for that next career move, especially a player so universally loved, it can hurt.
A player's career is short, and if they are ambitious with the skill to back it up, it's only natural that they are going to want to play at the absolute top of the sport.
Of course, you get rare cases such as Alan Shearer, who turned down the opportunity to fill several trophy cabinets playing for Manchester United, instead opting to play for his boyhood club until he retired, but the big difference there is that Shearer had always supported Newcastle. Most players don't support the club they play for, and moving for them doesn't have the same emotional impact.
Newcastle fans' message is clear: If you don't want to be here, eff off!
Fans, on some level, do understand this, but it still hurts when you're faced with the prospect of losing one of your top players. It hurts even more when they're eyeing a move to a rival, and it's safe to say that, based on our poll results, our fans have not taken things with Alexander Isak well.
We asked our readers what we should do with Alexander Isak, giving them three options, and as you can see from the image above, there was an overwhelming winner:
Let him go, he's a mercenary: 567
Fight like hell to keep him: 172
Honestly, I don't care, I just want it resolved: 279
Don't upset the Toon Army!
That's a pretty clear message from the NUFC Feed readers. Emotions were clearly running high during that poll, with an overwhelming majority thinking it's time to just let him go if he's not 100% committed to Newcastle, and if we're being honest, we absolutely get it.
We were shocked that the minority opted to keep him, and so many were on the fence. It shows how quickly our fanbase can turn, I suppose.
But, as we've said, if he's not 100% committed to Newcastle United, then why are we fighting so hard to keep him? Although we do get it as if we're looking like we've given up, that hands the power to Liverpool in the negotiations.
We were surprised by these poll results, but at the same time, we totally get it. Bitterness is powerful.
