Rival sporting director believes Alexander Isak will stay at Newcastle United because he's too good to go elsewhere

We often hear about players performing so well that they're going to create a scramble in the transfer market, but one unnamed Sporting Director believes the opposite has happened for Alexander Isak at Newcastle United.

There isn't a club in the world who wouldn't be improved by the arrival of Alexander Isak. Even Manchester City with Erling Haaland up front would be taken to another level if they had Isak partnering up with the Nordic Cyborg.

Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona have all been linked with moves for Isak in the transfer window, and while it can get disheartening to read constant reports of one of our best players leaving, it's also flattering that it's this calibre of club looking at our players.

However, Newcastle are determined to keep hold of Isak, and while there have been talks of a new contracted bandied around, Newcastle may already have a secret weapon.

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Alexander Isak has played his way out of a move

A report in iNews has said that at least one Premier League sporting director believes that Isak has played his way out of a move away from Newcastle. He's simply so good that no club could afford him.

"It is the opinion of at least one sporting director in the Premier League that Alexander Isak is so good he’s played himself out of contention for a move anytime soon.

"The theory goes that Isak is now such a rare commodity in the world game – a goalscorer in the number nine mould who blends technique with pace, power and an elite mentality – that Newcastle’s valuation will be so high no club could realistically match it."

Alexander Isak is priceless

You won't hear any arguments to the contrary from us or many other Newcastle fans. Isak is literally priceless right now. To let him go would absolutely derail the project and likely set us back years just to get us to where we are now.

In a world of PSR, the money we'd get from selling Isak would be very handy, but at the same time, to replace someone of that quality would likely cost even more than what we'd receive as that move would inflate the market.

We could rebuild the squad with that money, sure, but we'd always be missing that certain something upfront.