'You honour that': John Beresford is stoking the fires to keep Alexander Isak rage alive at Newcastle United
At some point, Newcastle United fans, journalists and pundits will let go of all of the animosity that built up towards Alexander Isak now that a line has been drawn under the saga.
Today is seemingly not that day, with former Newcastle full-back John Beresford having his say on the matter in The Chronicle.
Due to the international break, Alexander Isak is yet to make his debut for Liverpool. The striker has only played 20 minutes of football this season, coming off the bench for Sweden this week.
His £125 million move was a transfer deadline day special and brought an end to a summer of suffering for him, us, and Liverpool.
John Beresford has put the boot in on Alexander Isak
The way Isak conducted himself over the summer shocked a lot of people and really angered anyone connected with Newcastle United, and now, John Beresford, who was part of Kevin Keegan's Entertainers, has voiced his thoughts.
"Isak signed a contract - call me a dinosaur, but you honour that, not go on strike, so this is very different.
"I understand where he was coming from after he discovered Liverpool were interested after they'd just won the league, it's the way he did it.
"Look at Marc Guehi at Crystal Palace he wanted to go but he honoured his contract, he could have kicked off like you'll never know.
"For me, though, this is not a good look for Isak, the way he has dealt with it, and he has to live with that now.
"He did not show the respect he should have to Newcastle. The position he found himself in was because of Newcastle United - they gave him the platform to impress.
"I was hoping that he may have been held back and told he could move AFTER this season. Give us one more season, let's compete and if your dream move is there still, you can go. That would have been my trade-off.
"You can't have a player sacking off training or refusing to play, it angered me. Unfortunately for Newcastle, what Isak did has worked."
We still say Isak was ten times worse than Wissa this summer
Obviously, we have to point out that Yoane Wissa did the same, and Newcastle United brought him in on deadline day too, so as much as we have all bitched about player power and how going on strike is such bad form, Isak and Wissa have proved that it works.
Hopefully, going forward, there'll be something done to prevent this from being a legitimate tactic for players to employ.
We still stand by our feelings that there were plenty of differences between Isak's situation and Wissa's that make Wissa less of a douche, but that could just be us inhaling copium to justify the celebrations we're going to have on Saturday when he scores his first goal for Newcastle United.
