‘No individual is bigger than any football club’published at 13:51 British Summer Time
13:51 BST
Alan Shearer
Former England striker on The Rest is Football podcast
I thought Alexander Isak might have stayed for another season and then this would have happened next summer.
If he can’t be persuaded to stay then, if someone offers Newcastle what they want, then you’ve got to take that. Ultimately, you just say, ‘thank you very much for the great memories you’ve given us, off you go’.
I’m not angry at all towards him. I understand how football works, I know what happens in and around the game.
I probably understand his mentality. Do I like it? Do I understand it? Probably two different things.
If it really is impossible for Eddie to turn him around and he says no, and it sounds like that is the case, I want him to be out now.
You get your big money for him, whoever’s prepared to pay that, and you get other people in, hopefully beforehand, and then you move on.
No individual is bigger than any football club.