{"id":321806,"date":"2025-12-02T02:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321806\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:30:10","slug":"alexander-isak-slammed-as-appalling-as-alan-shearer-shrugs-off-newcastle-mess-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321806\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak slammed as &#8216;appalling&#8217; as Alan Shearer shrugs off Newcastle mess row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to know on Alexander Isak latest as Newcastle fans eye midweek joy<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_GettyImages-2236071480.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Alexander Isak Alexander Isak &#8216;doesn&#8217;t even smile when he scores&#8217; as World Cup winners weigh into debateAlexander Isak scored his first Premier League goal for Liverpool in their 2-0 win against West Ham United, breaking a 310-minute league goal drought.The Swedish striker moved to Liverpool from Newcastle United for a British record \u00a3125 million fee on transfer deadline day.Isak admitted his first Premier League goal for the Reds was a &#8220;long time coming&#8221; and acknowledged he is &#8220;still on the way&#8221; back to his best form after struggling with fitness.Former Newcastle captain Alan Shearer praised the goal, calling the half-volley finish &#8220;class&#8221; and a &#8220;fantastic finish&#8221; that provided the quality Liverpool needed.Shearer stated that his previous criticism of Isak&#8217;s contentious transfer away from Newcastle\u2014which he called a &#8220;messy situation&#8221;\u2014<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/shearer-isak-newcastle-united-liverpool-32974623\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">is now &#8220;gone.&#8221;<\/a>Shearer also suggested that for Liverpool to get the best out of Isak, they need to adapt their play style and deliver the ball into him earlier to complement his spontaneous approach.Despite scoring, World Cup winner and former Chelsea defender Frank Leboeuf heavily criticized Isak&#8217;s overall performance against West Ham, describing his display for the first hour as &#8220;appalling.&#8221;Leboeuf expressed sympathy for Liverpool teammate Hugo Ekitike, arguing that Ekitike\u2019s performances are superior despite having a lower price tag, and felt Isak&#8217;s substitution was &#8220;only fair to Ekitike.&#8221;Isak\u2019s teammate Alexis Mac Allister said: \u201cI am really happy for him. I think he&#8217;s an amazing player, we all know that. I was joking with him because he doesn&#8217;t even smile when he scores!&#8221;Liverpool legend <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/know-exactly-what-alexander-isak-32976558\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Aldridge believes<\/a> that after Erling Haaland, Isak is the most natural finisher in the Premier League &#8211; he just needs to believe in himselfNewcastle supporters, for one night only, will be Isak fans when Liverpool take on Sunderland on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"nechronicle\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/alexander-isak-shows-rare-self-32975176\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ FULL STORY: How Newcastle fans will be backing Isak this week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know on Alexander Isak latest as Newcastle fans eye midweek joyAlexander Isak Alexander Isak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[12033,64,63,596,19330,85],"class_list":["post-321806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-alexander-isak","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-newcastle-united-fc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}