This is simply embarrassing from Jose Enrique on Newcastle United star


 
 
 
 
 
 

Jose Enrique has been speaking about Newcastle United.

More specifically, the Liverpool fan commenting on Alexander Isak.

A total embarrassment what he has came out with…

Jose Enrique speaking to Grosvenor Sport about Alexander Isak – 10 April 2024:

“The problem with Alexander Isak – and we’ve said this about him even when he was at Real Sociedad – is that he’s always injured.

“The way Newcastle want to play is with high intensity and pressing from the front and you can’t be expected to fulfil that if you’re getting three or four injuries every year.

“If someone comes along and offers them the £70m that they spent to sign him in the first place then they need to think about it.

“I think Isak is that good that he can play for Liverpool or Manchester United… but it’s a question of availability too.

“He’s too injury prone, to the extent that if someone came with a lot of money this summer which gave Newcastle the opportunity to sign someone slightly worse but consistently fit, they’d have to consider that option.”

Alexander Isak was ‘always injured’ at Real Sociedad.

Really?

The striker played in 105 of 116 La Liga matches when at Real Sociedad.

Isak was actually named in 111 of the 116 La Liga matchday squads for the club and one of those five matchday squads he missed was was due to suspension. So we are talking about at the most 3%, only four, of the 116 league matchday squads Alexander Isak was unavailable for due to injury.

As for Newcastle United, Alexander Isak this 2023/24 season has been named in 34 of the 44 matchday squads and he has scored 19 goals in 32 appearances.

Last season, despite picking up a quite serious injury early on, Isak actually played in 27 of the 41 possible matches in the 2022/23 season.

In the Premier League since he arrived, Alexander Isak has scored a goal every 128 minutes.

Why would you sell your star striker who every other Premier League club would love to have? Especially selling him for only what Newcastle United paid for him, despite having shown he is an outstanding Premier League level striker since arriving?? (***Also, Alexander Isak didn’t cost Newcastle £70m, it was £59m plus another £4m in potential future add-ons).

Absolute nonsense that Jose Enrique has came out with here, clearly he is from the Paul Merson school of research!