Alexander Isak loves ‘special’ thing about Newcastle fans – Liverpool fans 100% don’t have it

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Alexander Isak is currently public enemy No.1 in Newcastle as he pushes to join Liverpool.

The man born in Solna has gone on strike at Newcastle as he aims to join the Premier League champions, who have already seen a bid worth £110m rejected.

Alexander Isak claimed “promises are broken and trust is lost” in an official statement on Tuesday night, but it was not always this way between the Swede and Newcastle – who have something he likes that Liverpool lack.

Alexander Isak loves one-club footballing cities, which Liverpool cannot offer

Speaking to Alan Shearer back in February for BBC Sport, the Sweden international shared that he likes living in cities where everybody roots for one football club such as Newcastle.

Should a move to Anfield materialise for Isak, he would no longer be able to enjoy this, as Everton share Merseyside with Liverpool.

The Newcastle No.14 said: “I’ve been here two-and-a-half years now, almost three in the summer. How have I found it? The people are great. I love being in cities where everyone is all about their football team, where there’s one team that everyone supports.

“I think that’s what makes it special. I’ve got a great relationship with the fans here in Newcastle.”

Isak can no longer boast this “great relationship” with the Toon Army, and if he does get his move to Liverpool, there is no way he can afford to repeat this behaviour.

Liverpool fans even lambasted Trent Alexander-Arnold, one of their own, for leaving on a free transfer to Real Madrid earlier this summer, so you can only imagine what supporters would say about Isak if he repeated these antics at Anfield.

Alexander Isak could genuinely become the new Michael Owen

It takes a lot for a footballer to infuriate numerous fanbases throughout a career, but that is exactly what Michael Owen did – and Isak, who angered Newcastle further with his public statement, must learn from it.

Owen was famously booed on his return to Newcastle following comments made in his book – titled ‘Reboot: My Life, My Time’ – in which he admitted he saw a move to Tyneside as a “downward step” before criticising the Magpies further.

He wrote: “From a career perspective, there was no doubt in my mind that a move to the North East was a downward step.

“As unpalatable as that opinion might be to Newcastle fans, that’s more or less what I felt… This kind of blind delusion (feeling a club is bigger than it actually is) is especially true of Newcastle United – which, as I reach for the nearest tin hat, is only a big club in the sense that it has a lot of fans and a big stadium.”

Owen then later stained his association with Liverpool too by joining bitter rivals Manchester United in 2009, somehow ending his illustrious career not being truly adored by any of his five clubs.

Unless Isak learns from this current saga, he too is at risk of eventually ending his career as an unpopular figure.