More one sided analysis from the North East. Isak’s statement was an attempt to correct the endless briefings from the club that have sought to vilify him and his agent. Why on earth shouldn’t he seek to tell his side of the story ? NUFC have briefed that he has never indicated a desire to leave & haven’t admitted they reneged on a contract offer. The player says otherwise. Why is there a broad assumption that the club are the noble truth tellers here ? That Isak is the greedy liar ? Only one party has publicly sought to dominate the media narrative with its perspective. There has been next to zero consideration of the possibility that player may, just may, have been mistreated. Isak, no doubt, felt he needed to publicly end his pretty dignified silence, and speak out on a night when all eyes were on players scheduled to be present at the PFA awards. He clearly wanted it to be appreciated that it was not his fellow professionals that he was seeking to avoid but the glare of a media broadly committed to portray him as the worst of his kind. Newcastle viewing the statement as inflammatory, as they have briefed all, is mock outrage. They were set on thwarting the player regardless with their ‘conditions’ that were always pretty much destined not to be met, given their lack of competence and clarity in the transfer market and machismo in setting ever more unrealistic transfer fees.