Newcastle United Spits Alexander Isak has returned to the club's training field, after missing the campaign for the club's season and returned to Spain to train
With less than fourteen days to go until the start of the Premier League season, the future of Alexander Isak is far from certain. However, he is back in Newcastle for the time being, and that is a start.
The Swedish striker ended the recent Newcastle preservations of Newcastle with a small injury. He would also really like to get a step away from Tyneside – Ideally to Premier League champions Liverpool.
Isak went back to Spain to train with the former club Real Sociedad, nominal to make his way back to full fitness. While he was gone, Liverpool made their first bid and Newcastle decided that it was not enough to convince them to cash in.
He was seen on the training field of the Magpies prior to what could be a number of uncomfortable conversations about his future. If things don't go to plan, the nuclear option can hold back in strike – but that is not a accurate thing.
Over the years, other players have become strike with mixed results. Here Mirror Football looks at how some of those other players went together.
George Best
If you thought this was a new phenomenon, you would be wrong. In 1974, Manchester United – legend George Best was dropped by the boss Tommy Docherty – reportedly after the manager had dropped him for going on a three -day Bender.
The best made it clear that he was done with United, and it turned out that he was done with the English top flight. His career took place in the lower competitions – through spells in the United States and South Africa – but he never played in the old first division again.
Diego Costa
Costa has twice fired Chelsea to the Premier League Glory, first under Jose Mourinho and then under Antonio Conte. However, it did not go so well in his second season under the Italian boss.
Conte announced Costa per text that he would not be part of the plans of the blues in the 2017-18 season, so the striker went to Brazil while his teammates returned for training for the season. He eventually got the exit he wanted, in which he recovered at Atletico Madrid, but only in January 2018.
Clint Dempsey
Dempsey refused to play for Fulham against Norwich at the start of the Premier League season 2012-13 in the midst of Liverpool reports. “In the beginning we didn't want to lose him, later we had to change our position. But our opinion is that we don't let Clint Dempsey go cheaply,” said Martin Jol manager.
Fulham allowed the American to join in spurs, not Liverpool, at £ 6 million. We leave it to you to decide what “cheap” meant in 2012, but it is worth mentioning that Dempsey would later return to Fulham on loan – albeit when Jol was no longer in charge.
Julien Faubert
Julien Faubert was desperate to leave Bordeaux in the summer of 2007, with Rangers and West Ham both sharp. In the end it was the Premier League club that won the race, and in French International would later argue his business.
“Sometimes you have to take extreme measures. I used that to show my accident,” he said RMC. “It was no lack of respect towards the club. I will never release myself from Bordeaux, because they are a club that was very useful for me in my career, which made me progress and allowed me to become an international.”
Pierre van Hooijdonk
The Dutch striker of Hooijdonk fired Nottingham Forest on promotion before playing in the Dutch side who reached the semi -final of the World Cup in 1998. However, when he returned, he did not see his future in the city area.
After asked for a transfer, but not in securing a move, he went back home to train with former club NAC Breda (sounds known?). He finally returned to the forest's line-up, but left in the summer of 1999 after a relegation.
A number of other movements would follow, including two stints with Feyenoord. He even had time for a second official spell in Breda, apart from that short trip in 1998.
Riyad Mahrez
In the summer of 2017, Algerian winger Mahrez told Leicester that he wanted to leave the club. He did the same in the following January, after he had not sealed a summer output and had stayed away from Foxes training.
“I was gone here because I needed some time to think,” he said after his return to the action of the first team. “You will always regret, but at that moment I thought it was best to do.”
Mahrez eventually got his move in July 2018. He would eventually spend five years with Manchester City before he left for Al Ahli, where he still plays.
Matheus Nunes
Speaking of players of Manchester City, Nunes ensured that his move to the Etihad Stadium in 2023 would flourish. And his decision to go on strike was not exactly well received.
“I was disappointed about how it ended, it was not necessary that Matheus' attitude took, but we ended with a good resolution for everyone,” said Wolves Transfer Matt Hobbs. “Matheus is a huge talented player, but would admit that he did not hit the heights he expected last season, but it was a difficult season for the team, so maybe he was not allowed to do that.”
Nunes has found things difficult in his two seasons with the city. However, he scored a crucial late winner against Aston Villa in the previous term to help his team qualify for the Champions League.
Paul Scholes
Scholes has a legendary status at Manchester United, but that was not always a guarantee. In 2001, the graduate Academy was omitted for a competition match and responded by refusing to play Arsenal in the League Cup.
“Yes, that was a stupid thing to do, I know that now,” Scholes said ten years later. “The moment you think it's good – you are young and you are not as experienced as you should have been.
Fortunately for the midfielder, he did not regret it too long. Less than two years later, he celebrated a different league title with United – after he had scored a career -best 14 league goals on the way.
Sebastien Squillaci
Of course, Squillaci may not be the player you first think about when discussing strike candidates, but football is full of surprises. Not only did he refuse to play for Seville in the midst of Arsenal's interest, but he also did this after he was mentioned in Antio Alvarez's XI for a match against Braga in the Champions League qualifications.
“I knew that if I played against Braga, I couldn't have played for Arsenal in the Champions League,” Squillaci said. He only played eight Champions League matches for Arsenal, and only 39 in total – you can't help but wonder if he still thinks it was worth it.
Carlos Tevez
Early in the 2011-12 season. Tevez refused to come from the bank for Manchester City. The club took disciplinary measures and he was out of the picture for months, although he would later claim that he was not going to be an effective strike – claim that it was all a misunderstanding.
After six months removed from the team, Tevez returned to action in March and later scored big goals to help the city win the title. That was enough for almost everyone to place the entire affair behind them.