Sweden national team manager Jon Dahl Tomasson launched an impassioned defence of Alexander Isak and insisted that the “bigger picture” of the increasingly political transfer saga between Newcastle United and Liverpool remains unknown.
The prolific forward was predictably left out of Eddie Howe’s squad for Saturday’s Premier League opener Aston Villa. At the end of a goalless stalemate at Villa Park, a large portion of Newcastle’s fans belted out an expletive chant to express the dim view taken of their supposedly “greedy” striker.
