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Daily Newcastle: mac n Nic Pickamix
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Iain hosts Nicola to get her take on Alex Izak's statement, Newcastle's response and where that leaves the club on September 2 heading into the Champions League campaign
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Transcript
Introduction and Reconnecting
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I knew you'd be surprised by that. It's fantastic, isn't it?
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
Is that the new one?
00:00:20
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That is the new one. And do you know what? It's so short that we're encouraged to play it more than once.
00:00:26
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Oh, right, okay.
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And it must be one of our listeners that we've got in to do the voiceover for that with their lovely American accents.
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
ye
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Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's all for you transatlantic listeners. That's just for you. My name is Ian Mackay. Welcome to the Daily Newcastle, part of and proud to be part of the GSPN network.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
ah My name is Ian Mackay, as I said, and I'm joined by Nicola Pringle-Adams, who I haven't seen since she was at junior school.
00:01:05
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Hello.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, no, it's not quite that long ago.
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
I
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Global Sports Podcast Network
But haven't seen you for ages.
Newcastle's Game Schedule and Isak's Statement
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Global Sports Podcast Network
How the devil are you?
00:01:12
Nicola Pringle-Adams
was not Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, I am. I was on with you last week, wasn't I? Me, you and Michael?
00:01:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Were you?
00:01:18
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, last Tuesday, think.
00:01:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Maybe. Yeah. Well, you with if michael if Michael was on, that's why I didn't hear anything that you said. Because you know how Michael goes on.
00:01:26
Nicola Pringle-Adams
But I am good. How are you?
00:01:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm good. I'm good. And we've got a bit of a wacky schedule this week. Because the tonight we should be recording our preview for the Saturday afternoon kick-off. Except this week.
00:01:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah We are playing on a Monday night, which means that um our preview and our crossover podcast will come in the second part of the weekend. I know you're talking to the Liverpool guys with Joanne on Sunday afternoon.
00:01:48
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yes.
00:01:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
That will be out on Monday. And I guess we'll be doing our preview Saturday night. So that's out on Sunday morning or maybe Friday night on Saturday morning. This is a bonus, which is why it's going to be a... I've called it... a Mac and Nick pick-a-mix, so we can talk about quite a few things. However, i have been following your comments with an increasingly yeah widening smile at how absolutely disgusted you are by the situation at Centre Forward at Newcastle, and we haven't spoken.
00:02:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nobody's heard Nicola's strong views about the Alexander-Ezak situation. She's always been quite strongly
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Global Sports Podcast Network
against our centre forward and what he's doing. But I think those two statements, his statement and Newcastle's response on Monday night, triggered some feelings for you, Nicola.
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
Triggered a lot.
Impact and Critique of Isak's Statement
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Global Sports Podcast Network
And you haven't had an opportunity to share that with our listeners.
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:03:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
So why don't you why don't you pick the bones out of the Alexander Uzak statement, first of all, which just to remind everybody,
00:03:01
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Um,
00:03:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
was that he was very sorry he couldn't come to the football awards, but he didn't think it was right. That he felt the promises had been broken to such an extent that all trust had gone and it was much, much better for everyone concerned if there was some change.
00:03:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
What do you think?
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
um So I was really annoyed to see that his statement came out after think it was me and Joe had already recorded um or one of us had already recorded.
00:03:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:03:41
Nicola Pringle-Adams
So um that really annoyed me because I thought that would have given us a great talk would have had a lot of initial reaction there and then. um Secondly, ah thought his timing was absolutely impeccable as always.
00:03:56
Nicola Pringle-Adams
He's been silent for what, five or so weeks now? Five, six-ish weeks, maybe five weeks.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
you
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
um And he thought the best time to um speak up was when he couldn't um make the PFA awards or whatever it was that he was meant to be attending. And thirdly, i thought his statement was an absolute slap in the face to Eddie Howe, fans, his teammates and the club in general. I thought it was shocking.
00:04:25
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And I actually can't work out if he's wrote that or his agents wrote it or ChatGPT wrote it because... m Yeah, it was just a whole lot of words that didn't have a lot of meaning and behind it. um I mean, now I've had a couple of days to sit on it. I'm just going to sit here and say this obviously can't be a nice situation for him to be in, nor the club to be in. So let me just take him into account. It obviously can't be a nice situation for him to be in.
00:04:53
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And he has obviously had some sort of gentleman's handshake or some sort of off paper promise that he's now saying. from someone at the club at some point about whatever it may be, a contract distension, money review, you know, and potentially leaving, blah, blah. um No one's going to really know the truth of what's happened there other than him
Club's Response and Transfer Implications
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
and the people that were involved.
00:05:18
Nicola Pringle-Adams
So it's really hard to comment on that. and But I feel really quite sad the fact that the club has now been put in this situation where they then had to come out and make a, you know, ah follow-up statement on,
00:05:31
Nicola Pringle-Adams
what Alexander Isak said and basically said he's not for sale and he's not going anywhere and when he's ready he'll be able to rejoin his teammates which is obviously not going to happen is it so um and we've had i mean the past couple of weeks obviously we've been putting our opinions up on our TikTok page and Instagram page and it's been a lot of comments from all sorts of fans but mainly um our lovely Liverpool um fans across the world um sort of saying that Newcastle are holding him hostage and, you know, free Isak and all this sort of thing.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
And I'm just a bit like, I don't really know what people expect the club to do because there's two situations. We either buckle and let him go ah you know, the first offer that got made, which was obviously completely lowballed in my opinion, which to me then sends a message to future players of, we're okay if you act like this because we'll just let you go anyway.
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
or the other situation they have is they keep him as they, ah you know, have come out and said that's what they're doing right at this second. um they keep him you know make them make him train wherever make him train his own you know whatever they do he's got three years left of his contract and then they're still seeing the bad guys because then does that put future players off coming to the club so it's like not a win-win situation for anyone involved and it's I wouldn't wish it on any team to be honest um yeah I just thought his whole statement was very oddly timed um
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:06:57
Nicola Pringle-Adams
And Tristan absolutely slap in the face to everyone involved in the club, his teammates and the fans, because we've done nothing but stick by him.
00:07:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
i think I think the timing is, I don't know, maybe it's the exact ego coming through because he should have been the centre of attention anyway by being picked as centre forward in that Premier League team of the season at the dinner and he would have got all of his fellow professionals congratulating him.
00:07:13
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:07:15
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm-hmm. Agreed.
00:07:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
But he missed out on that. And actually, strangely, it's all about his, certainly in Newcastle, All the news is about his statement about why he wasn't there, rather than that celebration of a really quite a good Premier League season that we went through.
00:07:41
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I haven't seen anything about that, really. um So I think maybe that was it. However, I found it was just really so vague that it's, i mean, you can't say that promises were made and broken without saying who made them.
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
Exactly.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Somebody's got to be accountable for them.
00:07:57
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:07:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And if you can't say who it is, then it's vague. But also, what strength does any promise anybody has given him carry against the promise he made when he signed his six-year contract, m which he still has three years to go?
00:08:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
I thought today, and I've not heard anybody else do this, tell me if this is mental or not, but I'm married, right? And that is marriage for the fourth time.
00:08:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I've been in situations where I've been married and I've thought, whoa, you know, I've wanted to change clubs, even though i'm on a lifetime contract.
00:08:34
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm-hmm.
00:08:37
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:08:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I've not been able to move clubs without first agreeing the terms of my move with any previous Mrs Mackay who might be in the frame for this particular example.
00:08:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
is it So it's it's the same with him. You know, we all have divorces that need to happen. And if Isaac's looking for a divorce and wants to move on to pastures new, fair play.
00:09:10
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm-hmm.
00:09:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
But you can't do that without talking to your existing partner and coming to some sort of arrangement. and Who gets cat? Who keeps the house?
00:09:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
who keeps the house Whatever it is, once that fin financial side is all sorted out, then and that can happen and you can move on and start your next thing. It's a little bit like that, isn't it?
00:09:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, that's the sort of contract that he signed.
00:09:36
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah Well, yeah this is what I thought because I remember reading it think I might have even been put in our WhatsApp chat, I put it somewhere saying, you know, it's ironic he's going on about broken promises, but he's like, what was he, two years, three years into his six-year contract that he's promised to make. um my part My point is as
Player Transfers and Club Strategy
00:09:53
Nicola Pringle-Adams
well is I don't understand what's happened with him in the spate in the span of, say, I don't know, six or seven weeks where he goes to Austria for pre-season training or whatever it was that he went there for.
00:10:05
Nicola Pringle-Adams
He then encourages Anthony Langer to sign for Newcastle and was all over Anthony Langer's social media buzzing that he was joining. going have his best mate playing for him. He was involved in every single one of our kit launches on the lead up to, well, particularly but wake it sorry the home kit and the third kit.
00:10:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know
00:10:23
Nicola Pringle-Adams
He's watched the whole Eketike saga unfold where we went for him, Liverpool then obviously took him off of us. And now all of a sudden he kicks up off us. What's happened in that five weeks where it's true?
00:10:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well,
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
I don't know. Yeah.
00:10:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
but but yeah i think I think there was, you know, his head was turned. maybe Maybe his head was turned on the downtime on the Ostia trip, whenever it was.
00:10:45
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:10:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
um He's come back from Austria thinking, oh, I'm not going have season with this lot when I could be with newcastle or with Liverpool. I really want to get to Liverpool. And so he sort of didn't go on the Singapore trip. He had a thigh injury and he's just sort of trained on his targets. There's nobody at Newcastle.
00:11:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
and And he's got... You know, he he would he could have said, can I just go and train at the old place? Because he does that a lot.
00:11:09
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah, it does, yeah.
00:11:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's where his private medical guys that do the the massaging of the groin, etc. are based. He could have said, I'd like to do that.
00:11:17
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm-hmm.
00:11:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
They would have said, yeah, go and do that while we're away. I'll see when we come back. But it's, I think, he's got really sort of stroppy and nasty.
00:11:29
Nicola Pringle-Adams
It's awful.
00:11:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
when when Newcastle have looked like they're signing Eketike, and we thought it was a replacement because we all knew that he wanted to move.
00:11:30
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Mm-hmm.
00:11:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
We all knew that Liverpool had to make the £150 million bid, or our valuation anyway.
00:11:45
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:11:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
We knew that we had to have sign a replacement.
00:11:48
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:11:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
As we were signing it, we started getting dead excited. Do you remember? That was a fantastic evening where we thought Eketike was being signed to play alongside Isaac Eketike.
00:11:59
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:12:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
that That triggered Liverpool to come and get Eketike because I think they might have been worried about about meeting a Newcastle side with those two up front.
00:12:03
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yep
00:12:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I think Liverpool getting Eketike has really pushed Isaac over the edge because he now thinks, well, are they still going to come for me? They've promised that they're going come for me and I've started all this because they're going to come for me.
00:12:21
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Yeah.
00:12:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so he's really, really kicked off from then. I don't know how much of it's him. don't how much of it is him reacting to what his agent has told him. We'll never know, will we?
00:12:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it is just a an awful situation.
00:12:34
Nicola Pringle-Adams
We will never know. No.
00:12:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now, we've managed to chat about his statement for 12 minutes now, Nicola, and I'm missing this.
00:12:50
Nicola Pringle-Adams
Hey.
00:13:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nick Britton, responsible for one of the funniest lines ever uttered on this podcast when he came in after that advert saying, every time I hear Ken do the Bionic advert, I feel like I need a shower.
00:13:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's really good. affirm
00:13:53
Nicola Pringle-Adams
ah brilliant
00:13:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Excellent, yes. So, within... A blink of an eye, I think it was about two and a half hours after Izak had posted on social media, Newcastle came back with a um ah response saying they were disappointed to hear about this social media post that at no time had any club official said to Alec Izak that he could leave this summer, that...
00:14:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was very clear and they him and his agent knew that there were some treat certain preconditions that had to be met, namely a replacement sign and the proper valuation for the offer made before it would even be considered and that they didn't foresee those conditions being met this transfer window.
00:14:41
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And then, which I really liked, What a big happy family we are. And our little black sheep Alex, once he stopped crying and chucking everything around, can come back and be with his lovely brothers and sisters are waiting to welcome him so we can all play football again.
00:14:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
What did you think of that that response?
00:15:02
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um first of all i read it well what reanroin was i actually woke up the next morning to it i didn't actually see it when it first came out
00:15:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:09
Nicola Pringle-Adams
so when i logged onto social media obviously there was an absolute outpourt of like that's my club this is my club um ah liked it i liked it and i said last week when i was on with kevin jo i think it was or maybe the week before i think it was about time the club made a statement and obviously i know this one's been kind of um what's the word um encouraged because of alex's m stupid briie statement um but i thought to myself no that is sending a message of but're not here to be pushed about bullied this is
00:15:39
Nicola Pringle-Adams
this is the stunts we're taken and when he's ready if he's ever ready he can come back and join his teammates but before then you know this is this is the stunt we're taken he's not for saye oh um and no thats that's the best approach to have what what we're supposed to do buckle and fold and liverpool have offered one hundred and ten million just you know accept that first offer no not going to do that
00:16:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:02
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and and they haven't come back for the other one so it's just like
00:16:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
well i think i think there was a message in there for liverpool as well
00:16:05
Nicola Pringle-Adams
a message i think
00:16:10
Nicola Pringle-Adams
ah yeah hundred um
00:16:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
there was a clear message, the clear message saying, if you really want him, you've got two weeks of the transfer window.
00:16:15
Nicola Pringle-Adams
come again
00:16:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
We have got to sign somebody as a replacement. but we also want our full valuation for him. So I don't know if that means 150 million.
00:16:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
It certainly doesn't mean 110. But, you know, if they came in with 130 plus some bonuses, I'm um imagining that if we have got a replacement, that we would be sitting down and talking.
00:16:32
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um heard the middle
00:16:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because I think ultimately, Izak's right. Change probably would be the best for everybody. If those conditions were met, but at the moment, without a centre forward going into a 60 game season that includes eight Champions League games or six before Christmas and the first half of the league season, we we can't.
00:16:59
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah
00:17:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's not good for Newcastle to let our centre forward go.
00:17:03
Nicola Pringle-Adams
no
00:17:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because at the moment, um even if Wisser comes in and he or somebody else comes in and he's the replacement for Wilson, we are still missing our spearhead 27 goals last year.
00:17:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
And this is a really important season to consolidate a very good season last year. and i mean, we need him. um I know we need somebody.
Transfer Market Dynamics
00:17:22
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But if it's not a Sesco or an Eketike, by the way, what the hell live will Liverpool do buying an Eketike?
00:17:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
They've kind of shot themselves in the foot there.
00:17:31
Nicola Pringle-Adams
well
00:17:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
And
00:17:31
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and this is what i thought i'm a bit like you know he sat on there talking about broken promises while the club that he wanted to join well he wants to join schlese swooped in and brought the player that we were trying to get clearly probably trying to replace esac um so you're right they have kind of shot themselves in the foot because you know if we had eatetika we'd probably be more willingly to maybe be like yeah by and
00:17:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
He'd be there. I've no doubt isaac Isaac would have been playing for Liverpool against Bournemouth in the first game of the season.
00:17:54
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah you'd he'd have gone
00:17:58
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um monday and the sorry yeah last week so um also a little bit like you cut what do you want us to do for that um they're also yet to submit a reasonable offer by the way so that's that second thing there
00:18:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm. Hmm.
00:18:12
Nicola Pringle-Adams
um and also hello alex alexander reac there is this thing called a transfer request you can put in a formal transfer request but you won't not yet anyway because you're afraid to lose out on some sort of money so if you're't desperate to go hand the club a formal transfer request off you go
00:18:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
this is a This is it. This is exactly it and I mean, you could put a transfer request in wild while we're playing in Celtic and everybody knows where we stand.
00:18:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we've got the whole other transfer window to say, okay, you've got a transfer request.
00:18:42
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah
00:18:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll accept offers at our valuation. And we know that we're looking for a replacement. I know we've tried to recruit, but a lot of that recruitment was about who was going to play alongside EZAC to start with.
00:19:00
Nicola Pringle-Adams
exactly
00:19:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Joe Pedro was going to play behind. You know, we were talking, weren't we? Why are buying two forwards? Because we don't play that way.
00:19:07
Nicola Pringle-Adams
exactly
00:19:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Joe Pedro is going to have to play behind Isaac. And honestly, we were a mugs then.
00:19:11
Nicola Pringle-Adams
i mean i don't like
00:19:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
i think how's known.
00:19:15
Nicola Pringle-Adams
ah yeah he's obviously what i feel sorry for howe was for is he's actually back to eesac in front of the public and his press conference and things like that you know he's got an injury this is done and he's kind of now been bated into a corner where he's had to come out and say you know so hi them me because
00:19:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:19:28
Nicola Pringle-Adams
can't get involved in that anymore sort of thing and that's a shame because i feel a bit like well he's actually sat and backed you and e to give arch done the complete opposite and chucked it in his face saw a thing what i do want to say is ah do understand why he wants to go to liverpool or you know a champion league winning and team or something i do want
00:19:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh yeah.
00:19:48
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and i do completely get it um and the same goes for players like ekati k wood would eketica gone to liverpool if eessac was already there i'm not sure um but i understand why these players want to go ah get the appeal and i'm not um not question that because we've just one half a trophy and what was like what fifty five years or whatever it was um so i do get it what i don't get is the way these plays are going about it and i'm going to include vis are in there um scenario obviously i know brent
00:20:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
We have to.
00:20:19
Nicola Pringle-Adams
different story but this whole power play and egotistical attitude that these plays seem to have all of a sudden got is tris not on and it and any respectable club would surely be put off by this sort of attitude or any i don't to add a personally i've got to be honest i don't want whiser to come to newcastle because the way you treat your brentford i think it's appalling um and know it's a slightly different situation because you know they said to him that he could go and then they've mutdtered around with you you know the fee and all that sort of thing so um just a bit like these players with an attitude i don't want them many anywhere near my club but i mean and that's where i stand with esac at the minute i don't think i can personally
00:20:56
Nicola Pringle-Adams
watch him in a newcastle shirt again which has absolute madness to
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00:21:00
Nicola Pringle-Adams
say by the way ah he's a fantastic player and i will not take that away from him but i'm also like and you go from here
00:21:09
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Where we go from here, Nicola, is that you're going to read me the Zencastr advert.
00:21:12
Nicola Pringle-Adams
oh yeah
00:21:14
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
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Isak's Future at Newcastle
00:22:02
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It's part three. So, Nicola, I'm not going to say what i think straight away. I'm going to let you go into it because I had a bit of a chat with Nick about it last night.
00:22:12
Nicola Pringle-Adams
oh
00:22:13
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Where are we on September the 2nd, do you think?
00:22:17
Nicola Pringle-Adams
ah say as in in relation to eessac
00:22:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is Izak a Newcastle player?
00:22:22
Nicola Pringle-Adams
absolutely not
00:22:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is Izak a Newcastle player who's training and getting fit to come back after the international break to play for Newcastle?
00:22:28
Nicola Pringle-Adams
no
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Or have we sold him?
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
nope i think we are personally after i know it sounds really sillyic i know this is's not how business or football works i think after monday evening he's gone
00:22:41
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Do you?
00:22:41
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and ye i think the comeback with another offer for him and i think he's going
00:22:46
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But that would be, well, obviously that would have to be a huge money offer. We'd have to get the vast bulk of the 150 that they would have. Because I can't see us with a with a replacement signed by Monday evening.
00:22:58
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Or can you? Have you heard something on the grapevine?
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
true no acom no i have said i'm not going to be on this is the driest i've seen the newcastle transfer window in the past couple of days and it's all been since newcastle's statement of alex alexander sachs not for sale um or not leaving or wherever it was um i've not seen it linked to anyone other than this whole visca situation going on and if you leaving brenfordt is you not and that is the only thing i've seen
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I
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
um yes i guess it does depend on that really
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ah can't believe because...
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
but can you see him being a new cattle player
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Well, buck can. I can envisage that because that's happened before. There's precedent for it. I mean, I can remember Carlos Tevez disappearing from Manchester City back to Argentina for six months when he was under contract.
00:23:41
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah
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And he still came back from that and played and played a ah big part in their... Their success later on, whether it's the same season or the next season. and But that was patched up.
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Pierre Van Hollydonk at Nottingham Forest, um which might be a bit before your time. But Nick was mentioning that last night. He went on strike. They were burning effigies of him outside the ground.
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But he still came back and scored a few goals for Nottingham Forest. So I can see that. And in fact, I think Newcastle's statement is trying to draw line under it.
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They're saying, look, we want a ton of cash.
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah true
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Liverpool have only got two thirds of the value that we're after. And we don't need just a wilsons Wilson replacement. We need an EZAC replacement. And only when all those three things are in place will we consider selling Alex.
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Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah
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And none of those three things are in place. I don't think Liverpool will come back with 150. I think they're waiting. I don't think they'll come back at all unless we get...
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ah two strikers board. We get Strand Larson and Wisse, think they'll come back and I think we'll sell him. But I can't see, there's only 10 days of the market of the transfer market left.
00:24:57
Nicola Pringle-Adams
there not long left
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So i I think we've got, what I think will happen is that Izak will be welcomed back into the fold once he's finished crying. He'll train with them and after the international break towards the end of September, he'll steal be on the bench.
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And we'll bring him on. He'll do his 30 minutes. Then he'll have a half. And then he'll be picked from October. Michael's always said he'd be playing for us again from the start of October. Now, I know Michael's not right very often, but I think he might be right in this instance.
00:25:30
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and and let's be let's be honest that's where the Champions League kicks in what chance have we got in the Champions League with the world's best striker playing centre forward in comparison to one of the world's best wingers playing down the middle or Willis Sula stumbling around looking like he's been blindfolded I think that the prize is too big for us this season to allow Isak just to get his own way by throwing his toys out of the pram
00:25:32
Nicola Pringle-Adams
that take
00:26:00
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah that's fair
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Now, i think liverpool might I think Liverpool might come back in if we can buy somebody in the January. But I don't know if they'd want him in January because he'd be cuptied to play in the Champions League for them.
00:26:11
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I think it's next summer. But that would mean that Izak would need to sign a new contract, get his bumper payday, have a release clause that kicks in in June, disappear off to Liverpool.
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Which would be ironic going to Liverpool when they get knocked out in the quarterfinals and Newcastle have won the Champions League.
00:26:28
Nicola Pringle-Adams
by
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But hey, you know what I mean?
00:26:28
Nicola Pringle-Adams
but yeah
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wish wish wish wish wish wish i mean what do you what do you think what do you think this is stressed well i dad died i think we're just guessing aren't we we're just guessing
00:26:33
Nicola Pringle-Adams
wishful thinking
00:26:37
Nicola Pringle-Adams
i'm just stressed about it so i don't want to think about it
00:26:43
Nicola Pringle-Adams
you think yeah we are guessing i mean i can't imagine he's going to be welcomed back with open arms i but be honest i can't imagine going back into your first training session and haven doy linttoniring you down is gonna be the most welcoming ever
00:26:55
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Yeah, ah but I mean, I can. I think they're great. but if they He's part of that really close-knit team.
00:27:02
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah yeah yeah
00:27:04
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and And he's been away from it for a month. I think they'll take the mic. I think they'll take the mic. I think there might be some joshing.
00:27:13
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah yeah good point
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I think there might be some leg pulling. But I think once he comes in and he starts training and they're working hard and they're all looking at...
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00:27:22
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um the Wolves game is it we'll come back from the international break I think i think the players will have him back Eddie wants him every time every opportunity Eddie Howe's had he said the door's here it's up to Alex it's up to Alex to decide when he wants to come back the statement says we are here waiting for you mate when when you're ready to come back into when the black sheep's ready to come back into the arms of his family I think that's that's what they want
00:27:28
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and
00:27:41
Nicola Pringle-Adams
when you're ready come back yeah
00:27:46
Nicola Pringle-Adams
but that day was not today because he was filmed going into the nucater training ground looking like he's likem miserableas um on his own so that day was not today
00:27:57
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It must be, it must be, well, he's got to do it though, hasn't he? He's got to stay stroppy right through because there's still a chance he gets his dream move to Liverpool.
00:28:06
Nicola Pringle-Adams
he's going to be stroy up until or least begin the september
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and
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I think we should ask Liverpool to include Ekotike in any deal when they come for Izak.
00:28:10
Nicola Pringle-Adams
at least
00:28:15
Nicola Pringle-Adams
i agree yeah
00:28:16
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Because imagine selling that to Ekotike. He must be, if therereafter If they come after Isak, Ekotike must be sitting there thinking, oh my God, ah left newke I didn't go to Newcastle so I could go and join PSG and end up sitting on the bench watching Messi and all the rest of them at PSG.
00:28:33
Nicola Pringle-Adams
know
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And it's doing exactly the same at bloody Liverpool because he's got Florian Wurtz and Alexander Isak ahead of him.
00:28:39
Nicola Pringle-Adams
well ah no that friend yeah i know
00:28:42
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Yeah.
00:28:42
Nicola Pringle-Adams
shame but
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So, very odd.
00:28:43
Nicola Pringle-Adams
we turn soon we shall soon say
00:28:46
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We'll see. Now, before the match... Possibly just as entertaining is going to be Monday Morning's podcast where you and Joanne take on, I think it's Jesse and can't remember the other lad called Ardvark or something.
00:29:02
Nicola Pringle-Adams
but
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It's not Ardvark. It's like that. m But you were going to take those two on and I reckon there's going to be tears. I reckon there's going to be tears and emotion.
00:29:14
Nicola Pringle-Adams
not for me
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And I know it's the poor Liverpool boys I'm worried about. They're going to be so upset when you and Joe get your teeth into them. They think they're coming to preview a football match and they're just going to have to carry the can for all of those Liverpool fans who've been telling us to that release Ezekiel without them paying the hostage money.
00:29:22
Nicola Pringle-Adams
oh yeah
00:29:32
Nicola Pringle-Adams
look
00:29:34
Nicola Pringle-Adams
look nick brit wanted the best crossover pod that he's ever going to get so he's going to get one
00:29:41
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It is going to be excellent. It's going to be like mixed gender tag team wrestling. It will be fantastic.
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I will be listening on Monday morning. um ah though i imagine the YouTube video will be really, I don't think we're actually going to do the wrestling.
00:29:54
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Although there's time to get, there's time to get leotards over to Liverpool.
00:29:57
Nicola Pringle-Adams
ah still lineme
00:29:59
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There is, there is. i know you and Joe have got your sparkly daily Newcastle leotards you could be wearing for wrestling anyway.
00:30:05
Nicola Pringle-Adams
absolutely exactly
00:30:06
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um That is, it's gone, it's gone very dark again, hasn't it? Thank you very much indeed for joining us, Nicola, for putting this and Mac and neck pick and macck and Nick Pickamix pod out.
00:30:15
Nicola Pringle-Adams
youre welcome
00:30:18
Nicola Pringle-Adams
ah can mix
00:30:19
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Yeah. I don't know if do you remember Pickamix from Woolworths.
00:30:22
Nicola Pringle-Adams
yeah love
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Again, yeah but you're too young to remember Woolworths.
00:30:23
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and make
00:30:25
Nicola Pringle-Adams
i get it from wilkins and
00:30:26
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Anyway, fine.
00:30:27
Nicola Pringle-Adams
ah you be wilkinson it's gone now
00:30:29
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At least you know what i'm talking about. um Thank you for joining us. I've had another little go and it's a different view, a stronger view than either Nick or I put forward last night.
00:30:40
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So that's all good. Thank you very much everybody for listening out there in podcast land or watching on YouTube. If you're watching on YouTube, don't forget to subscribe and click the like button because that helps us.
00:30:53
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um And also listen out for the other GSPN stablemates. I think it's tomorrow that Nick's very own World Cup 26, Road to the World Cup 26 podcast comes out every Friday.
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And that is a very, very good listen.
00:31:06
Nicola Pringle-Adams
so
00:31:08
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Thank you very much, Nicola. I'm going to get one more go at playing this lovely thing and we shall see you.
00:31:10
Nicola Pringle-Adams
and problem thank you
00:31:14
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Well, we're going see you for all the extra pods over the weekend.
00:31:17
Nicola Pringle-Adams
you will