Alan Shearer has branded Alexander Isak ‘nonsensical’ and tells him to sack his agent due to the ‘f****** mess’ he is in.
Alan Shearer criticised Alexander Isak’s agent for botching his six-year Newcastle contract (signed in 2022, no exit clause) and giving poor advice, calling it “ridiculous” to trust verbal promises in football.
He believes Isak mishandled the situation by refusing to train/play and releasing a statement that inflamed tensions, making it messy for both player and club.
Shearer stressed that the club is more important than any individual and urges Isak to say sorry and reintegrate back into the team before the transfer window closes for any chance of redemption; otherwise, reconciliation seems impossible if he stays.
He contrasts this with Trent Alexander-Arnold’s Liverpool exit, noting Trent honoured his contract, didn’t refuse duties, and left as a free agent—unlike Isak, who has three years left.
🗣️ @AlanShearer: “I didn’t know [Alexander] Isak had this in him.” pic.twitter.com/fGlGE8Ic15
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Shearer told Betfair: “Oh my God, what a f***ing mess his agent has made of this, honestly.
“If I was him, I’d get his agent in a room and sack him on the spot immediately, because he is meant to be giving him the advice to sign that six‑year deal (in 2022, until 2028) and there’s no get‑out clause.
“I mean, it’s ridiculous. And to take anyone’s word in football… it’s nonsensical to say that someone said, “Oh, I’ll be able to get out at the end of the season.” Really? I mean, come on.
“Newcastle have also released a statement saying that promises were not broken, or promises were never made. I’ve always said there are two sides to every story, but my feelings are exactly the same: he’s gone about it in the wrong way.
“Everything sort of boils down to: I think he’s being given bad advice and the way he’s going about it is wrong, I really do.
“I just think even releasing this statement last night has thrown flames onto the fire, which he didn’t need to do.
“I get that we needed to hear his side of the story and we’ve heard that now, and I’m not saying I don’t believe him or I don’t believe Newcastle, I’m just saying it’s very, very messy for him and for the football club. It doesn’t benefit anyone.
“There’s a lot of anger, there’s a lot of frustration, because we all come and go, fans come and go, players come and go, but the one constant that doesn’t is the football club. That’s far more important than anyone, any individual, any player has ever been and ever will be.
“It’s their football club, it’s their community, it’s what they do, it’s what they love, it’s what they pay their money for, for their shirts. So, understandably, there’s a lot of anger around, and I totally get that when someone says they don’t want to play for their club.
“It’s not a good look on a player or an agent to not go out and train and not go out and play when you have a contract behind you. It’s not a good look and it’s not a good thing to do.
“Last night’s statement hasn’t done him any favours whatsoever in terms of trying to get Newcastle onside or forcing them into a decision, I think they’ll just go the opposite way.
“If he were to apologise and get back into the group before the end of the transfer window, then there would be a way back for him (without apologising). But if he’s still here after the transfer window, I can’t see how you come back from that. He clearly wants to get out and is willing to do anything to do that.”
Newcastle hit back as Alexander Isak claims in his statement that the club ‘broke promises’
Alan Shearer says he has been left disbelief at the way the situation has played out, saying on the Rest is Football podcast: “I sat down with him five or six months ago, and I didn’t see this in him.
“I thought he was a manager’s dream to be honest, the way he spoke and the way he, sort of, was talking about himself and the club and his life and everything else.
“Obviously something has massively upset him and we don’t know that, but those two circumstances, Trent and Alexander Isak, are totally different.”
After fans compared the situation to Trent Alexander-Arnold and how he left Liverpool to join Real Madrid, Shearer says this is nonsense: “Trent was a kid who was brought up Liverpool, he came to the end of his contract. He didn’t refuse to play, he didn’t refuse to train and then was well within his rights to leave.
“Now, Isak’s got three years left on his contract, it doesn’t take a genius to work that out does it? Come on.”
Gary Lineker says: “I think Liverpool fans’ problem is that he (Alexander-Arnold) is a Liverpool lad and they feel like they didn’t get a monster transfer fee for him.”
Watch more of this interview in the YouTube video above…
This is how fans reacted after Alan Shearer has branded Alexander Isak ‘nonsensical’ and tells him to sack his agent…
@ahmedIfc: Sack him on the spot for doing what Isak wants??? Do they think these footballers are children?
@ChatsJamiefc: Did his agent write that statement???
@owenforresttt: Of course Alan isn’t going to give shit on Newcastle he’s paid by them that’s why anything he says is just horseshit ahaha, it’s nothing to do with his agent as per isak’s statement from an account he controls last night lmao
@BackseatsmanLFC: Yeah, it’s definitely all the agent, Alan. Isak probably isn’t even aware that any of this is happening. He’s just thought that training felt a bit lonely recently. No chance it could be him that desperately wants to leave and join a big club.
@JoshuaKekana: I get not agreeing with the way Isak’s gone about this but I genuinely believe he’d be no closer to leaving if he’d trained and played the whole time. And blaming his agent is such a cop out
@PaulSenior1: The fuck has it got to do with his agent honestly. He’s told Newcastle he wants to go to a club that isn’t just in the champions league, that feels can win it, plus leagues etc. The way it’s being perceived as greed or whatever is a nonsense. It’s a short career and he’s at the age he needs to go and win the big ones – how is this so hard to understand?
@NotoriousLFC: What if Isak was actually told he could leave this Summer like he said and club then backed out. No one knows what promises were made behind closed doors. Shearer has been trying to vilify Isak the last couple of weeks, looks extremely bitter. @alanshearer
@justyn_lfc: Never understood Shearer or Don Hutchinson saying Isak should sack his agent. Blaming this on anyone but Newcastle’s own faults of broken promises and being incapable of buying players
@Ari_U_7: Lol it’s interesting that Shearer is making this out to be solely his agent’s fault, like Isak has no say in this at all. He’s a hostage being carried along for the ride. I guess it makes sense if they still harbour hopes of “reintegrating” him to have a scapegoat. Still, 😄😄
Think at some point, we really need to stop trying to blame agents.
These are grown adult men – Their agents can suggest whatever but the final say is ALWAYS with the player.
Can understand it must be tough for Alan to accept a top player wants to leaves his beloved club. https://t.co/Gg437WPE6X
— Footy Accumulators (@FootyAccums) August 20, 2025
Alan Shearer on Liverpool’s Alexander Isak bid:
“£110M, £120M? For Isak? That’s just his goal-scoring foot. You don’t sell your best striker because a club with history gets sentimental. We’re not a feeder club, we’re building our own.”
Well said Big Al! 🖤🤍#NUFC #NUFCFans… pic.twitter.com/4rhpkhZxLc
— Magpie 24/7 (@Magpie24_7) August 1, 2025
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