[Sport] 'A sour taste' - inside a summer like no other in Newcastle's history

[FRIDAY THE 13]

 

 

This was the mantra behind the scenes at Newcastle United long before a draining window finally shut.

And with good reason.

It was always going to be a breathless finale and so it proved as Newcastle sold Alexander Isak to Liverpool for a British record £125m but brought in Yoane Wissa in a £55m deal from Brentford.

There is relief on Tyneside that Newcastle have signed a proven Premier League forward in Wissa to ease the burden on record signing Nick Woltemade, who has never played for a club outside Germany.

But, after holding firm for so long, Newcastle have also lost one of the best strikers in the world to the champions on deadline day.

That felt like an unimaginable prospect to outsiders when Isak was bouncing up and down in a celebratory huddle as the Champions League anthem played out at St James' Park after Newcastle secured qualification on the final day of last season.

But this has been a summer like no other in the club's history.

 

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