Anyone who has looked at modern football and muttered ‘the game’s gone’ has a point. Nothing confirms this belief more than the obscene amounts of money and the hypocrisy surrounding the drawn out transfer saga of Newcastle United’s Alexander Isak.

Liverpool fans think Newcastle are behaving badly by not selling them their best player, yet it was only a few months ago they were booing Trent Alexander-Arnold

For those just catching up, the Swedish striker wants to leave Newcastle. Not surprisingly for someone who regularly scores 20 plus goals a season and helped the Geordies to their first trophy win in 70 years last season, they do not want him to go and have slapped an eye-watering £150 million asking price on his head.

As a result, Isak has refused to train or play for the side who p

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