{"id":402129,"date":"2025-09-06T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402129\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:01:15","slug":"dan-burn-breaks-silence-on-alexander-isak-leaving-newcastle-united-for-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402129\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Burn breaks silence on Alexander Isak leaving Newcastle United for Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Newcastle United star Dan Burn has broken his silence on Alexander Isak\u2019s controversial move to Liverpool.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

On deadline day, Newcastle United sold Isak to Liverpool for a British record fee<\/a>, thought to be worth between \u00a3125-\u00a3130million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newcastle didn\u2019t want to sell Isak<\/a> but the Sweden international forced their hand. Newcastle fans were furious with Isak<\/a>, who was in a self-imposed exile from Eddie Howe<\/a>\u2019s team while he waited for the green light to move to Anfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indeed, some of the Newcastle squad were angry with Isak\u2019s behaviour<\/a>, with the team\u2019s lack of a striker hampering them during the first three games of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, what\u2019s done is done. Isak has said goodbye to Newcastle fans<\/a>, although his message is unlikely to help heal the wounds he has created.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Burn, however, struck a different note when speaking about the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"DanPhoto by Sebastian Frej\/MB Media\/Getty ImagesDan Burn doesn\u2019t hold a grudge over Alexander Isak \u00a0<\/p>\n

The England defender was speaking at a press conference on Friday, ahead of his country\u2019s meeting with Andorra on Saturday. <\/p>\n

While Burn<\/a> admitted he could see why Newcastle<\/a> fans were unhappy with Isak<\/a>, he revealed that he personally had no animosity towards him. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In Burn\u2019s view, sagas like that are just part of the game in professional football. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad it\u2019s done,\u201d said Burn of Isak\u2019s move. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think we wanted the transfer window to close, just to have a bit of clarity on it. But listen, I\u2019ve been in football long enough to understand that for a player, the careers are short and they\u2019ve got things that they want to achieve. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo, for me, I\u2019m happy that it\u2019s over. Alex is a mate, so it was a tough situation because you want him to be around and helping the team. But [I] also understand for him what he needs to do personally, so I\u2019ve got nothing but sort of good wishes for Alex. \u00a0<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cNo animosity [towards him]. I think, obviously as a Newcastle fan \u2013 and you know what Newcastle fans are like \u2013 we are very protective about our club and our city and you want players to be there who want to play for Newcastle and you don\u2019t want them to sort of naively think there\u2019s anywhere else to go apart from play at Newcastle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I understand why our fans are frustrated. But, as I said, I think I\u2019ve been in the game long enough now to understand what goes on. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs I said, I wish Alex all the best apart from when we play Liverpool, obviously.\u201d <\/p>\n

The two Newcastle United players who dropped a major hint about Alexander Isak <\/p>\n

Both Sven Botman and Anthony Gordon sent public messages to Isak after his move to Liverpool<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They, of course, are well within their rights to. Isak is clearly a friend and, from a player\u2019s view, is just getting a new job. <\/p>\n

Players, of course, have a different view of it all. They tend to focus on their careers rather than emotional connections with clubs, as is their right. <\/p>\n

However, what was more interesting was the fact not many other members of the Newcastle United squad<\/a> appeared to publicly wish Isak well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What goes on behind closed doors is their business but it was notable not many other players followed suit on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United star Dan Burn has broken his silence on Alexander Isak\u2019s controversial move to Liverpool.\u00a0 On deadline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[9261,748,52136,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-402129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-dan-burn","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115156306130256368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}