Forget Isak, United squad now stronger than last season

..AND THESE BOYS ACTUALLY WANT TO PLAY FOR US!

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RIGHT, let me nail my colours to the mast and hoist it high. Let me fly the flag of defiance.

Newcastle United may have lost the most naturally gifted centre-forward in Europe on transfer deadline day but they are overall better off than we had dared to expect.

Let me state right now that the SQUAD is stronger than last season, even after losing Isak’s goals, and that is crucial as we enter Champions League territory.

So goodbye Alexander Isak, football’s Incredible Sulk, and hello Nick Woltemade and Yoane Wissa, United’s new Little and Large act which is a definite upgrade on the originals Alan Shoulder and Peter Withe.

Remember we also have our right sided centre-back Malick Thiaw, right-winger Anthony Elanga, midfielder Jacob Ramsey and goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale.

May I suggest that after initial panic at the slowness of progress United got there in the end. It has turned out to be a nice day. Sometimes you have to take the long route to get to where you want to be.

With our late flurry, splashing the cash like a good 'un, my mind was taken back to the late seventies. Then United paired Shoulder (5ft Sin), the pitman from Blyth Spartans, alongside 6ft 2in Withe, who went on to score the winning goal in a European Cup final for Aston Villa and be capped by England.

Wissa, at 5ft 9in, and 6ft Gin Woltemade are a physical replica but Little and Large Mark 1 operated in the Second Division whereas Mark 2 will be in the Champions League.

Isak tried to do us down and cost us greatly at the start of a new Premier League season, tarnishing the glowing memories of Wembley glory, but to heck with him. Yes 1am sickened that Isak’s bully boy tactics should win in the end. That he should get what he wants by taking a sledgehammer to decency and the letter of the law blowing a huge hole in football’s contracts system.