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The clause included in Alexander Isak’s £59m move to Newcastle United – Report

March 24, 2023

Olly Hawkins

https://www.nufcblog.co.uk/2023/03/24/t ... ed-report/



In his latest piece for iNews, Mark Douglas has revealed some interesting details about Alexander Isak’s club-record move to St James’ Park last summer.

He reports that Toon chiefs flew out to San Sebastian to table an opening offer worth £33m, but ‘returned within hours’ with a MUCH improved bid after our cheeky opener was immediately rejected by Real Sociedad.

In that second offer, we not only agreed to pay £26m more, along with a further £3m in add-ons (meaning the £59m deal could rise to £62m), it’s believed we agreed to include a 10% sell-on clause.

As Douglas explains in his piece, one club insider feared we’d overpaid ‘for the player he is now’, yet it hasn’t taken long for that fee to look very reasonable. After all, you won’t find many players of his age, potential and all-around ability for that sort of money.

It shows how highly he was regarded that Newcastle agreed to almost double their initial bid for the Swede, with a source close to the club telling Douglas

it will look like an absolute bargain

in years to come.

Financially, Isak would immediately justify that club-record fee if his end of season form fires us to a place in the Champions League, with a top four finish and big European nights at St James’ Park helping us attract top players and secure the sort of lucrative commercial deals we’ve been pushing to improve since new owners arrived.

Only Erling Haaland has a better minutes per goal record in the Premier League this season, but you don’t need stats to see what an outstanding young player he is, with few strikers in world football possessing his unique blend of pace, elegance, creativity and class.

As for the 10% sell-on clause, let’s hope we don’t have to think about that anytime soon, as he has the potential to be our main man up top for many years to come.




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Why Alexander Isak is the key to Newcastle’s top four hopes: ‘He has everything a striker needs’

With six goals in seven starts, only Erling Haaland is beating the Newcastle forward when it comes to goals per minute


Newcastle initially thought they’d ‘overpaid’ for Isak but now view him as their biggest bargain (Photo: Getty)

By Mark Douglas, Northern Football Correspondent

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/stri ... 1679386442

March 21, 2023

Newcastle United https://inews.co.uk/topic/newcastle-uni ... -line_link bristle at being branded the world’s richest football club. If it was up to them, they’d adopt the rather less exciting moniker of the world’s most careful club.

We have an FFP budget and we stick to it,

minority owner Amanda Staveley told the Financial Times’ Business of Football summit earlier this month.

That guides a lot of our transfer policy https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/newc ... -line_link – we can’t afford to have a dud and we have to be very careful and analytical in everything we do.

Careful isn’t the same as cautious, though. Newcastle’s transfer team rolled the dice to sign striker Alexander Isak from Real Sociedad in a club record £59million deal in August and that gamble is starting to pay off just as the race https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/the- ... -line_link for Champions League qualification tightens.

We might have overpaid for the player he is now,

was the stark admission of one insider to i when the deal was first struck.

A transfer delegation had flown to San Sebastian to table an opening offer of £33million but after that was flatly rejected, they returned within a few hours to agree to improve the offer by £26m with £3m of add-ons and a 10 per cent sell-on clause thrown in. That’s how highly they rated his potential.

There were no regrets about the deal, even then.

In years to come it will look like an absolute bargain,

the same source said.

If Isak’s late season impact ends up re-energising their top four hopes and opening the door to Champions League revenues, that prediction will have come true sooner than expected.

While Spurs fracture, https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/anto ... -line_link a united Newcastle are coalescing around the electrifying talent of Isak and a team as well drilled as any in the division.

If the accusation was that they’d become pedestrian, Isak is the antidote. At his very best the Sweden striker combines athleticism, searing pace and tremendous technique to devastating effect and neither Wolves nor Nottingham Forest were able to live with him.

While every striker in the Premier League is operating in the shadow of the extraordinary Erling Haaland, https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/mons ... -line_link Isak’s goals-per-minute record is actually second only to the Norwegian.

Haaland has scored every 75 minutes he’s been on the pitch in the Premier League whereas Isak (who has only played 619 minutes so far) has netted every 103. Six goals in seven starts – some played when he wasn’t fully fit – suggests he is a natural born finisher.

Everything that a centre-forward needs, he has,

Eddie Howe, a man not prone to exaggeration, said last week.

He’s capable of great things.

What has held him back so far is a thigh injury suffered back in September. Howe sparked concern a fortnight ago when he admitted that Isak, despite now being injury-free, was not yet ready to play a full 90 minutes.

What he meant, he later explained, was that Isak didn’t yet have the stamina to meet the demands of a Newcastle playing style based on Howe’s mantra that

intensity is our identity.

The implication there was clear: there is much more to come.

Newcastle will need him given the tantalising run of games they have when the international break resumes. Two points shy of ailing Spurs in fourth, the Magpies welcome Manchester United to St James’ Park next up. Arsenal, https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/arse ... -line_link Brighton and Antonio Conte’s side are all yet to journey to the North East.

As they bid for a transformative top four place, behind-the-scenes Newcastle have rolled out the next phase of their recruitment plan.

The club have now started interviews for seven first team and emerging talent scout roles that will cover South America, Latin America and 13 European countries identified as markets the Magpies can move into.

A sizeable part of their remit will be to help Newcastle steal a march on Europe’s elite when it comes to moving for the best young talent in the globe. It feels like a club on the move.

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ESECE: Standardized Exam for Quality Education

By: Simon Weldemichael

https://shabait.com/2023/03/24/esece-st ... education/

Mar 24, 2023

Higher education has grown enormously in Eritrea, in the past two decades. An increase in the number of secondary schools has resulted in an increase in the number of high school leavers, eligible for admission to colleges. And to meet the growing demand in higher education, the retention capacity of institutions of higher education has been expanding.

To qualify for admission to colleges, students are required to sit for the Eritrean Secondary Education Certificate Examinations (ESECE) at the end of their four-year secondary school education and score the required grade point average.

Eritrea’s overall education system has gone through rapid transformation, to make it possible to give relevant quality education for all. The aim is to raise the bar of standards and quality of education, so that students would be eligible at home and globally for enrollment at universities and for employment. ESECE, is designed to help select students who are capable to pursue higher education and also serves as certification of completion of secondary school education. Students’ results of ESECE, can be used as an indicator of the overall academic performance of students and the standard and quality of education of the country.


Dr. Bisrat Gebru

The ESECE for 2023 has been administered at exam centers across the country and in Riyadh and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It began on 13 March and lasted until 18 March, and examinations were given in 12 subjects at ten examination centers. Ninety-eight percent of the candidates for this year are regular students from Warsay Yikealo Secondary School at Sawa and technical schools, while the remaining two percent are from adult education centers and Eritrean community schools in Riyadh and Jeddah. Dr. Bisrat Gebru, Director of the Testing Center, said 14,395 students, of whom 49.1% are females, were registered to take part in the national examination.

ESECE is a standardized national examination administered by the Testing Center, which is operated by the National Higher Education and Research Institute (NHERI), an institution mandated to set policies that help regulate Eritrean institutions of higher education. One of its major goals is to prepare students for higher education through identification and selection, according to the students’ performance and talents.



Students are selected based on their academic achievement and grades in specific subjects, for entry to individual colleges. For instance, fields such as medicine, civil engineering, law and computer engineering are popular among students and admission to these fields often requires high grades in the first year college education because they are very competitive.

Despite the challenges they encounter, Eritrean colleges have been acting as drivers of the country’s socio-economic development by creating platforms for the development of human resources through a variety of fields.



Today, more than ever before, the wealth of nations is increasingly depending on their quality of higher education. But the desired result in a nation’s wealth may not be achieved by maintaining its quality of higher education, per se. Equally importantly, a nation needs to make efforts to ensure the provision of quality education at all levels; from primary schools all the way up to secondary schools. A standardized examination is essential but not sufficient, to ensure the desired quality of education is maintained. The quality of teaching, quality of curriculum, and the general quality of life are some of the key factors that determine student performance and the quality of education.

The education system of Eritrea includes five years of elementary, three years of middle school and four years of high school education. In the twelve years of education, Eritrean students are required to sit for two national examinations. At the end of grade 8, they are given a national examination to determine their eligibility for enrollment in high school. In high school, students may go to vocational schools or pursue their academic studies in either the Science or Arts streams. Students go to vocational schools after completing grade 10 and join the work force, after graduating from the vocational schools. Students in the Science and Arts streams, however, sit for ESECE at the end of their high school education; i.e. when they are in grade 12 and are admitted to institutions of higher education at degree or diploma levels on the basis of the grades they earn. The purpose of these two national examinations, is to determine students who go to the next level and appraise the quality of education.



Eritrea’s education system, has come a long way. Education is free at all levels, ranging from primary to higher education and compulsory up to grade 8. Access to higher education has improved greatly, since the opening of new institutions of higher education. Generally, the achievements so far in the education sector are quite encouraging, but there is no question that more still needs to be done to improve the quality of education schools provide at every level.

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