The Liverpool Newcastle Rivality has entered a new era

It is a permanent synonym for the drama and the maintenance of the Premier League, a match that once summarized everything that contributed to establishing the most popular domestic competition in football.

As such, Newcastle United Versus Liverpool was not a rivalry – the two clubs were recently on a level until the 1970s – but the zeitgeist of the Premier League of the early era caught.

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Liverpool was the outstanding force in English and European club football in a decline for so long; A fading force that had been overtaken by Manchester United and was waiting for champions of England again in the formative years of a three -year waiting.

In contrast, Newcastle rose. After such a long time in a national football discussion, when they bounced up between top and second stage, their promotion to the newly shaped Premier League in 1993 aroused the imagination of the new and expanding audience of football.

Under the former Liverpool player Kevin Keegan, they were “The Entertainer”, a large spending, ambitious and extremely self-confident football club, which played the most exciting, attacking and brave football in the division.

It was football without brakes; The ultimate philosophy “We will make a goal more than you achieve”. They were all in there. You didn’t win anything, but you have won hearts and minds.

The current Newcastle manager, Eddie Howe, thought of this when he applied for the job in 2021. Now 47 years old, Keegan’s Newcastle, who pulled on his hearts; The Newcastle he had seen as a teenager.

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For this generation, Newcastles played the new boast of English football against Liverpool: high scoring and very entertaining. The aristocrats of the English game against the Nouveaux areas. We have triggered the two consecutive 4: 3 game bodies from Liverpool won a long way to cost Newcastle the title.

One was appointed the greatest game of the Premier League of the 90s, with the image of Keegan over the advertising when Liverpool achieved a deceased winner who was engraved in history.

Newcastle should have held the store and hold a point in Angeldd. Instead, she continued to attack and searched for a winner. Romance about pragmatism, that was the Keegan path.

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Newcastle burned hot, but quickly faded. Liverpool also won trophies under Gérard Hullier and Rafa Benítez if he could not win the league.

Newcastle faded into the background and under Mike Ashley’s possession between 2009 and 2021 back into irrelevance. Liverpool hardly noticed it unless they bought their players. For Peter Beardsley in 1987 you will read Andy Carroll in 2011 or Georginio Wijnaldum in 2016.

There was no rivalry to speak. Liverpool, like in the 1970s and 80s, competed and operated on a different level.

This changed in October 2021 when the public investment fund from Saudi Arabia (PIF) to Newcastle took over a controlling participation. A month later, Howe was appointed manager. What followed in the four years since then was a quick climb from the relegation fighters to the Champions League competitors and trophy winners.

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Newcastle’s victory over Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final in March was the highlight of a plan that was done by Howe and the property when he took over the job.

For the second time in three years, Newcastle will play and are a clear and current danger to the “Big Six” because they were under Keegan and just under Sir Bobby Robson under Sir Bobby Robson.

We have to be careful not to create fake rivalries in football and avoid combining healthy conflicts with conflicts, but there is no doubt that Liverpool was worked out by Newcastles Surge.

It began under the former Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp, who perceived the arrival of another club of an oil state according to the dramatic transformations of Manchester City and Paris St-Germain. He put them on her in press material conferences and scolded Newcastle’s former sports director Dan Ashworth because he was “no ceiling” over the club’s ambitions under PIF.

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Klopp, who preached his disciples, argued that Liverpool had an upper limit and could not spend as much money under the owners’ owners under the Fenway Sports Group.

In view of the profitability and sustainability rules of the Premier League (PSR), combined with the new ones who were brought in immediately after the takeover of Newcastle sponsoring business for the association, have been specially set up to prevent Newcastle from spending the money of its owner in the same way as City and Chelsea before them.

There was also tension on the touch. The relationships between Klopp, Howe and his assistant Jason Tindall were broken.

There was a lot of arguments when the teams played each other. It was Klopp, sources told Telegraph sportThe Howe’s infamous statement caused his Newcastle team to be there to take part in competitions and not to be liked.

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Liverpool remained the superior -Newcastle’s Carabao Cup victory for the first time that Howe had beaten her as a Newcastle manager -but there is no doubt that a new era had started.

That brings us to the here and now. When Newcastle Liverpool maintains the St. James’ Park, you will be driven by a mixture of anger and despite driven. It will be a melted boiler among the lights and the rest of the country, as it did in the 1990s, will be deleted.

There is bitterness and sharpness. Although Klopp’s successor Arne Slot in the way he talked about Newcastle, and especially howe, was not respectful for transfers. How could you deal with a new, up -and -coming threat than to weaken them by signing their best players.

Of all 19 transfers between Newcastle and Liverpool, none has created the kind of hostility to sign the latter attempt to sign Alexander Isak this summer.

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Last year, Liverpool was interested in signing Anthony Gordon, a Liverpool fan of young people. Since Newcastle was in danger in June, the board was desperate. The talks about the sale of Gordon were initiated by Newcastle, but an offer was never made. Newcastle solved her problems and when Liverpool returned later in summer, her approach was firmly rejected.

However, Gordon was affected. He wanted to sign for the club that he had supported as a boy. His head had been turned. Gordon was not the same player as the hangover from this disappointment last season.

Fast lead 12 months and it was only about Isak. A transfer saga that began on social media, whereby the new generation of transfer experts gradually filtered into the mainstream media in mid -July, when a rather strange story said that Liverpool let Newcastle be ready to pay 120 million pounds for ISAK if they were ready to leave it.

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Newcastle had claimed all year round that the Isak price would be more than 150 million GBP, and the Sweden national player was not for sale. The offer price was specially developed for sending this message – which came directly from PIF.

In the background, however, Liverpool knew that Isak wanted to go and wanted to play for her. Newcastle was defiant, as they had always planned, they had dug up and resisted.

What has happened since then is a complete breakdown in the relationship between the player and his employer, since Isak continues to demand that he can go.

After a bid of 110 million GBP had been rejected almost a month ago, Liverpool has withdrawn in view of the wildness of the rejection of Newcastle, but ISAK and his agent have done everything in their power to force his way.

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The striker is currently on strike, refuses to play and even published an explanation last week in which he claimed that promises were broken, and in the best interest of everyone was to let him go. Newcastle answered quickly and competed that promises were made and that a transfer in this window excluded in all the extent and purposes. The statement was cited by PIF.

From a Liverpool perspective, they didn’t do anything wrong, except for a player they admire they know who wants to play for them.

They are, sources emphasized, perfectly authorized to make an offer that reflects their own interpretation of its value and fair market value. Newcastle is entitled to reject it. It is not a conflict, just the business of football.

Newcastle, at least privately, perceives things quite differently. They believe that Liverpool has deliberately unsettled his player and that the agent encouraged ISAK with his tacit support to behave horribly to force them to sell far below their evaluation. Liverpool denies that they did something like that.

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Newcastle still believes that it is an attempt to get you to do something that you never intended this summer – sell Isak on cheap, weakening and strengthens a club that you now see as a rival.

If Liverpool had really withdrawn, would Isak still stick to the idea that the move before the deadline a day could happen?

This is the background that Newcastle plays Liverpool on Monday evening. Isak will not be involved, Newcastle will be considerably weaker on the field. He burned so many bridges that the path to salvation on Tyneside is very difficult. He insulted the club for which he still plays, and the manager who helped him transform him into one of the best strikers in Europe.

Howe’s team also has to face the player Hugo Ekikats. It is one of the strange quirks of this drama, which would have signed Ekitics for Newcastle in July, that they may be more open if they could leave Isak to Liverpool, especially if they had offered almost £ 150 million.

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Tensions are high, accusations have been raised and shown. Isak remains a Newcastle player, but his head and heart are no longer there. Due to the ditch and resistance, Newcastle stood to Liverpool and the idea of ​​player performance, but they were undoubtedly damaged through the whole matter. Howe described it on Friday as a situation for loose loses. If you were selling ISAK, you would be weaker, but an unfortunate and unmotivated player also carries great risks.

These feelings are unleashed in St. James’ Park. Legal or incorrectly, Newcastle supporters Liverpool are responsible for the fact that the Mess Howe and the Newcastle board tried all summer.

The drama and the excitement are back and Newcastle against Liverpool is converted into a new era of competition. Lean back and enjoy it.