The Liverpool executives who attend away matches vary between the likes of CEO Billy Hogan, club ambassadors Sir Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush (both former Newcastle employees), club secretary Danny Stanway, and chief legal and external affairs officer Jonathan Bamber.

There's only one way to deal with bullies - stand up to them. And that's exactly what Newcastle United have done by releasing a cool, calm and collected statement in the face of Alexander Isak's latest attempt to engineer a transfer away from St James' Park.