{"id":36936,"date":"2025-09-01T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36936\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:32:07","slug":"liverpool-agree-125m-deal-to-sign-alexander-isak-from-newcastle-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36936\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool agree \u00a3125m deal to sign Alexander Isak from Newcastle \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool <\/a>have agreed a British record \u00a3125 million (\u20ac144.25 million) deal to sign Alexander Isak<\/a> from Newcastle<\/a>. The Premier League<\/a> champions had a \u00a3110 million offer rejected in August and since then the 25-year-old Swedish international has not trained with or played for Newcastle, but in the final hours of the transfer window a deal has been reached to end the impasse.<\/p>\n

The striker is set to undergo a medical on Monday, with Newcastle relenting by accepting the player does not want to play for them any longer. <\/p>\n

Isak\u2019s signing took Liverpool\u2019s summer outlay to around \u00a3416 million (\u20ac480 million) and they kept spending after agreeing a \u00a335 million (\u20ac40. 5 million) for Crystal Palace and England centre back Marc Guehi.<\/p>\n

Palace captain Guehi, who scored in his side\u2019s 3-0 win at Aston Villa on Sunday, was having a medical in London ahead of the closure of the transfer window at 7pm.<\/p>\n

Guehi, who came through the ranks at Chelsea and had a loan spell at Swansea City before joining Palace in 2021, has been a fixture in the England squad since his first senior cap in 2022.<\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/b><\/a> manager Eddie Howe has not wasted any time replacing Isak, and added Brentford\u2019s Yoane Wissa in a \u00a355 million (\u20ac63.5 million) deal on Monday after the club record signing of Nick Woltemade from Stuttgart on Saturday for \u20ac80 million (\u00a369.35 million).<\/p>\n

Isak was left out of Newcastle\u2019s pre-season tour of Asia with what was said to be a thigh injury, but has been absent from the squad ever since and at one stage was training alone at his former club Real Sociedad.<\/p>\n

He has accused the club of breaking a commitment that he could leave if a suitable offer came from a big club \u2013 though that now looks to have changed, with a \u00a35 million loyalty payment taking the deal up to as high as \u00a3130 million.<\/p>\n

He will become Liverpool\u2019s eighth first-team signing of the summer, marking the second time they have broken their own transfer record following the \u20ac127 million (\u00a3110 million) capture of Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n

In all their summer outlay now stands at around \u00a3416 million (\u20ac480 million).<\/p>\n

Wissa\u2019s move to Newcastle comes 24 hours after the 28-year-old issued a statement on social media accusing Brentford of \u201cunduly standing in his way\u201d of a move to St James\u2019 Park. Brentford rejected previous offers from Newcastle worth about \u00a340 million.<\/p>\n

Wissa has scored 49 goals in 149 appearances, including 19 in the Premier League last season, since joining Brentford in a \u00a38.5 million deal from Lorient in 2021.<\/p>\n

Liverpool could raise more funds on deadline day by selling Harvey Elliott and Joe Gomez. Aston Villa<\/b><\/a> have emerged as a potential destination for Elliott, whose first-team chances are likely to be squeezed further by Isak\u2019s arrival, but they might need to sell Emi Buend\u00eda first.<\/p>\n

Milan made a \u20ac15 million offer for Gomez on Sunday night but, with complications arising in Liverpool\u2019s pursuit of Marc Gu\u00e9hi, the Premier League champions would be reluctant to sell the versatile defender at this stage.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Aston Villa are in discussions with Manchester United<\/a> over a deal for Jadon Sancho. The winger is out of favour at Old Trafford but has admirers at Villa Park. The structure of the proposal is unclear, with Villa thought to be pursuing a loan move. Sancho spent last season on loan at Chelsea and has not played for United in more than 12 months.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the 25-year-old rejected a move to join Evan Ferguson at Roma, which triggered the Serie A club signing Leon Bailey on loan from Villa earlier this window. Goalkeeper Emi Mart\u00ednez was omitted from Villa\u2019s squad on Sunday amid interest from United, but the Red Devils have decided instead to go for Royal Antwerp\u2019s Senne Lammens for a \u20ac21m plus add-ons deal.<\/p>\n

Lammens was due to travel to Manchester on Monday afternoon prior to signing a five-year contract. United consider the 23-year-old, who has nine caps for Belgium\u2019s Under-21 side, a prospect for the future who can also challenge Andr\u00e9 Onana orAltay Bayindir for the No 1 spot immediately.<\/p>\n

Manchester City<\/b><\/a> <\/b>have agreed the \u20ac14 million transfer of Ederson to Fenerbahce but the deal is dependent on signing Gianluigi Donnarumma from Paris Saint-Germain for around \u20ac35 million, or another elite goalkeeper as his replacement.<\/p>\n

A deal is understood to be in place regarding Ederson\u2019s move to the Turkish club but City are intent on securing Donnarumma\u2019s arrival first. If the Italian cannot be secured the Brazilian will not be sold unless another top-class keeper can be signed. As the window closes at 7pm this may be unlikely.<\/p>\n

Ederson, who is 32 and has a year left on his contract, has become unsettled at City while Donnarumma has been deemed surplus to requirements by Luis Enrique at PSG, the Spaniard signing Lille\u2019s Lucas Chevalier last month to be his new No 1.<\/p>\n

Tottenham<\/b> have moved quickly to get a straight loan over the line for the Paris Saint-Germain forward, Randal Kolo Muani, who is on his way to have a medical at the club. Spurs, who would have no obligation to sign him next summer, were interested in January and they have capitalised on Juventus\u2019s inability to agree a permanent deal for him. The 26-year-old went to Juventus on loan in January and they have spent what feels like the whole summer trying to sign him only to admit defeat over the weekend. They have moved instead for Lois Openda from RB Leipzig.<\/p>\n

Thomas Frank has Richarlison and Dominic Solanke as his centre-forward options, although the latter is struggling to shake the ankle injury that ruined his pre-season.<\/p>\n

Sunderland <\/b>have agreed a fee of around \u00a320 million with Ajax for Brian Brobbey. The 23-year-old Netherlands striker is on a flight to Newcastle from Amsterdam and will have a medical later this morning.<\/p>\n

On Sunday evening, Sunderland agreed to a request from Chelsea to recall their loanee striker Marc Guiu to Stamford Bridge in the wake of Liam Delap\u2019s injury. Brobbey will become Sunderland\u2019s 13th signing of a very busy summer.<\/p>\n

Ireland international forward Michael Obafemi has joined German second-tier side VfL Bochum on a season-long loan from Burnley<\/b>.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Dubliner spent last season with Championship side Plymouth Argyle, scoring two goals in 32 appearances, 15 of which were starts.<\/p>\n

Burnley are set to complete the signing of midfielder Florentino Lu\u00eds from Benfica on an initial loan deal. The Clarets will pay \u20ac2 million (\u00a31.7 million) upfront with a \u20ac24 million (\u00a320.8 million) obligation to buy next summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have agreed a British record \u00a3125 million (\u20ac144.25 million) deal to sign Alexander Isak from Newcastle. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1268,4699,19414,18,19,17,560,20,2353,1270,795,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-36936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-aston-villa","10":"tag-chelsea-fc","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-liverpool-fc","15":"tag-manchester-united","16":"tag-manchester-city","17":"tag-newcastle-united","18":"tag-premier-league","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}