{"id":38224,"date":"2025-09-02T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/38224\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:49:10","slug":"miguel-delaney-alexander-isak-transfer-proves-liverpool-have-changed-the-premier-leagues-power-dynamic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/38224\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Delaney: Alexander Isak transfer proves Liverpool have changed the Premier League\u2019s power dynamic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Alexander Isak\u2019s great gambit, and the playbook he followed, eventually paid off. No one can say he was badly advised now. He got the move he wanted.' Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5fdeb6bc-5203-43a1-b7aa-465aed5dca34.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;Alexander Isak\u2019s great gambit, and the playbook he followed, eventually paid off. No one can say he was badly advised now. He got the move he wanted.&#8217; Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is a show of where power lies. That\u2019s not just in how Liverpool finally added the signing of Alexander Isak to a statement 1-0 victory over Arsenal, but also the manner in which the deal was finally struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was, to quote someone who said similar about the Super League, \u201can ownership thing\u201d. Fenway Sports Group (FSG) have a good relationship with the Public Investment Fund (PIF), going right back through LIV Golf, and a deal was eventually struck. That is the level we\u2019re talking about. Business and geopolitics came into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Alexander Isak\u2019s great gambit, and the playbook he followed, eventually paid off. No one can say he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,1534,7357,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-38224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-liverpool-football-club","12":"tag-miguel-delaney","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38224","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=38224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}