{"id":203608,"date":"2025-06-21T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203608\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T22:29:09","slug":"liverpool-can-get-alexander-isak-by-passing-up-on-70m-free-signing-as-player-makes-call-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203608\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool can get Alexander Isak by passing up on \u00a370m ‘free signing’ as player makes call | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool may have a cheeky tactic up their sleeve that could be used to land a blockbuster transfer for Alexander Isak. After the \u00a3116million signing of Florian Wirtz, the addition of a world-class striker would surely elevate Arne Slot<\/a>\u2019s side well above their rivals for the next few years.<\/p>\n

A move for Isak is likely to cost Liverpool<\/a> another nine-figure fee. Newcastle<\/a> are determined to keep their star player after securing Champions League qualification in the final few weeks of last season. However, Liverpool<\/a> could attempt to get into Newcastle<\/a>\u2019s good books by stepping away from their pursuit of Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi. Both clubs have been linked with the England international, who has a year remaining on his contract.<\/p>\n

Palace are understood to value Guehi at around \u00a370million, but TeamTalk<\/a> report that \u00a345m could be enough as an opening offer to bring the Eagles hierarchy to the negotiating table. The Guardian<\/a> report that the 24-year-old is willing to see out the remainder of his contract if the right deal does not present itself.<\/p>\n

It is claimed that Guehi will not rush into a decision on his future and may choose to run down his contract at Palace, before exploring his options as a free agent in 12 months\u2019 time. If that is the case, Liverpool<\/a> may have the perfect tactic to help them secure an even better deal.<\/p>\n

In a cunning plan, the Premier League champions could end their interest in Guehi in an attempt to present Newcastle<\/a> with a free run at the 23-cap international. That, in turn, could please Newcastle<\/a> and sweeten their stance on Isak\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

It is unclear whether Liverpool<\/a> would decide to do that, but it could be their best chance of landing their top striker target. Despite winning the Premier League, Slot\u2019s centre-forward options struggled for regular goals and an upgrade could help fire them to successive top-flight titles.<\/p>\n

Slot is eager to remain ahead of Arsenal<\/a> and Manchester City<\/a>, who have also strengthened the squads that desperately required reinforcements. Liverpool<\/a> have added Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong, and could yet sign Milos Kerkez.<\/p>\n

With Ibrahima Konate remaining as Virgil van Dijk\u2019s first-choice centre-back partner, the centre-forward role is the position that most needs improvement. A clever plan involving Guehi could entice Newcastle<\/a> to offload Isak to Merseyside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool may have a cheeky tactic up their sleeve that could be used to land a blockbuster transfer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[9261,748,393,94,4884,179,763,11492,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-203608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-liverpool-fc","15":"tag-newcastle-united-fc","16":"tag-transfer-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114723721318937935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}