{"id":242456,"date":"2025-07-06T10:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T10:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242456\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T10:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T10:33:15","slug":"transfer-news-live-liverpool-rejected-isak-as-man-utd-eye-shock-deal-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242456\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news LIVE: Liverpool rejected Isak as Man Utd eye shock deal | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/liverpool-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a>&#8216;s former director of research, Ian Graham, has explained that the Reds opted to sign Darwin Nunez over Alexander Isak after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/jurgen-klopp\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jurgen Klopp<\/a> made his preference for the Uruguayan known.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJurgen created a lot of success for the club, so it\u2019s understandable why it moved in that direction,\u201d Graham told the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy to talk about my colleagues persuading Jurgen [in 2017] that Mo Salah was the player to buy instead of Julian Brandt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2022, he signed Darwin Nunez instead of Alexander Isak. Both players, if you look at top young centre-forwards in Europe, they would be number one and two \u2014 or two and three but [Erling] Haaland was going to [Manchester] City and out of our price range.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJurgen preferred Nunez. It would be very churlish of me to say: \u2018It\u2019s terrible that Jurgen had his choice\u2019, when in the past Jurgen had been persuaded by me and my colleagues of a different choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it was still the case that we signed good players \u2014 in Nunez\u2019s case, one of the best young strikers in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8216;s former director of research, Ian Graham, has explained that the Reds opted to sign Darwin Nunez over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[6167,748,37199,393,94,4884,94265,179,423,11947,16,15,165],"class_list":{"0":"post-242456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-arsenal-fc","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-bryan-mbeumo","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-live-transfers","15":"tag-liverpool","16":"tag-manchester-united-fc","17":"tag-transfer-news-section","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-viktor-gyokeres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114805840625717101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242456","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=242456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}