{"id":307436,"date":"2025-07-31T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307436\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:20:09","slug":"slot-says-liverpool-will-target-quality-players-amid-links-to-alexander-isak-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307436\/","title":{"rendered":"Slot says Liverpool will target quality players amid links to Alexander Isak | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">With Liverpool being heavily linked to a move for Alexander Isak, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/arne-slot\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arne Slot<\/a> said the club would never hesitate to sign a quality player if the chance presents itself. The Premier League champions have already spent close to \u00a3300m this summer and are expected to bid for the Sweden striker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Liverpool are longstanding admirers of Isak and have funds available from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/jul\/30\/luis-diaz-completes-655m-move-from-liverpool-to-bayern-munich\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a365.5m sale of Luis D\u00edaz to Bayern Munich<\/a>. Isak is known to be keen on moving to Anfield and it was confirmed by Real Sociedad on Thursday that he is \u201cworking with his trainers\u201d at the club\u2019s Zubieta base after missing Newcastle\u2019s tour of Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The 25-year-old has three years left on his contract and Newcastle would want \u00a3150m for their prized asset. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/liverpool\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a>, it is believed, do not want to pay more than \u00a3120m. They will almost certainly have to break the British transfer record to get their man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cI always say, another thing about Liverpool is that if we see a chance in the market we never hesitate to bring someone in,\u201d said Slot as Liverpool left Japan after their pre-season tour of the far east. \u201cIt\u2019s about quality and we have already made some very good signings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">This summer Liverpool have brought in Florian Wirtz and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/may\/30\/liverpool-allow-trent-alexander-arnold-to-join-real-madrid-early-in-10m-deal\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> from Bayer Leverkusen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/jun\/20\/florian-wirtz-liverpool-bayer-leverkusen-club-record-116m-deal#:~:text=Liverpool%20have%20confirmed%20the%20signing,the%20most%20expensive%20British%20transfer.\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the former for a club-record \u00a3100m<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/jun\/20\/liverpool-agree-deal-to-sign-milos-kerkez-from-bournemouth-for-40m\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milos Kerkez <\/a>from Bournemouth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/jul\/23\/liverpool-sign-hugo-ekitike-79m-deal-fending-off-late-manchester-united-bid\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hugo Ekitik\u00e9 <\/a>from Eintracht Frankfurt and the goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili from Valencia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cIt\u2019s the way this club has worked over several years: targeting a specific player who we think can strengthen the squad and can bring us quality,\u201d said Slot. \u201cThen we try to bring him in. \u201cWe do spend, but if we spend, then we always need to recoup some money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">D\u00edaz\u2019s move to Germany means Liverpool have raised more than \u00a3190m from player sales since Richard Hughes became sporting director in June 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Liverpool being heavily linked to a move for Alexander Isak, Arne Slot said the club would never&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-307436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114949706495123828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307436","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=307436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}