{"id":309316,"date":"2025-08-01T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309316\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:10:10","slug":"newcastle-reject-liverpools-bid-for-alexander-isak-and-hold-firm-for-150m-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309316\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle reject Liverpool\u2019s bid for Alexander Isak and hold firm for \u00a3150m | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newcastle have rejected a formal bid from Liverpool<\/a> to sign Alexander Isak, with the Premier League champions\u2019 offer way below their \u00a3150m valuation of the forward.<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s first official offer for the Sweden international is believed to have been for less than the \u00a3120m suggested when Richard Hughes, sporting director at Anfield, made an informal enquiry a fortnight ago. Newcastle value their prized asset at a British transfer record \u00a3150m and remain reluctant to sell the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n

Isak\u2019s stance since Hughes\u2019 enquiry, however, has encouraged Liverpool to step up their pursuit of the player. The club have spent almost \u00a3300m so far this summer, including a \u00a379m deal to sign long-time Newcastle target Hugo Ekitik\u00e9<\/a>. But with \u00a3190m recouped in sales since Hughes arrived in June 2024, plus healthy revenues from their title triumph and return to the Champions League, Liverpool are in a position to break their transfer record for a second time this summer after signing Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen for an initial \u00a3100m in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Isak did not travel on Newcastle\u2019s pre-season tour of Asia. Newcastle attributed his absence to a minor thigh injury, but the striker has also informed the club that he wishes to explore his options this summer and has been training at former club Real Sociedad this week. There has also been no progress on a new contract for Isak at Newcastle.<\/p>\n

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Isak, signed from Sociedad for \u00a360m in 2022, still has three years remaining on his contract at St James\u2019 Park. Newcastle have insisted he is not for sale but have been attempting to sign other top level strikers this summer, so far without success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle have rejected a formal bid from Liverpool to sign Alexander Isak, with the Premier League champions\u2019 offer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-309316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114953677966017708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309316","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=309316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}