{"id":364251,"date":"2025-08-22T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364251\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:04:13","slug":"premier-league-news-conferences-howe-isak-saga-is-a-lose-lose-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364251\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League news conferences: Howe – Isak saga is a ‘lose-lose situation’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Flabbergasted if Liverpool don’t make Isak approach’published at 09:28 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

09:28 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Sami Mokbel<\/strong>
BBC Sport Senior football correspondent<\/p>\n

Nothing can happen before the game. But, I’d be flabbergasted if Liverpool don’t make some sort of approach next week for Alexander Isak.<\/p>\n

In my mind there was no way Liverpool didn’t know he would release that statement. So, after he did that I can’t see any other outcome but Liverpool making another offer or some sort of approach for him next week.<\/p>\n

Whether that’s successful or not will depend on the level of money they’re prepared to put into the pot. If Liverpool have to continue to up their offer, then there’s only a certain amount of money to go round.<\/p>\n

The more they put into the transfer fee, the less you’d imagine they’d be able to pay Isak at Anfield. There’s certainly a catch 22 situation there.<\/p>\n

I can’t imagine a situation where he sits out an entire season. It sounds absolutely ludicrous to me for someone in the prime of their career to throw away a season because he didn’t get his dream move.<\/p>\n

Sami Mokbel was speaking to the Football Daily podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Flabbergasted if Liverpool don’t make Isak approach’published at 09:28 British Summer Time 09:28 BST Sami MokbelBBC Sport Senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-364251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115071619240554355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364251","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=364251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}