{"id":138430,"date":"2025-08-12T01:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/138430\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T01:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:42:10","slug":"new-isak-price-tag-for-reds-breakthrough-as-increasingly-likely-outcome-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/138430\/","title":{"rendered":"New Isak price tag for Reds &#8216;breakthrough&#8217; as &#8216;increasingly likely&#8217; outcome revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have been told the reduced price which \u2018may yet offer a breakthrough\u2019 to sign Alexander Isak from Newcastle as the \u201cincreasingly likely\u201d outcome has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/alexander-isak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isak<\/a><\/strong> has made clear his desire to leave Newcastle this summer, with his heart set on a move to Liverpool, who saw a \u00a3110m bid for the striker swiftly rejected by the Magpies at the start of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old is still training away from the rest of his teammates despite their first Premier League game of the season coming on Saturday against Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds are likely to bid again but only when the Geordies have a replacement lined up and are willing to seriously negotiate a price with Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer expert <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-bid-isak-next-72-hours-newcastle-romano-reveals-not-giving-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Liverpool are \u201cnot giving up\u201d<\/a><\/strong> on a deal to sign Isak and that the Reds \u201cmaintain their confidence in making a deal happen\u201d for the Newcastle striker.<\/p>\n<p>Romano said on his YouTube channel:\u00a0\u201cLiverpool are not giving up. They feel that Newcastle are still very active in the market to find a striker because they know Isak is not changing his mind. Alexander Isak is not changing his mind, Isak has no intention to return to a normal conversation with Newcastle over a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey maintain their confidence in making a deal happen for Isak. Let\u2019s follow the story but it remains a concrete opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/arteta-sacked-liverpool-flop-chelsea-win-the-league-knee-jerk-25-26-predictions-based-on-pre-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Arteta sacked, Liverpool flop, Chelsea win the league: knee-jerk 25\/26 predictions based on pre-season<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-arse-kicking-community-shield-marc-guehi-mailbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Was this \u2018arse-kicking Liverpool needed\u2019 to go and get Marc Guehi?<\/strong><\/a><br \/><strong>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-van-dijk-transfer-plea-newcastle-told-move-on-isak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Van Dijk makes Liverpool transfer plea as Newcastle are told to \u2018move on\u2019 from Isak<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And <strong><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/newcastle-united-hand-alexander-isak-32239607\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle Live have offered Liverpool hope of securing the Swede<\/a><\/strong> for less than the reported \u00a3150m Newcastle want, claiming \u2018others on the agent circuit have suggested that \u00a3130m plus add ons may yet offer a breakthrough\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/live-blog\/11743\/12476234\/transfer-centre-live-football-transfer-news-updates-and-rumours\" target=\"_blank\">But Sky Sports News\u2019 Keith Downie<\/a><\/strong> believes it\u2019s \u201cincreasingly likely\u201d Isak will be staying at Newcastle this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s becoming a bit of a toxic situation, not what Newcastle want ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEddie Howe says he doesn\u2019t see it changing ahead of the trip to Villa Park next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to see anything definitive to this situation until the transfer window is closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiverpool have made one bid which was flatly rejected, and Newcastle will only allow him to leave if they receive a huge offer they can\u2019t refuse \u2013 and then, only if they can get a ready-made replacement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like the options for Newcastle are very thin on the ground after they missed out on Benjamin Sesko, so I think as the days go on it\u2019s becoming increasingly likely Isak remains a Newcastle player this window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of bridges are going to have to be mended, because the Newcastle fans are not happy with what they\u2019ve seen from Isak\u2019s conduct in the last couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have been told the reduced price which \u2018may yet offer a breakthrough\u2019 to sign Alexander Isak from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[3678,204,215,16863,50,221,62,9656,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-138430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-front-page","10":"tag-liverpool","11":"tag-newcastle-united","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uncategorized","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115013258098616600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}