{"id":190390,"date":"2025-09-01T00:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190390\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T00:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:50:11","slug":"liverpool-reach-alexander-isak-agreement-with-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190390\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool reach Alexander Isak agreement with Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool have reached an agreement to sign Alexander Isak from Newcastle United.<\/p>\n

The deal is worth \u00a3130million ($176m) to Newcastle due to solidarity payments and will cost Liverpool \u00a3125m. It will set a new Premier League transfer record, surpassing Chelsea\u2019s \u00a3106m signing of Enzo Fernandez from Benfica in January 2023. Liverpool\u2019s purchase of Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen earlier this summer amounted to a total package of \u00a3116m, with an initial fee of \u00a3100m and \u00a316m in potential bonuses.<\/p>\n

Isak will undergo a medical on Monday before completing his move on a six-year deal.<\/p>\n

The Athletic reported earlier on Sunday that talks regarding Isak\u2019s potential Liverpool move were ramping up ahead of the transfer deadline.<\/p>\n

The reigning Premier League champions previously saw an offer of a \u00a3110m<\/a> for the 25-year-old rejected by the north-east club, having previously indicated their willingness to do a deal for \u00a3120m.<\/p>\n

Isak did not feature in Newcastle\u2019s pre-season, nor any of the club\u2019s first three Premier League games of the campaign, one of which was a 3-2 defeat to Liverpool at St James\u2019 Park.<\/p>\n

Newcastle\u2019s stance had consistently been that the Sweden international was not for sale but sources with knowledge of the situation, not permitted to speak publicly, indicate they have been proceeding in recent days under the impression the move will happen.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, they completed the club-record \u20ac75m signing of Nick Woltemade<\/a> from Stuttgart and have seen two bids of \u00a350m and \u00a355m for Wolverhampton Wanderers\u2019 Jorgen Strand Larsen<\/a> rejected. They previously pursued Hugo Ekitike before he ultimately opted to join Liverpool.<\/p>\n

\"Woltemade<\/p>\n

Woltemade is Newcastle\u2019s new record signing (Jack Thomas\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Athletic first reported in July<\/a> that Isak wanted to leave Newcastle this summer, which led to his absence from the pre-season friendly at Celtic and tour to Asia. The striker trained individually with his former club, Real Sociedad, during that time and never returned to training with his team-mates back at Newcastle.<\/p>\n

On August 19, Isak published a statement<\/a> in which he said his relationship with Newcastle \u201ccan\u2019t continue\u201d. In response, Newcastle released a statement of their own, saying that the criteria for a sale had not been met and they remained open to Isak rejoining the squad.<\/p>\n

Before the defeat by Liverpool on August 25, a boardroom-level delegation \u2014 including Jamie Reuben, the club\u2019s minority owner, and a contingent from the Public Investment Fund (PIF), including Jacobo Solis, who is on the board of directors \u2014 visited Isak at his home for talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the Liverpool game, Howe called for \u201cclarity\u201d and said he is focussed on the players \u201cthat want to play\u201d for the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve not been party to talks on this for a long time now. I\u2019ve been preparing the team and giving all my energy to the players that want to play for\u00a0Newcastle. I think that is where my energy is best put at the moment,\u201d Howe said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want clarity, we want to move forward, we want the narrative to change because we\u2019re in the start of the season now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isak scored 27 goals in 42 appearances for Eddie Howe\u2019s side last season, only finishing behind Mohamed Salah in the Premier League goalscoring charts.<\/p>\n

Liverpool have spent more than \u00a3250m this summer with Ekitike, Wirtz, Milos Kerkez, Jeremie Frimpong and Giovanni Leoni all arriving on Merseyside.<\/p>\n

They have opened their title defence with three wins, 4-2 over Bournemouth on August 15, the 3-2 stoppage-time victory over Newcastle, and a 1-0 victory over Arsenal earlier on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u2018It was Isak or no-one for Liverpool\u2019<\/p>\n

Analysis by Liverpool correspondent James Pearce<\/p>\n

Having played the waiting game throughout August, Liverpool have now reignited their pursuit of Alexander Isak.<\/p>\n

It was telling in recent weeks that they didn\u2019t move on to a Plan B after seeing their initial offer of \u00a3110m for the Swedish striker turned down.<\/p>\n

It was Isak or no-one for the Premier League champions. They sat tight hoping that Newcastle\u2019s stance would change, in the knowledge that Isak was desperate to make the move to Anfield.<\/p>\n

And now there\u2019s a deal to be struck they have moved quickly to try and make Isak the most expensive signing in the history of British football.<\/p>\n

They believe he is the most complete No 9 around and Isak will give them the greater depth they crave at the top end of the field.<\/p>\n

\u2018Howe must repair damage from draining saga\u2019<\/p>\n

Analysis by Newcastle correspondent Chris Waugh<\/p>\n

There is an argument to be made that Isak\u2019s time on Tyneside had become untenable \u2014 largely due to his own actions. After he essentially went on strike, infuriating the fanbase as well as some of his own team-mates, there would have been significant collateral damage moving forward, even if Eddie Howe\u2019s stated confidence that he could reintegrate Isak had proved prescient.<\/p>\n

However, it is hard to shake off the impression that Newcastle have buckled at the last. They have held an extremely strong stance all summer, from the ownership down, insisting repeatedly that Isak was \u201cnot for sale\u201d. Even their statement in response to Isak\u2019s incendiary public remarks stressed they would only sanction an exit if \u201cconditions\u201d were met, one of which was their \u00a3150million asking price.<\/p>\n

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Howe now has damage to repair at St James\u2019 Park (Stu Forster\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Woltemade may have joined, satisfying one of those stipulations, but a second striker is yet to arrive (even if Newcastle have continued to pursue other centre-forward targets and may still bring in another). Liverpool are seemingly going to get Isak for significantly less than the figure Newcastle were demanding, even if it is still an eye-watering fee.<\/p>\n

Howe has claimed for weeks that ultimately the decision lies with the ownership and, while Jamie Reuben, the minority investor, was among the delegation who went to Isak\u2019s house last Monday, it is the majority stakeholders, PIF, who determine such huge calls. Newcastle\u2019s apparently unequivocal rhetoric has, in the end, proven to have been at least partly hyperbolic.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the club will be better off for putting an end to this epic, rather than allowing the harm to bleed into the season by leaving Howe to be asked about Isak at every press conference. But they have already allowed the situation to dominate their entire summer, when if this was going to be the outcome, maybe it should have been agreed and resolved weeks ago to allow everyone to move on and focus on the future.<\/p>\n

As usual, it is Howe who must repair the damage from this draining saga.<\/p>\n

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