The way forward for Alexander Isak continues to be a sizzling speaking level amid intensifying hyperlinks with a transfer to Liverpool.
On Monday, Sky reporter Sacha Tavolieri claimed that the Reds are getting ready to submit a gap provide of £100m for the Newcastle striker, who’s valued at £150m by his membership however could be very eager on becoming a member of Arne Slot’s facet.
Lewis Steele subsequently stated that the 25-year-old is ‘determined’ for a transfer to Merseyside, and the Sweden worldwide was conspicuous by his absence from the Magpies’ promotional video revealing their new away equipment, which dropped on social media at the moment.
Additional doubt has now been case over Isak’s future on Tyneside, following studies which emerged this afternoon.
Isak reportedly goes AWOL at Newcastle
In response to Graeme Bailey for TBR Soccer, the striker – who hasn’t travelled with Eddie Howe’s squad on their pre-season tour to Asia as a consequence of a minor thigh drawback – did not report at Newcastle’s coaching floor and is as an alternative engaged on his personal health programme at residence.
The 25-year-old is taken into account to have gone AWOL and is starting to ‘drive the difficulty’ as he seemingly pushes for an exit from St James’ Park.
The switch insider claimed that Liverpool are ready to supply £120m for the Swede and consider that the Magpies would settle for such an quantity, with Reds sporting director Richard Hughes having fun with a superb working relationship with Howe from their mutual time at Bournemouth.
Newcastle exit appears more and more possible for Isak as Liverpool lie in wait
If certainly Isak has successfully finished a disappearing act on Tyneside, it’s more and more onerous to see him staying put at Newcastle, and it now feels as if he’s beginning to flip the screw on presumably engineering a switch to Anfield.
His omission from the Magpies’ away equipment launch video could have been coincidental, however given the present context, it has inevitably been interpreted as a telltale signal that he may very well be on the transfer imminently.
Howe’s facet have maintained a public stance of ‘not on the market’, however these obvious current occasions may but immediate a change in that pondering in the event that they really feel privately that they’d be combating an more and more uphill battle to maintain maintain of the striker.
That, after all, may all play into Liverpool’s arms and should even assist them to get a deal finished for lower than what they could have initially envisaged. The prior relationship between Hughes and the Newcastle supervisor is also an advantageous issue for the Reds.
This saga nonetheless has loads of mileage to journey – the Merseysiders haven’t even made a proper provide as of but – however the tide seems to be inching additional in direction of LFC getting their man and making yet one more highly effective assertion of intent in the summertime switch window.
