Newcastle finally accepted on Monday 1is September, a record offer of Liverpool for the transfer of the Swedish striker Alexander Isak. After several weeks of showdown, and just a few hours before the transfer window, the two clubs agreed on the sum of 130 million pounds (150 million euros), bonus included, according to The Athletic. This is the most important transfer in the history of the Premier League. “The wait was worth it”commented the Liverpuldian club on X (ex-Twitter).
Alexander Isak, 25, spent his medical visit the same day, before formally committing for six years. The Swedish international with 52 selections, who had another three years of contract in Newcastle, refused to play since the club, which excluded to sell it, had declined, at the beginning of August, an offer of Liverpool estimated at more than 125 million euros. He had not participated in the preseason, nor in the first three games of the Newcastle Premier League, whose defeat (2-3) against Liverpool, Monday, August 25, in St James’Park.
Saturday, August 30, the club in northeast of England offered the services of the German center-center Nick Woltemade, 23, from Stuttgart, for an estimated amount between 75 million and 90 million euros. An operation that has undoubtedly released the Isak file.
Frantic transfer window
The Swedish number 9 had joined the Magpies from the Real Sociedad in 2022 for almost 70 million euros. Very versatile, powerful and elusive, Alexander Isak scored 23 goals and made six assists in the Premier League during last season (for 62 goals since he played in England).
Carried by his scorer, Newcastle qualified for the Champions League by finishing in fifth place in the English championship. Alexander Isak scored the goal of victory in the English League Cup final, won against Liverpool in Wembley (2-1), on March 16, winning the first Newcastle National Cup for seventy years.
The arrival of the Swedish striker concludes the frantic transfer window of the Mersey’s edges club. According to the sums advanced by the English media BBC and The GuardianLiverpool spent the unprecedented sum of 416 million pounds (481 million euros) during the transfer market, with the arrivals in particular of Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong. Enough to place the reigns, reigning champions, among the favorites of the season, in England and in the Champions League.
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