Why Liverpool still want Alexander Isak this summer

Alexander Isak is the next Mohamed Salah. He just needs to become a Liverpool player to prove it.

While Liverpool’s summer spending amounts to 270 million pounds Sterling so far on Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong, sources have told ESPN that the Premier League champions continue to continue for Isak despite Newcastle rejecting a first investigation two weeks ago.

If the wheels are starting to hand over Liverpool’s favor and a agreement for Isak suddenly becomes a real possibility, this will likely imply costs in the region of 150 million pounds sterling to sign Sweden – costs that will have their transfer expenses since the end of last season beyond 400 million pounds Sterling. This is an amazing number for a club that has traditionally been exceeded by the rivals of Premier League Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United, but there are two reasons why Liverpool is ready to break the bank for Isak in the middle of their well -filled summer.

First of all, they can afford – an explanation follows – and secondly, sources have declared to ESPN that this transfer window had been identified by the hierarchy of Anfield as the one in which they build their team in the next five years and Isak is the key to this.

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With Salah, now 33 years old, engaging in a new two -year contract this summer, there is an awareness in Liverpool that their talismanic striker must be replaced at some point in the near future. And while the figures for Isak are potentially huge, by signing it now, Liverpool will see its replacement Salah locked up, and the task of replacing the old line before Salah-Sadio Mané-Roberto Firmino will be finished.

In the space of a window, at a possible cost of 350 million pounds sterling, the signatures of Wirtz, Ekitike and (if they obtain their wish) Isak will give Liverpool their unit of attack during the next five years.

The uncertainty about the future of Isak in Newcastle continues to grow due to its absence from the club’s pre-season tour in Singapore and South Korea. ESPN reported last week that Isak clearly said he wanted to consider the options to move away from St James’ Park. Liverpool’s next decision in their quest for the 25 -year -old woman will decide if he moves to Anfield this summer or if Newcastle rejects a prospect that the player leaves the club when he is still three years on his contract.

Newcastle manager Eddie Howe said a little over a week ago after leaving Isak of a friendly pre-season match against Celtic in Glasgow, that he was “confident” that his star striker would still be at the club when the transfer window will end on September 1, but speaking to Singapore this weekend, Howe has hinted that the future of Isak.

With Newcastle still forced by the rules of profit and sustainability of the Premier League (PSR), despite the ownership of the public investment fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF), the club had trouble signaling the players this summer. Only Anthony Elaga of Nottingham Forest and the 18-year-old South Korean South Korean winger was added to Howe’s Squad; For those who draw the financial levers from St James’, an agreement of 150 million pounds sterling for Isak would give Newcastle the possibility of spending big, although at the cost of losing its best player.

Newcastle recruitment difficulties offer encouragement in Liverpool. Managers and supporters generally adopt an emotional vision of the players who come and go, but the owners and the financial services put the business first and at some point, it will become practically impossible for Newcastle to reject a huge offer.

For Liverpool, however, the opportunity window is currently. Isak is open to a movement, and they have the funds to get there. As Premier League champions, Liverpool is also the most attractive national destination – something that may not be the case in 12 months.

So, how does Liverpool have the funds given their already gigantic expenses on new signatures? Liverpool spent only 35 million pounds sterling last summer – 10 million pounds sterling for Federico Chiesa and 25 million pounds sterling for goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili, who spent last season on loan in Valencia – but collected 40 million pounds Sterling by unloading the defender Sepp Van Den Berg and the playmaker Fábio Carvalho Brentford.

This summer, Liverpool has already banned 52 million pounds sterling after the releases of Jarell Quansah (Bayer Leverkusen), Caoimhín Kelleher (Brentford) and Trent Alexander-Arnold (Real Madrid), while an agreement of 65.5 million pounds Sterling to unload Luis Díaz in Bayern Munich is almost concluded. When you add the 82.7 million pounds sterling that Liverpool won in the Champions League last season and 174.9 million pounds sterling in the Premier League victory, it is clear that the club has a strong financial height, the 270 million sterling pounds already spent well counted by the money that arrives.

If, as expected, Darwin Núñez, Harvey Elliott and Chiesa are also moved before September 1, Liverpool will probably increase 80 million additional sterling pounds. This would mean that a move of 150 million pounds sterling for Isak would not put the club nowhere to miss its PSR limits. But there is also the factor that Liverpool makes long -term investment in a summer. It is unlikely that they should rethink so large next year.

So, if Isak arrives and adds to those who are already signed, Liverpool will have the test of attack options and will also give their fans the attractive perspective of Isak and Salah playing together until the new man finally eclipses him as the main man. To make it happen, Liverpool must unlock the door to the signing of Isak, but it is not as complicated as it could look like it from the outside.