Alexander Isak to Newcastle for Liverpool?

Journalist Craig Hope has said that Liverpool have a very good chance of signing Alexander Isak from Premier League rivals Newcastle United in the summer transfer window. Newcastle want £150 million for the Sweden international striker, and Liverpool are ready to pay a British-record fee.

Hope said on his YouTube channel: “My information is that Liverpool are readying a British club record offer.

“Alexander Isak and his people know this, he’s at home on Tyneside nursing his thigh, but you guys read between the lines.”

“These are some of the conversations I’ve had this morning with people close to the situation.

“There is always a good time to sell a player and while the preference is to keep Alexander Isak, but Isak himself wants to move on, he doesn’t want to play in the UCL, he wants to win it.

“If Liverpool are going to do a deal this summer, they’re going to have to pay the money. They really are.

“There’s no, just because Isak wants to go, cheap deal to be done here. They’ve got to come up with that British record and then some. It’s got to be in the region of £150m. If that happens, do I think we’d see a deal and Isak will move? Yes, I do. And I know that some of his teammates suspect that too.

“I’m not going to sit on the fence here and I’m happy to be wrong, but do I think he will go? Yes, I think he probably will.

“A lot still needs to happen for that to be the case, but my latest information is that: Alexander Isak wants to go, Liverpool want him, they are readying a British record offer, even though that may involve selling one of Diaz or Nunez. If that’s the case, Newcastle have a decision to make.

“They’d rather not sell and find a way to keep the player, but it might just make sense all round to do the deal. So, that’s where we are.”