Eddie Howe has forged additional doubt on Alexander Isak’s future amid Liverpool’s switch pursuit.
The Sweden worldwide created a media fuss after opting to keep away from the Mapies’ pre-season tour of Asia, and in addition practice away from the membership at his previous outfit’s, Actual Sociedad, services.
The Merseysiders, for his or her half, have made clear their intent to signal the 25-year-old with a £110m bid, which was rejected by the northeast-based outfit.
Isak has since returned to coach at Newcastle, although it nonetheless stays to be seen whether or not he’ll take an energetic half within the membership’s pre-2025/26 marketing campaign preparations.
Eddie Howe suggests Alexander Isak might snub Newcastle coaching
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The bridge between the No.14 and present membership Newcastle doesn’t look set to be mended anytime quickly.
Eddie Howe’s newest feedback on the switch saga enveloping the Magpies had been removed from reassuring on the matter of the centre-forward’s return to coaching.
In feedback relayed by Ben Jacobs on X (previously Twitter), the ex-Bournemouth boss admitted he didn’t know if Alexander Isak would play a component in additional pre-season preparations.
🗣️ Eddie Howe on whether or not Alexander Isak will return to coaching: “After all, I would like him to, however I don’t know at this second. Different individuals have been coping with the state of affairs again residence.” pic.twitter.com/uNHRIGesGH
– Ben Jacobs (@jacobsben) August 3, 2025
Will Liverpool return with an improved bid?
It’s laborious to think about Liverpool dusting their fingers after a primary bid – which did not attain Newcastle’s £150m asking worth – and internally saying, “Ah, properly, we tried!”
Put merely, we do suspect that the membership will are available with an improved provide; the massive query is when.
The Magpies can trace all they like that they’re planning on pairing switch goal Benjamin Sesko with Isak (a lot as they claimed they’d hoped to do with Hugo Ekitike). But it surely appears plainly apparent at this stage that Newcastle intend to signal the Slovenian as a alternative for his or her unsettled high asset.
Success in that pursuit (though not assured amid rival curiosity from Manchester United) would certainly expedite the Swede’s summer time swap to Liverpool.
That’s assuming, in fact, that we will handle to search out some center floor with Newcastle over a possible charge.
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