{"id":36383,"date":"2025-09-01T23:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/alexander-isak-transfer-liverpool-agree-british-record-125m-deal-for-newcastle-striker-on-deadline-day\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:40:15","slug":"alexander-isak-transfer-liverpool-agree-british-record-125m-deal-for-newcastle-striker-on-deadline-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/alexander-isak-transfer-liverpool-agree-british-record-125m-deal-for-newcastle-striker-on-deadline-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak transfer: Liverpool agree British record \u00a3125m deal for Newcastle striker on deadline day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Liverpool have agreed a British transfer record fee of \u00a3125m to sign striker Alexander Isak from Newcastle United.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sources close to the deal have told BBC Sport that an agreement for the Sweden international to move to Anfield is now in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle sources claim the deal could be worth as much as \u00a3130m with add-ons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Isak is undergoing a medical on Monday before signing a six-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They had an original \u00a3110m offer for Isak rejected in August but are now set to land their first-choice target of the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The protracted saga involving the 25-year-old appears set to come to an end on the final day of the transfer window, and it follows Newcastle having signed striker Nick Woltemade from Stuttgart last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Liverpool failed to complete a \u00a335m deal to sign England defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp373w2ekgeo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Marc Guehi from Crystal Palace.<\/a> The 25-year-old had a medical with the Reds, but Palace&#8217;s failure to sign a replacement meant the deal collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool have already broken their club transfer record this summer by signing Germany attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz in a deal worth an initial \u00a3100m, with a further \u00a316m in add-ons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Isak&#8217;s arrival would top that outlay. After also bringing in Guehi, Hugo Ekitike, Milos Kerkez, Jeremie Frimpong, Giorgi Mamardashvili, Armin Pecsi and Giovanni Leoni, the deal would take the club&#8217;s spending to about \u00a3451.2m without add-on fees &#8211; the highest total in Premier League history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is only the second time that an English side has shelled out more than \u00a3400m in a single summer, following Chelsea&#8217;s \u00a3401.2m outlay in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the departures of Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez, Jarell Quansah, Caoimhin Kelleher, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Tyler Morton and Ben Doak have recouped an initial amount of about \u00a3190m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c8904kw17j0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have agreed a British transfer record fee of \u00a3125m to sign striker Alexander Isak from Newcastle United. Sources close to the deal have told BBC Sport that an agreement for the Sweden international to move to Anfield is now in place. Newcastle sources claim the deal could be worth as much as \u00a3130m with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[11660,1670,8184,2234,75,1744,449,7415,1145,2056,1061,2257,7745],"class_list":["post-36383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-125m","tag-agree","tag-alexander","tag-british","tag-day","tag-deadline","tag-deal","tag-isak","tag-liverpool","tag-newcastle","tag-record","tag-striker","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36385,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36383\/revisions\/36385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}