Time is running out for Alexander Isak's transfer from Newcastle to Liverpool.
The transfer window closes on Monday, September 1 at 8 pm and lately, it has been relatively quiet between the parties – at least outwardly seen, since Newcastle rejected a bid said to be worth 110 million pounds.
New bid
Now, The Telegraph reports that the parties have moved closer to each other in the last 24 hours and that Liverpool is preparing a new bid.
Newcastle is said to have demanded 150 million pounds for their Swedish star. The new bid is said to be 130 million pounds, but includes various performance-based add-on clauses, which can increase the total transfer sum if Isak succeeds for his new club.
The total transfer sum would thus be able to end up near 150 million pounds, equivalent to 1.9 billion kronor. This would set a new British transfer record. The current record is 106 million pounds.
Broken promises
Alexander Isak has been very clear that he wants to leave Newcastle and has not played for his club in the beginning of the Premier League season. The Swede accuses the club of breaking a promise he was given to be able to move on this summer if Newcastle recruited a replacement.
"When promises are broken, trust disappears, the relationship cannot continue”, Isak wrote, among other things, on social media.
It's absolutely not true. I never give players any promises about transfers because I don't have control over it, said Newcastle manager Eddie Howe recently.
On Saturday, Newcastle presented Isak's expected replacement in the German striker Nick Woltemade from Stuttgart. The club is also said to be chasing several other players, according to The Telegraph's sources.
