Fabrizio Romano explains “important moment” in Alexander Isak saga

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Liverpool travel to Newcastle United this evening aiming to extend their unbeaten start to the Premier League season, but the spotlight has been firmly on Alexander Isak’s transfer saga rather than tactics.

The Magpies’ wantaway striker has trained in isolation as negotiations with Liverpool stall, leaving Eddie Howe to field a side without his top scorer.

The Premier League champions, fresh from a 4-2 victory over Bournemouth, know they face a hostile atmosphere fueled as much by off-pitch drama as on-field competitiveness.

Isak has been training alone in the afternoons at Newcastle’s Benton training facility, arriving hours after his teammates have departed.

Eddie Howe confirmed in his pre-Liverpool press conference that he hasn’t spoken to the striker all week and revealed Isak has been instructed to “report late afternoon and train on his own” away from the main group.

But it seems the Magpies are not giving up even after everything that’s happened.

Speaking on his YouTube channel, Fabrizio Romano explained that Newcastle United hope to try and reintegrate Alexander Isak after the Liverpool game on Monday night:

“It’s going to be an important moment because it’s going to close this story between Newcastle and Liverpool and then from Tuesday we will understand more.

“Newcastle hope internally that this week, after the game, Alexander Isak can return to training, they want to convince Isak to be back after the game one Monday.

“Liverpool remain in the same position, they want Isak, they will attack for Isak but it depends on Newcastle, this story completely depends on Newcastle.

“Isak wants to go to Liverpool.

Isak wants to play for Liverpool.

Liverpool want to go for Isak

Liverpool are prepared to pay

But Newcastle are the ones are decide and they will try their best to keep him.”

The Geordie club’s £35 million bid for Brentford’s Yoane Wissa was rejected on Wednesday, with the Bees demanding closer to £40 million for the DR Congo international who scored 19 Premier League goals last season.

Wissa has made his desire to move to St James’ Park clear, even missing Brentford’s opening fixture against Nottingham Forest, but the London club are reluctant to sell without securing their own replacement first.