'In reality:' Gary Lineker names the biggest problem to have emerged from Alexander Isak's Liverpool move
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Alexander Isak finally got his wish and managed to make his dream transfer to Liverpool.
This shattered the British transfer record fee, and although Liverpool spent a tad more than they initially wanted to, it’s hard to hide from the fact that he’ll be an impressive addition.
Throughout the vast majority of the summer transfer window, everyone has known that Isak was going to get his exit one way or another.
And the fact that his stance of not playing remained the same throughout the entirety of the window shows how serious he was.
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While discussing Isak’s Liverpool transfer on the Stick to Football Podcast, Gary Lineker shared what he thinks the biggest problem to have emerged from the saga will be.
“I think a large amount of the problem is the fact that footballers are bought and sold, I mean, you don’t get that really in any other walk of life do you,” Lineker said.
“They’re treated a little bit like cattle, human beings getting bought and sold is a very sort of strange thing, it’s almost unique to football, even other sports, it just works differently to that doesn’t it.
“It’s something that we’ve become used to for so many years now, but, in reality, footballers should be allowed to go wherever they want.
“If you work in banking or something and another bank comes in and you get headhunted, well, you go and work for them if you want to work for them because you might get a bigger salary or something like that.”
If the 2025-26 summer transfer window has proved anything, it’s that, if you kick up a fuss, you’re more than likely going to get the move you desire.
Both players were key cogs in their former teams last season, and although both got their teams decent transfer fees, they’d have likely wanted to keep them around for a tad longer.