'Let's see if we do something' - Slot coy on Isak deal
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Arne Slot is still open to the idea of Liverpool recruiting "the right player" for the right money after the possibility of Newcastle being prepared to let Alexander Isak leave appeared to increase slightly on Thursday.
The Reds have already had one £110million bid for the Sweden striker rejected, but he remains determined to leave and is training alone at Newcastle.
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"If we can strengthen the squad then we will always try to do that, if it’s for the right money and the right player, and there are only three or four days to go now.
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Slot added: "Newcastle signed, if it’s true and I have no reason not to believe what you are saying, a new number nine.
So that’s very nice for (Newcastle head coach) Eddie (Howe), because Anthony Gordon is suspended and Isak has not been training with the team a lot, so it’s nice for him to have another number nine."
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Slot said Liverpool did not have any new fitness concerns for the match against the Gunners despite a physical encounter against Newcastle on Monday, with Virgil van Dijk on the receiving end of a particularly reckless challenge from Newcastle’s Anthony Gordon which earned the England international a red card.
"The positive is that Conor Bradley only had one or two training sessions before the Newcastle game