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Liverpool have been linked with a transfer interest in Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak.

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Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore has predicted that Newcastle United forward Alexander Isak will move to Anfield this summer, with a deal in the works for more than a year.

Liverpool have been linked with an interest in the Sweden international, with news emerging this week that the striker has not joined Newcastle on their pre-season tour of Asia.



It comes after Liverpool confirmed the signing of Eintracht Frankfurt forward Hugo Ekitike.

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The expected departures of both Darwin Nunez and Federico Chiesa, as well as interest in Luis Diaz, means that Liverpool may still be in the market for attacking players before the end of the window.

“I can only see Alexander Isak joining Liverpool if he does leave Newcastle, which is now expected,” he wrote in his column for CaughtOffside.

“I think this has been something that’s been ongoing probably for 12 months or more.

If the player says that they’re going to down tools unless you let me go to this specific club, it’s very, very difficult for the club.”

The addition of Ekitike takes Liverpool’s spending to beyond £265 million so far this summer, with any addition of Isak likely to take the spend to over £400 million.

That’s six top-quality front players.

“So for me, it just says that Liverpool now are realising that if they’re going to stay top of the Premier League, if they’re going to continue to win Champions Leagues, but more importantly, win domestic leagues in the manner that Manchester City have done, they have to accept that Man City, Man United, Chelsea and Arsenal are going to continue to spend as more and more money pours into the Premier League.
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