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Liverpool considered signing Alexander Isak in 2022 (Image: Getty)

Liverpool are in the hunt for £150million-rated Alexander Isak, but in many ways their pursuit has come three years too late.



As is often the case in modern-day football, transfer decisions rarely boil down to the manager alone, and Klopp was deliberating with a number of other senior figures on Merseyside, including the club's former director of research, Ian Graham.

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While some Liverpool chiefs thought that Isak was the man to go for, Klopp's mind was set on Darwin Nunez.

The Uruguayan had scored home and away against the Reds for Benfica in a two-legged Champions League clash just weeks before the 2022 summer transfer window opened.

Klopp was unable to shake his hunch and the German got his wish, with Liverpool forking out an initial £64million fee for Nunez as Isak headed to Newcastle in a marginally cheaper £63m deal.

Three years on, the current circumstances tell their own story.

Liverpool are weighing up whether to break the bank for Isak, who would command a British record transfer fee.

Liverpool's frontman has a comparatively modest record of 25 in 95.

Graham, who left his senior role at Anfield in 2023, has explained the sequence of events that led to Liverpool choosing Nunez over Isak in an interview with the Financial Times.

He said: "Both players, if you look at top young centre-forwards in Europe, they would [have been] number one and two — or two and three but [Erling] Haaland was going to [Manchester] City and out of our price range.

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"Jurgen preferred Nunez.
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