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If ever there was a guide on how not to conduct your business, than Newcastle's handling of transfer this summer would surely be lesson one.

Not too long ago, the Magpies held ambitious thoughts of Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike playing alongside each other next season.

The dream of Isak and Ekitike playing alongside each other is still possible, although only at Anfield now.



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Whatever the motivation was behind tabling that bid for Ekitike - whether Newcastle genuinely held ambitions of him playing with Isak, or if it was a ploy to ward Liverpool off their star striker - it now looks to have blown up in their faces.

While many Newcastle fans might have thought they got the better end of the stick by keeping Isak, the Swede looks a lot more likely to be pulling on a red shirt than a black and white one this season.

The latest reports suggest that he is now refusing to ever play for Newcastle again, having supposedly made it clear to the club that he would not stay beyond last season.

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There is every possibility then of Isak landing at Anfield, and there is the added advantage of knowing he wants to leave.

That bid for Ekitike could not have backfired more spectacularly for Newcastle

Newcastle could have signed Hugo Ekitike, but now its facing up to having no senior strikers in the new season

The best case scenario for Newcastle is it holds onto a player that doesn't want to be there, and chances are he wouldn't be sticking around for long thereafter.

Meanwhile, Liverpool's worst case scenario is it goes into the new season with just the one new striker, having already transformed itself with a host of major signings
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