Why Liverpool need to be patient before Alexander Isak plan is revealed
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Read our Privacy noticeArne Slot has spent £125m on a striker who, right now, he admits is not the finest in the global game.
If you write I said he is not the best in the world, you have to add that [bit] or it is not completely fair because he is one of the best in the world.
But for him to become the best in the world, the best players in the world win trophies and that is what he and we need to do for him, or someone else, to be seen as the best or one of the best.”
Liverpool have ‘future-proofed’ their squad by spending £125m on Isak (Liverpool FC via Getty Images)
It might be part of Isak’s rationale for trading Tyneside for Merseyside.
“If a player wants to leave and we get the right money for him, then this club has shown for so many years now that we then do sell.
Each left on better terms.
“There were maybe eight, nine or 10 players in the last window who just conducted themselves in the best possible way and we are a club that is trading, so maybe write this down for every agent that has a player here, it is not necessary,” Slot added.
“It might put pressure on him and me but nothing extra, but if [you] have this on your shirt,” said Slot, pointing to the club badge, “there is always pressure.”
Still more, perhaps, when a player is charged with becoming the best striker in the world.