Henrik Larsson makes Alexander Isak Barcelona transfer admission as Liverpool update given

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Liverpool signed Alexander Isak for £125m from Newcastle United in the summer but if Henrik Larsson had had his way, the striker would be playing for another giant of European footballIt was a summer of big moves for Swedish forwards. But none surpassed the £125m deadline day deal Liverpool agreed with Newcastle United to end the Alexander Isak saga.Newcastle had already bolstered their frontline with the £55m arrival of Anthony Elanga while Arsenal got the No.9 they had been searching for when they swooped for Viktor Gyokeres for £63.8m from Sporting Lisbon.But Liverpool smashed the British transfer record when they ended the summer-long saga over Isak's future.READ MORE: Arne Slot addresses Ibrahima Konate and Mohamed Salah Liverpool form - 'So much focus'READ MORE: Arne Slot confirms major Liverpool injury blow amid Hugo Ekitike fitness updateThe 26-year-old had long made it clear he wanted to move on from the Magpies after helping them win the club's first major trophy in 70 years by scoring the crucial second goal in the 2-1 Carabao Cup final win over his new club.After netting 62 goals in 109 appearances at St James' Park following his £63m move from Real Sociedad, Isak could have had his pick of clubs.However, he only had eyes for the Reds, and after a disrupted summer that he largely spent training on his own, he will be looking to kick-on at Liverpool after the international break.And one of Sweden's greatest-ever strikers, Henrik Larsson, has no doubt Isak will do just that.But the Celtic goalscoring legend, who went on to win the Champions League with Barcelona, has revealed he had tipped off one of his former club about the superstar's talent."It's not for me to give him advice," said Larsson, who went on to coach at Barcelona under Ronald Koeman, exclusively to Flashscore.

"He's been a talent since he was 15."Playing at Newcastle is not easy, and he did it fantastically well. Now he's going to Liverpool - it's just the next step."I told Barcelona about him when I was there (as a coach).

They asked me for a list of strikers, and I said Alexander Isak."He was one of them, and I actually also had (Robert) Lewandowski on it."Barcelona's loss should be the Reds' gain although head coach Arne Slot has admitted his new No.9 is still getting up to speed.Speaking at his latest press conference, the Liverpool head coach said: "I said to him when he started that the difficult thing will be you will have your appearances, but if you add the minutes together, (he) probably only had two or three 90-minute games."That is what we inherited from the situation of him not being with the team in Newcastle and we knew this before, so it's not an excuse."He already scored a goal, he gets fitter and fitter, but the main thing is he adjusts to his team-mates and the team-mates adjust to him."The more he plays together, the better things will work. He had a great counter movement in the (Crystal) Palace game, where in the end the midfielder didn't see that and he already played the ball to the right."If he would have seen it, he would have been one-on-one to the goalkeeper.