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Isak on strike!
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As the new PL season approaches, there is still plenty of transfer news to discuss a Jesse Sarwar talks Alexander Isak and other targets.
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Premier League Season Kickoff
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Hello and welcome to the Daily Liverpool podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. I'm your host, Jesse Sarwa. We are just a matter of days away from the restart of the Premier League.
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The Reds are kicking off on Friday night for the first Premier League game of the season. So that's just a few days away now. So that season is nearly upon us and it just feels like such a long summer.
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So much has happened.
Transfer Season Highlights & Diogo Jota Tragedy
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Lots of exciting things have happened in terms of And obviously we've had awful tragedy with Diogo Jota.
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So it has been a a a really ah remarkable close season. And i just think that everyone now will be just itching to just get this season started up and running.
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And let's start the defence of that Premier League team. title But the transfer window remains open until the end of the month. And I think there is still plenty of business that will be conducted between now and the end of the season.
Alexander Isak's Transfer Drama
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So let's look at what the latest news is ah ah regarding potential player sales, both incoming and outgoing players.
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The big news, the big development really is in the Alexander Isak saga. And it really is a saga now, isn't it? it's so There's always a transfer saga, every window.
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And Isak to Liverpool is definitely the one for this summer window. Now, a story has broken, which has been reported by David Ornstein, very reliable journalist in the area of football transfers.
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He's reporting that Alexander Isak has effectively gone on strike. if reports are to be believed, he has already vacated his premises in the Northeast.
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And he is quoted, i mean, it's not direct quote, but that these are the reports that are coming out, that he will never play for Newcastle United again, regardless of whether a sale is made.
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regardless of whether he ends up at Liverpool or not, even if the sale doesn't go through, he is saying that he's never going to play for Newcastle United again. That complete breakdown in the relationship between Newcastle's number nine and the club.
Broken Promises & Player Contracts
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Now, from Isaac's perspective, he and his agent are putting out the story that promises have been made and have not been fulfilled in terms of his right to move to a club, which is more befitting his ambition.
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Now, I don't know where this kind of thing has come from. We've seen it in recent seasons as well. This idea of broken promises.
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I remember Harry Kane he was at Spurs, there was this whole hoo-ha about broken promises that he was promised this or he promised that.
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Look, you've got a contract. OK, you've got a contract. Any promise that you want inserted into the contract, go ahead and do that.
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But this is, you know, this is football. This is the modern world. I don't think anyone in any walk of life really relies on a promise.
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It's what's in your contract. And I just think that the way that this has been handled, I think, even as a Liverpool supporter, you don't want to see players behaving in this way.
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I mean, it's a really significant development. It's really kind of drawn a line in the sand. It's effectively is that putting in a transfer request. i don't know if that's officially happened.
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And if he really wants to move, that's what he should do. He should just put in a transfer request and say, look, I was promised X, Y and said You haven't delivered.
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Here is my transfer request.
Isak's Legal Risks at Newcastle
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But unfortunately, don't. You know, you have these technicalities in terms of contracts that I think players are not entitled to any kind of loyalty bonuses or or anything like that if they put a transfer request in.
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But I just think that if you're a footballer and and you're already a multimillionaire and you have real genuine ambitions to play for a club, that is you know pushing for the Premier League. I mean, we're Premier League champions already, but maybe looking to retain the Premier League, to always be in the mix to win the Premier League and to be in the mix to win the Champions League. If that's your ambition, I don't see why you shouldn't just put in an official transfer request.
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I think that's the the best way to do it, the cleanest way to do it. It gives a clear signal that to the club that you're playing for that look, thank you very much. I've had a great time here, but you know, I want to leave.
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And if I, if I leave, you'll get a great transfer fee for me. But this, this kind of behavior, i don't think, it I don't think it does anyone any favors. are I don't think it leaves anyone in a particularly positive light, but This idea that he will not play for Newcastle again, I mean, how does that work?
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If this deal doesn't go through, is he just going to refuse to play for Newcastle United? I'm not sure that he can... follow through on that threat. I mean, surely there would be some kind of legal re repercussion.
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Surely Newcastle could sanction the player for breach of contract or or something like that. But I don't think you can just say, I'm not playing for you anymore and there be no kind of consequences.
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It's also really important. It's a World Cup year.
Newcastle's Transfer Market Struggles
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Newcastle are already in the Champions League. I don't think that that is a threat that he can follow through on. I honestly don't think.
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I think he'd sulk. I think that he'd be on the bench for a while. But as is always the case in these scenarios, the player will just be slowly reintegrated into the team. And after a couple of months, you know, he scores a goal and everyone forgets about what's happened before.
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But... It's, you know, it's not the right way to go about doing this. And as I said, I just think, I think Liverpool should just say to Isaac, look, just put in a transfer request.
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We'll stump up the money and just let's get this done. Because I think Newcastle United...
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They will eventually, I think, they will sell. of Of course, they are in a ah ah particular predicament in the sense that they haven't found a replacement. they have' They've been very, very unsuccessful in this transfer window.
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They've had a terrible transfer window. They've been rejected by so many of their targets. They've missed out on Benjamin Sesko. to Manchester United, which again, I think it does speak to the kind of challenges that clubs like Newcastle United face because they're not just up against...
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The current big boys, they're not just up against Premier League champions Liverpool or a team that's going to challenge again, which is Manchester City or Chelsea, but they are up against the legacy big clubs and Manchester United are one of those.
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And for Sesko to look at Manchester United, who finished in 15th position last season, an absolute shambles, a basket case of a team and a basket case of a club.
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For Sesko to look at that and think... I'm probably better off in terms of my career to go to Manchester United, a storied Manchester United, even though they've fallen on hard times, than to go to Newcastle United, who have just won their first trophy in, I don't know what, 700 years or something.
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they're in the Champions League. And Manchester United are not even in Europe. And I think that's one of the big... big struggles the big challenges that clubs like Newcastle United have got to face is that they have really got to offer so much to a player and I don't just mean money But they've got to really punch above their weight for a player to eventually make that decision and say, yeah, I'm going to go to Newcastle United.
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With the added danger that in one or two years time, if that player does do well at Newcastle United, they'll do what Alexander Izak is doing, which is, you know, yeah, we've had a great time. We've won a trophy. We're in the Champions League.
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But I want to compete for the biggest prizes. I want to go to an elite club where I'm going to win the Champions League or going to win the Premier League. So they have had a really, really tough transfer window and...
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You know, whether they sanction this move for Isaac unless they buy a striker it's I mean, that's the big question, isn't it?
Impact of Saudi Ownership on Transfers
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You'd all also have to factor in the new ownership, the Saudi ownership.
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And whether that's going to have any kind of influence or impact on this kind of impasse with Alexandra Izzak, because, you know, the the Saudis, they're not used to being kind of pushed around.
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And I just think that then there is a chance that they may just turn around to Isaac and say, look, we haven't been able to we haven't managed to buy a new striker.
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And so you're not going anywhere. And if you want to down tools, fine. We'll just put you in the reserves and because we can absorb the cost and you'll rot in the reserves.
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So there is that possibility as well. there There is an unknown there with how this new ownership will deal with this new situation.
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So let's see how that develops. I mean, Liverpool's first bid was rejected and and that was in the region of 100 or 110 million pounds, depending on what reports you believe.
Liverpool's Transfer Strategies with Isak
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And so really the ball is in Liverpool's court in terms of how much more they are going to offer.
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Are they going to offer significantly more? It's been widely reported that Newcastle are looking for £150 million. pounds I don't think Liverpool will go to £150 million. pounds I think that they may kind of go to around about halfway between £100 and £150, maybe £125, maybe £130. There also another would...
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maybe a hundred and thirty there is also another possibility i would Liverpool should consider a cash plus player deal. Harvey Elliott has, I mean, the writing's on the wall for him.
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You know, he is a bit of a fan favourite. He's a massive Liverpool supporter, has been all his life. Hasn't done a lot wrong, but I just can't see him breaking into that midfield now.
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Particularly with Wurtz coming in now, you know, you've got Gravenberg, you've got McAllister, you've got Subozlai. And now Florian Wirtz has come in. And then you've got Curtis Jones is even ahead of him in that pecking order.
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I just don't see a way where he's going to get enough game time that warrants him staying at Liverpool. So I think Liverpool offering £100 million with a £40 to £50 million pound rated Harvey Elliott.
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or £110 million pounds with Harvey Elliott, I think that should be enough to seal the deal. And I think that would suit both parties. I think Newcastle United will be getting a very, very good English player.
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And, you know, he's a first-team player. And Harvey Elliott would be getting guaranteed game time, first-team football,
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At a club that is on the up, has done really well, is in the Champions League. And I just think it's an ideal move for all parties if Liverpool were to offer cash plus play a player like Harvey Elliott and just get this deal done.
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So there that's the Alexander Izak update.
Liverpool's Defensive Pursuits
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The Daily Telegraph are reporting that Liverpool are still favourites to land Crystal Palace skipper Mark Gahey.
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Gahey played against Liverpool on Sunday in that Community Shield defeat.
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He's in the final year of his contract, and that's, I think, the sticking point for Liverpool, is that Crystal Palace are digging their heels in. They want £50 million pounds for their captain, as is their right.
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It's their right to to try and dig in and get the most that they possibly can. given that we are are also you know fairly kind of late in the window. we're We're just a few days away from the start of the Premier League season. and So they'd have to go out and and find a replacement for Gehi.
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But I think Liverpool, I can't see them pulling the trigger for £50 million pounds for Mark Gehi when they can get him for nothing. next summer or even a reduced fee come January.
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So that is the latest on Mark
Giovanni Leone: A Young Alternative
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Gahey. I do think that the other centre-back option that Liverpool have been linked with, which is 18-year-old Giovanni Leone, an 18-year-old centre-back at Parma in Serie A in Italy.
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I think that this option, i think is is a I think there's a lot of legs in this one. I think that Liverpool, there's a strong possibility that they will go in and move for Lyon.
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And I would 100% support that. I think that this i think this player is he's a real special talent. And I think that He's someone that can really develop next to the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Canate, and under the guidance of Arnie Slott.
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All the big Italian teams, Juventus, Inter Milan, AC Milan, are all circling around this player, but they've been put off by Palmer's €40 million euro valuation.
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I don't think that's a price ah ah price tag that will put off off any Premier League team, really, let alone the Premier League champions. So, I mean, in an ideal world, Liverpool would go for both.
Strengthening Liverpool's Defense for the Future
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I know that sounds incredibly greedy, but i I think that Liverpool, in an ideal world, would go for both. would go for gehi and we'd go for leonei knowing that potentially and or a strong possibility that Ibrahima Kanate is going to walk out the door next summer on a free transfer because he's entering the last 12 months of his contract he hasn't put pen to paper on a new contract and you know PSG and Real Madrid are waiting in the wings you know to offer him a ah big contract a massive signing on fee
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And so I think if we sign these two players, I think we plug that gap in terms of losing an experienced international in Ibrahima Kanate, and we will replace that with another experienced international in Mark Gahey.
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But then we also kind of secure or future proof to a certain extent that centre back position with 18 year old Giovanni Leone, given that Virgil van Dijk is not going to be, you know, he's not going to go on forever.
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And even Joe Gomez is just it' just not reliable enough, unfortunately, when it comes to that centre-back
Season Expectations & Podcast Follow-up
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position. So those are the updates in terms of the latest transfer news and speculation surrounding Liverpool.
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We'll see what happens in the next few days, in the coming weeks, until that transfer window closes. Hopefully Liverpool go for both those centre-backs and hopefully Alexander Izak is confirmed a Liverpool player in in the next few days, in the coming weeks.
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Let's see. But that is all for today. You've been listening to the Daily Liverpool podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. We'll be back again tomorrow as we continue this build-up to the start of the new season. Please support the show by following us wherever you get your podcasts.
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Until next time, thank you for listening.