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Alexander Isak is essentially the most feared striker in Europe proper now and a person on fireplace.
His brace in Saturday’s 3-1 win at Southampton takes him as much as 16 aim involvements (13 targets and three assists) in his final 10 league video games and proper within the combine for the Premier League golden boot, simply two behind Mo Salah on the prime.
Fixed discuss continues (largely from Sky Sports activities and Arsenal followers on social media) round his future, however Newcastle United plan to do every part of their energy to maintain him on the membership.
After revealing that the membership will open talks over a brand new improved contract on the finish of the season, The Telegraph’s Luke Edwards has revealed what sources near Isak have been saying in regards to the participant’s response to the continuous rumours.
A snippet from his newest piece states: ‘Sources have burdened that Isak has not been distracted by the hypothesis and has advised team-mates he isn’t serious about leaving.’
Isak has usually stated how completely satisfied he’s on Tyneside. He’s settled, he’s scoring targets for enjoyable, he’s one sport away from a cup ultimate and we’re again within the combine for Champions League soccer, with the highest 5 set to qualify based mostly on UEFA’s present coefficient standings.
All of the noise is just not impacting the Swede on the pitch and it appears like he’s ignoring it off the sector too, with this precisely what we need to hear as we head in direction of a vital few months in our season.
Isak has by no means spoken like a person who has one eye on a transfer away. In truth, it’s fairly the other.
Quizzed on hyperlinks to Arsenal again in November, he stated: “All through my profession, I’ve by no means talked about or actually commented on the transfer rumours throughout the season. There have been many such years the place it has been talked about. It doesn’t have an effect on me.
“I’m commenting on my state of affairs in Newcastle, and I’ve by no means had any drawback there. I’m totally targeted on my process there and that we are going to have a improbable season. There are nonetheless nice alternatives for that. I’ve no ideas about the rest.”
Isak has additionally performed down discuss of a contract stand off, including: “The one factor I can say is that quite a lot of data and rumours usually come out. A lot of what I learn is just not true. In order that’s about all I can say about the entire thing.”
