With 19 Premier League objectives up to now this season and worldwide popularity of his performances, it’s truthful to say that Alexander Isak is arguably probably the most in-demand participant within the league in the intervening time.
Contracted to Newcastle till 2028, an opportunity to depart a long-lasting legacy because the membership’s second-top goalscorer within the division is greater than in his grasp.
And in keeping with the newest stories, Newcastle stay dedicated to conserving their star man regardless of curiosity each domestically and from overseas.
Talking on NBC Sports activities Soccer, famend journalist David Ornstein mentioned simply how properly Alexander Isak has achieved this season, and the way the membership intends to reward the participant for his really landmark marketing campaign up to now.
“Alexander Isak is the most popular property within the Premier League, I feel that’s truthful to say, and that’s due to his goalscoring document and what he’s achieved at Newcastle United.”
The crown jewel in Eddie Howe’s Champions League-chasing facet, the £60m+ that the Magpies spent on the Swede is trying increasingly more like a discount with each passing month.
With the membership’s immensely excessive ambitions underneath PIF and Yasir Al-Rumayyan’s stance just lately revealed, Ornstein corroborates latest stories that Newcastle don’t have any want nor have to promote their foremost man.
“Newcastle don’t have any intention of promoting Isak: they’ve bought him underneath contract till 2028, they pay him very handsomely, and if something, they wish to renew his deal and construct with him for the long run, not with out him.”
“The discuss across the business is {that a} determine within the area of £150m even to debate it with Newcastle – however that’s all hypothetical at this level.”
Nonetheless, as Ornstein factors out, Isak’s prolific goalscoring is attracting main curiosity, significantly in a market with a definite lack of credible goalscoring no.9s the place (arguably) solely Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe stand above Isak.
“Mikel Arteta, for instance, would like to signal him for Arsenal. He’s on the high of their checklist in the event that they’re going to recruit a striker this summer season, which they intend do.”
And it’s not simply the Gunners, who Isak scored in opposition to within the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final, excited about Isak’s signature: NBC lists Liverpool, Chelsea, and even Barcelona as different potential suitors for the previous Actual Sociedad man, not that this can change Newcastle’s stance!