Alexander Isak faces the news talks with Newcastle boss, Eddie Howe, after his return to Tyneside.
The 25-year-old Swedish international returned to Tyneside this weekend after spending time working on his physical condition in the former Real Sociedad club as champion of the Premier League, Liverpool offered their interest in him with an offer of 110 million pounds Sterling, which was quickly rejected by the Magpies.
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He realized the headquarters of the club training Monday morning while the rest of the team returned from their pre-season trip to Singapore and South Korea.
Isak missed the tour after quoting a thigh injury in the midst of speculation with fever over his future.
Newcastle has repeatedly insisted that they did not intend to sell their star striker – that they enjoy about 150 million pounds Sterling – this summer.
But his indication that he wanted to explore the possibility of moving away from St James’ Park, where he is still three years old to play on his contract, put things in the head.
The head coach Howe, who desperately wants to keep a player who was a key figure in the recent return of the club in importance, was diplomatic as to the situation in public, but it is unlikely that he gently takes a disturbance of the team’s ethics he tried to build during his time.
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Indeed, addressing journalists before leaving Seoul after the 1-1 draw on Sunday with Tottenham, he said: “You must win the right to train with us.
“We are Newcastle United. The player is responsible here to be part of a team and to be part of a team – you must act in the right way. So it’s also in play here.
“We will make sure that any player does this to gain the right to train with the group. No player can expect to act badly and train with the group as usual.”
It turned out to have been a difficult summer for Newcastle, who added Nottingham Forestier Anthony Elaga and the Southampton goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale – on loan – to their team while seeing the midfielder Sean Longstaff and the striker Callum Wilson leave.
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However, they also saw Dean Huijsen targets, Bryan Mbeumo, Hugo Ekitike, Joao Pedro, James Trafford and Liam Delap move elsewhere.
Another singer was a priority before Liverpool interest in Isak with the 22 -year -old Osula, Osula, currently the only backup of the Swedish.
The Magpies have submitted an offer for Benjamin Sesko of RB Leipzig – also a target for Manchester United – and remain in discussion with the Bundesliga Club while pursuing an interest in Yoane Wissa de Brentford.
The success or not of this mission could have a word to say in what is happening with Isak, although the spending power of the public investment fund of Saudi Arabia, the majority shareholder of St James’, and the contractual situation of the player would allow them to dig in their heels if they did.
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That said, the problems of profitability and sustainability that have a Newcastle armband in recent seasons would be considerably relaxing by a major cash injection and an appropriate offer could leave the club with a difficult decision to take.
The former striker Magpies Alan Shearer adopts a philosophical opinion and admits that if the player died when he leaves, there is no other alternative than to sell him at the right price.
Shearer, who described the club summer to date as “disastrous”, said the rest of the football podcast: “Do I like it? Do I understand it? These are probably two different things.
“But I know what it is football and I know how it works. Obviously, Liverpool was in him or in his agent. I just thought it could have happened next year.
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“If it is really impossible for Eddie to make it run and that he says” no “-and it seems that this is the case-” I want to be released now “, you get your big money for him, whoever is ready to pay for this and that you get other people, hope it in advance, then you advance.
“No individual is bigger than any football club and if he does not want to be there, very well, get what you can and get him out and say:” Thank you very much for the memories, you go “.”
