· 19 June 2025, 18:00
**The rumours surrounding Liverpool eyeing a huge summer move for Alexander Isak have hit an all-time high today, to the point where it seems to be all anyone is talking about.**
While Newcastle United continue to dawdle in the transfer market, clubs in and around them at the top of the Premier League are wasting no time in strengthening.
After only bringing in Federico Chiesa last summer, Liverpool has plenty of money to spend this summer and spend it they are. They have already broken the £100 million barrier once this summer by signing Florian Wirtz, and they are keen to do it again to prise Alexander Isak away from Newcastle, a move that reporters believe will cost north of £120 million to complete.
We've remained quite bullish over the idea that Alexander Isak is going nowhere, and we still believe that will be the case, but the cracks in our confidence are starting to worry us.
Newcastle may have to shatter their wage cap to convince Alexander Isak to stay
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Newcastle may feel they're title contenders now after hanging around with the big boys for the last few seasons and playing in the Champions League, but thanks to PSR, we're not in that bracket at all.
As seen with Bryan Mbeumo, who everyone thought was Newcastle-bound, now looks to be heading to Manchester United (or Tottenham), because they offered him £250,000-a-week, a figure that dwarfs Newcastle's highest earner, Bruno Guimaraes' £160,000-a-week.
Newcastle will look to raise their wage cap again when they negotiate a new deal with Alexander Isak this summer (provided he's still here), but unless his new wage is over £200,000-a-week, we may start to see the Sweden star looking elsewhere, knowing that he could probably demand ridiculous wages elsewhere.
Fingers crossed that Alexander Isak isn't motivated by money
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Not all players are motivated by money, and hopefully, Isak is one such player. However, he will have people in his ear (who would just so happen to profit from a move) telling him how much he's worth and what he could earn elsewhere, and let's be honest - that voice is going to sound good eventually.
If it weren't for our good friend PSR, we'd just throw him what he wanted without even thinking about it; it's not as if the PIF can't afford it. But the stupid financial restrictions we're operating under mean that our best players are constantly at risk of being poached by a club that can offer higher wages.
Unless Isak has been told that Newcastle are going to shatter their wage structure when they offer him a new deal, we can absolutely understand how some fans are getting increasingly worried about all the talk of Liverpool.
We simply don't believe Newcastle has the PSR headroom to do so, but we also don't believe that any club has the headroom to pull off a deal of the scope it would take to get Newcastle to part with their star player while he's still got three years remaining on his contract.