Fabrizio Romano makes it sound like Alexander Isak to Liverpool transfer is imminent

Liverpool already signed one of the best strikers on the transfer market this summer in Eintracht Frankfurt star Hugo Ekitke, bagging the Bundesliga breakout star for a cool 80 million pounds.

Ekitike was one of the best strikers in Europe last season and wanted by virtually every top Premier League club interested in a striker, including Chelse and Newcastle.

Liverpool signed Ekitike as an upgrade on Darwin Nunez, but after selling Luis Diaz to Bayern Munich for nearly as much as they bought Ekitike for, the Reds are now after another forward.

Except they want another striker. And they don’t just want any striker. They want the striker who rivaled Erling Haaland as the Premier League’s best last season, posting a career year and putting all of his raw talent together for Newcastle.

Alexander Isak is practically begging for a Liverpool transfer

After striking out on Ekitke to Liverpool, the Magpies are now at serious risk of losing their most prized player to Liverpool, too, as the Reds have been in hot pursuit of Alexander Isak.

Now, Fabrizio Romano reports that Isak is simply waiting for Liverpool to submit a record-breaking transfer bid to Newcastle in order to force the Saudi Arabia-owned club into selling the superstar to Anfield.

Isak, for his part, is reportedly so set on joining Liverpool that they are his “only clear choice” despite another Saudi government-owned club, the Saudi Pro League’s highly ambitious Al-Hilal, throwing a ton of money at the Swedish international.

Romano writes that Isak made his decision to join Liverpool “weeks ago”, so Liverpool won’t have any sort of issues with getting the 25-year-old striker sensation to pen a personal agreement on contractual terms with the reigning Premier League champions.

The fact that Isak is reportedly openly striking out of practice in order to leave Newcastle and is merely, per Fab, biding his time until Liverpool offers a deal to the Magpies is a huge sign that a deal is going to happen.

If, as Romano says, Liverpool are ready to break another record – they already did with Florian Wirtz earlier this summer – to sign Isak, then it’s hard to see Newcastle saying no when they have a 25-year-old striker in his prime who is strong-arming the club into selling.

Newcastle want to build something that lasts, so they can’t afford to get into a feud with their best player when they can take big money on the table and parlay that into a slew of upgrades for a team that is nowhere near competing with Liverpool in the Premier League just yet.

Meanwhile, if Liverpool can bag Isak, which seems like it will be the case, they will have the most enviable squad in the league with Mohammed Salah, Cody Gakpo, Isak, Ekitike, and Wirtz leading the attack.