{"id":30251,"date":"2025-09-01T05:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/liverpool-signs-alexander-isak-record-transfer-in-the-premier-league\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T05:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:08:06","slug":"liverpool-signs-alexander-isak-record-transfer-in-the-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/liverpool-signs-alexander-isak-record-transfer-in-the-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool signs Alexander Isak: Record transfer in the Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"Liverpool have reached an agreement to sign forward Alexander Isak from Newcastle United, in what represents a record transfer in the history of British football.\n\nThe current Premier League champions have had a bid of \u00a3125 million ($170 million) accepted to secure the services of the Swedish international. Isak is expected to undergo a medical before the transfer deadline on Monday at 7 p.m. BST, 2 p.m. ET.\n\nThis operation ends one of the longest transfer sagas of the summer, with Isak pushing for his departure from Newcastle for more than a month.\n\nThe 25-year-old player did not participate in the club&#8217;s pre-season tour of the Far East and has not played with Eddie Howe&#8217;s team this season.\n\nEarlier this month, Isak released a statement claiming that Newcastle&#8217;s management had &#8220;broken promises&#8221; and insisted that a transfer this summer would be best for all parties.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0611%2Fr1505523_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Isak con la camiseta del Newcastle United\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Uno de los culebrones del verano parece haber llegado a su fin con la llegada de Alexander Isak al Liverpool. (Foto de George Wood\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nIsak is about to become the most expensive signing in Premier League history, surpassing Mois\u00e9s Caicedo, who joined Chelsea for \u00a3115 million from Brighton &amp; Hove Albion in the summer of 2023.\n\nThis is the second time this summer that Liverpool has broken its transfer record, as Arne Slot&#8217;s team initially spent \u00a3100 million, plus \u00a316 million in add-ons, to sign Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen in June.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have reached an agreement to sign forward Alexander Isak from Newcastle United, in what represents a record transfer in the history of British football. The current Premier League champions have had a bid of \u00a3125 million ($170 million) accepted to secure the services of the Swedish international. Isak is expected to undergo a medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5840,138,139,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-30251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-liverpool","10":"tag-premier-league","11":"tag-transfer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}