{"id":30586,"date":"2025-09-01T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/isak-breaks-record-joins-liverpool-in-mega-169m-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:22:47","slug":"isak-breaks-record-joins-liverpool-in-mega-169m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/isak-breaks-record-joins-liverpool-in-mega-169m-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Isak breaks record: Joins Liverpool in mega \u00a3169M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"Liverpool has finalized the signing of striker Alexander Isak, coming from Newcastle United, in a deal that sets a new record in British football.\n\nThe Premier League champions accepted a \u00a3125 million (approximately $170 million) offer for the Swedish international in the early hours of Monday, and the player has signed a six-year contract with the Anfield club.\n\nIsak will wear the number 9 shirt.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s been a long road to get here. I am very happy to be a part of this team, this club, and everything it represents. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;m proud of and I&#8217;m looking forward to it.<\/p><cite>Alexander Isak<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe signing 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 player has not been included in Eddie Howe&#8217;s team this season and issued a statement last month in which he claimed that Newcastle&#8217;s management had &#8220;broken&#8221; promises, and insisted that a transfer this summer would be best for all parties.\n\nIsak, 25 years old, becomes the most expensive signing in Premier League history, surpassing Mois\u00e9s Caicedo, who joined Chelsea for \u00a3115 million from Brighton in the summer of 2023.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0724%2Fr1523061_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Isak ha fichado por el Liverpool procedente del Newcastle en un acuerdo r\u00e9cord brit\u00e1nico.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Alexander Isak ha fichado por el Liverpool procedente del Newcastle en un acuerdo r\u00e9cord brit\u00e1nico. Serena Taylor\/Newcastle United via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nThis is the second transfer record Liverpool breaks this summer, 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.\n\nThe latest deal also takes Liverpool&#8217;s summer spending to over \u00a3400 million, although the departures of several first-team players, including Luis D\u00edaz and Darwin N\u00fa\u00f1ez, help offset the club&#8217;s significant financial outlay.\n\nIsak added:\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think I have a lot to give, I think I have a lot to improve. I am a forward, but I always want to give the maximum possible to the team, mainly goals, but much more than that too. I want to win everything.<\/p><cite>Alexander Isak<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool has finalized the signing of striker Alexander Isak, coming from Newcastle United, in a deal that sets a new record in British football. The Premier League champions accepted a \u00a3125 million (approximately $170 million) offer for the Swedish international in the early hours of Monday, and the player has signed a six-year contract with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5840,138,144,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-30586","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-newcastle","11":"tag-premier-league"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30586","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=30586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}