{"id":29672,"date":"2025-07-29T09:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29672\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:51:09","slug":"transfer-news-eddie-howe-says-alexander-isak-future-not-in-my-full-control-plus-benjamin-sesko-and-ollie-watkins-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29672\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news: Eddie Howe says Alexander Isak future &#8216;not in my full control&#8217;, plus Benjamin Sesko and Ollie Watkins updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Liverpool bid for Isak?published at 09:51 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>09:51 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Newcastle United player Alexander Isak celebrates\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/09c5e7f9-f0dc-4a9b-b76c-b7166d048d88.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"644\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most Premier League clubs cannot match Newcastle&#8217;s reported \u00a3130m valuation of Alexander Isak, but Liverpool are among the few who could actually afford the prolific scorer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Premier League champions have already spent more than \u00a3250m this summer but their income has been boosted this year thanks to several factors, led by the \u00a3175m they received in prize money for winning the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last season was also the club&#8217;s first full campaign with a higher capacity stadium while a new kit deal with Adidas, which some reports value at \u00a360m per season, will kick in from 1 August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Combine that with comparatively low transfer spending in previous windows and Liverpool find themselves well within the Premier League&#8217;s profit and sustainability rules that limit clubs to losses of \u00a3105m over three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having massive global stars come and play at Anfield, filling out stadiums in Hong Kong and Japan, those are things we expect and want to do,&#8221; Liverpool chief executive Billy Hogan told the Athletic recently. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liverpool signings this summer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bcec0e8e-4756-4652-b455-bdf7bdd0240b.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1070\" height=\"601\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Liverpool bid for Isak?published at 09:51 British Summer Time 09:51 BST Image source, Getty Images Most Premier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-29672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}