{"id":34942,"date":"2025-07-31T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34942\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:44:07","slug":"liverpool-target-alexander-isak-training-at-real-sociedad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34942\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool target Alexander Isak training at Real Sociedad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Isak<\/a> is working on recovering from injury at Real Sociedad<\/a>‘s training ground, the LaLiga club has confirmed to ESPN, after missing Newcastle’s preseason tour amid growing speculation over a move to Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Newcastle have cited a “minor thigh injury” as the reason behind Isak’ absence from the team’s tour of Asia.<\/a><\/p>\n

He missed Sunday’s game<\/a> against Arsenal<\/a> in Singapore and a match against a K-League XI. He will also not feature against Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> in South Korea this week.<\/p>\n

ESPN has reported that the Sweden international is open to leaving<\/a> Newcastle this summer, with Liverpool leading the race to sign him if becomes available, although Newcastle insist that they are not open to a transfer.<\/p>\n

A Real Sociedad spokesperson confirmed to ESPN on Thursday that Isak has been working on his recovery at their training ground, Zubieta, outside San Sebasti\u00e1n this week.<\/p>\n

Isak played for La Real for three years, becoming one of Europe’s most in-demand young forwards, before joining Newcastle in 2022.<\/p>\n

Alexander Isak is open to a move away from Newcastle this summer.\u00a0Serena Taylor\/Newcastle United via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Newcastle are reluctant to allow Isak — who has scored 44 Premier League<\/a> goals in three seasons on Tyneside, and has three years left on his contract — to leave, with coach Eddie Howe insisting earlier this month that the player is “happy” at the club while admitting that “you never know what can happen.”<\/p>\n

Liverpool have already beaten Newcastle to the signing of Hugo Ekitike<\/a> from Eintracht Frankfurt<\/a> this summer in a deal worth an initial \u00a369 million ($91m).<\/p>\n

– Ogden: Why Liverpool still want Isak this summer<\/a>
– Laurens: How Ekitike ended up at Liverpool<\/a>
– Will Ekitike be a hit or flop? Here’s why he’s hard to scout<\/a><\/p>\n

The Premier League champions have already added Florian Wirtz<\/a>, Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> and Milos Kerkez<\/a> to the squad, but allowed another forward, Luis D\u00edaz<\/a>, to join Bayern Munich<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

“[Isak] is still our player. He’s contracted to us,” Howe said this week. “We, to a degree, control what is next for him. I would love to believe all possibilities are still available to us. My wish is that he stays, but that’s not in my full control.<\/p>\n

“We have not received a formal offer for Alex, from any club.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak is working on recovering from injury at Real Sociedad‘s training ground, the LaLiga club has confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-34942","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\/34942","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=34942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}