{"id":20215,"date":"2025-07-24T09:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/20215\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:46:07","slug":"alexander-isak-newcastle-striker-not-part-of-squad-for-pre-season-tour-of-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/20215\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak: Newcastle striker not part of squad for pre-season tour of Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alexander Isak has not been named in Newcastle&#8217;s squad for their pre-season tour of Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Saturday, Magpies boss Eddie Howe said Isak would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c89ejp0nx8do\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;absolutely&#8221; be part of the squad<\/a> for games in Singapore and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle have selected a 30-man group for the trip but said Isak &#8220;misses out with a minor thigh injury&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Sweden international, who scored 27 goals in 42 appearances across all competitions last season, has been heavily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c39zewy0337o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">linked with a move to Liverpool<\/a> this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old was also left out of Saturday&#8217;s 4-0 defeat at Celtic as Newcastle began their pre-season fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defender Lewis Hall has not featured since February with a foot injury but has been included in the squad as he steps up his recovery before the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle face Arsenal on Sunday 27 July in Singapore before travelling to South Korea to take on a K-League All-Star team on 30 July and Tottenham on 3 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak has not been named in Newcastle&#8217;s squad for their pre-season tour of Asia. On Saturday, Magpies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-20215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}