{"id":467892,"date":"2026-05-26T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/467892\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:20:08","slug":"rating-all-liverpools-signings-after-record-summer-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/467892\/","title":{"rendered":"Rating all Liverpool’s signings after record summer spree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isak arrived with high expectations after forcing his way out of Newcastle United<\/a> to join for a record fee of \u00a3125m. <\/p>\n

But the Sweden striker has endured a year to forget, with a serious ankle injury that included a fibula fracture ruling him out for three months and other smaller issues affecting his availability.<\/p>\n

Isak netted 54 goals from 86 appearances in the Premier League for Newcastle<\/a> but scored just three times in 14 top-flight appearances for Liverpool<\/a>, albeit six of those games were from off the bench. <\/p>\n

“Availability is the best ability”, the saying goes, and Liverpool<\/a> need Isak to play a lot more than the 1,033 minutes he managed in 2025-26, especially with Ekitike out for a long period. <\/p>\n

When fit, Isak showed flashes of his class – such as the touch and finish against Crystal Palace<\/a> – and a prime task for Liverpool<\/a> next season will be to improve their ability to get their central striker involved in the game.<\/p>\n

In 2025-26, it was routinely poor no matter who was in the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isak arrived with high expectations after forcing his way out of Newcastle United to join for a record…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-467892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}