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Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n
Let’s have a look at how this saga has played out since the end of last season…<\/p>\n
25 May – Alexander Isak finishes 2024-25 season as Newcastle’s top scorer with 27 goals in 42 appearances<\/p>\n
19 July – Newcastle boss Eddie Howe says Isak will “absolutely” be on the club’s pre-season tour of the far-east after the Swede missed a 4-0 friendly defeat by Celtic with a thigh injury<\/p>\n
23 July – Liverpool sign striker Hugo Ekitike in \u00a369m deal from Eintracht Frankfurt<\/p>\n
24 July – Isak is left out of Newcastle’s squad for their pre-season tour with a “minor thigh injury”<\/p>\n
24 July – Isak expresses desire to explore move away from Newcastle<\/p>\n
28 July – Sources tell BBC Sport that Liverpool remain keen on signing Isak, despite the arrival of Ekitike<\/p>\n
29 July – Howe says Newcastle are yet to receive any offers for Isak<\/p>\n
31 July – Isak trains alone at former club Real Sociedad<\/p>\n
1 August – Newcastle reject Liverpool’s opening \u00a3110m offer for the Sweden international and the Reds may not continue their interest<\/p>\n
2 August – Howe says he “really doesn’t know what is going to happen next” and describes the situation as “far from ideal”<\/p>\n
4 August – Isak returns to Newcastle training ground but has been told to train away from the first-team squad<\/p>\n
8 August – Howe says it is “clear” he ‘can’t involve’ Isak at Newcastle as things stand<\/p>\n
16 August – Isak not part of matchday squad as Newcastle held at Aston Villa in Premier League opener<\/p>\n
19 August – Isak says promises have been “broken” by Newcastle and “the relationship can’t continue” while club says “no commitment has ever been made” to Isak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timeline of Isak transfer sagapublished at 09:22 British Summer Time 09:22 BST Newcastle United Image source, Getty Images…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-79786","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}