{"id":151249,"date":"2025-09-12T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151249\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:38:07","slug":"alexander-isak-wasnt-expected-to-be-up-to-speed-for-7-weeks-by-newcastle-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151249\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak wasn’t expected to be up to speed for 7 weeks by Newcastle – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newcastle<\/a> had a fitness plan in place for Alexander Isak<\/a> had he remained at the club this summer, and by their estimation they did not expect him to be back to his best for two months.<\/p>\n

The prolonged transfer saga between Isak and Newcastle<\/a> came to an end on deadline day, with Liverpool and the player getting the move they had waited all summer for.<\/p>\n

Isak, however, signed after a disjointed pre-season that left him training in isolation and without any pre-season matches, leaving him with plenty of time to make up.<\/p>\n

Liverpool will have a plan in place for his integration into Arne Slot<\/a>\u2018s side, but he wasted no time in training for the first time on Wednesday after playing 18 minutes for Sweden. <\/p>\n

According to the Chronicle Live<\/a>\u2018s chief Newcastle<\/a> reporter, Lee Ryder, the Magpies held the expectation that it would take Isak until \u201cafter the next international break in October to get back to his best levels.\u201d <\/p>\n

The club\u2019s staff were left with \u201cmajor concerns\u201d over his fitness levels despite working individually with Newcastle<\/a>\u2018s sports science department. <\/p>\n

If that were the case, Isak would not be at his best until Liverpool host Man United<\/a> on October 19, the first game back from the break and seven weeks after he officially became a Red. <\/p>\n

Not a bad time to hit his stride, but there is plenty of time between now and then to build up the striker\u2019s match fitness levels.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Liverpool will not rush Isak\u2019s integration into the team, as they will prefer to bide their time rather than rushing the Swede and potentially seeing him succumb to an injury.<\/p>\n

The expectation will be that he is introduced off the bench before building up to a starting berth, which could, optimistically, come against Southampton<\/a> in the Carabao Cup<\/a> on September 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle had a fitness plan in place for Alexander Isak had he remained at the club this summer,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1711,403,99],"class_list":["post-151249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}