{"id":64541,"date":"2025-08-07T07:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/64541\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:20:32","slug":"newcastle-open-to-isak-sale-but-scrambling-after-sesko-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/64541\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Open to Isak Sale but Scrambling After Sesko Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The problem is that Newcastle are struggling mightily to secure a replacement striker, which they want to do before they sanction Isak\u2019s sale, with the club having now been rejected by RB Leipzig\u2019s Benjamin Sesko<\/a>. It\u2019s not the first rejection Newcastle have suffered this summer, and the current consensus is coalescing around Chelsea\u2019s Nicolas Jackson<\/a> as the next target on the list.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all a bit of a mess for The Toon, to put it mildly. From Liverpool\u2019s perspective, though, that they\u2019re moving down their target list and trying again after the Sesko rejection is at least encouraging\u2014if Newcastle felt there was any realistic chance of keeping hold of Isak at this point, one imagines that would be their preferred option.<\/p>\n

The other good news is that with one more striker off the table in Sesko, that\u2019s one less club for Newcastle to potentially battle it out with for Jackson if in fact he is the new target, and Chelsea have signalled clearly this summer that they would like to sell the 24-year-old after signing Liam Delap and Jo\u00e3o Pedro earlier in the summer to bolster their attack.<\/p>\n

Pedro was also a top striker target for Newcastle, with the Tyneside club also been beaten to Hugo Ekitike by Liverpool this summer before moving on to Sekso who they have now been beaten to by Manchester United, and Newcastle have faced similar struggles trying to recruit for other positions this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The problem is that Newcastle are struggling mightily to secure a replacement striker, which they want to do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[10599,403,99],"class_list":["post-64541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-liverpool-transfer-news-rumours","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64541","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=64541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}