Isak signs with Liverpool from Newcastle for record British fee: Report

The Premier League champions’ signing of the Swedish planetary closes the summer’s astir drawn-out transportation saga.

English Premier League champions Liverpool person agreed to motion Alexander Isak from Newcastle United for a grounds British transportation fee, according to aggregate media reports.

The Swedish guardant is acceptable to articulation the Reds successful a woody worthy astir 130 cardinal pounds ($176m), according to reports connected Monday by The Athletic and The Telegraph, among different outlets.

The Athletic reported that Isak volition acquisition a aesculapian connected Monday earlier completing a six-year woody with the Merseyside club.

The 25-year-old striker scored 23 goals successful the Premier League past play – down lone Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah – arsenic Newcastle qualified for the Champions League.

But helium has been the taxable of a protracted and occasionally acrimonious transportation saga this summer, grooming distant from the remainder of the Newcastle squad aft making wide his tendency to determination to Liverpool.

On Saturday, Newcastle signed German planetary striker Nick Woltemade for a grounds nine interest reported to beryllium worthy up to 69 cardinal pounds ($93m) successful what was seen arsenic paving the mode for Isak’s departure.

Liverpool volition person the 2 starring extremity scorers from past season’s Premier League erstwhile they brace up Alexander Isak, 2nd from right, with Mohamed Salah, not pictured [File: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images]