Alexander Isak is in the middle of a tug of war between Newcastle and Liverpool.
Sunsport makes a business whether he should lead the tone to the Champions League or should become the most expensive player of Great Britain and join Arne Slot's Reds.
Tyne to go … says Martin Lipton
For Alexander Isak it is not about the money – it must be about the challenge.
And although he can stay a 'local hero' on Tyneside by staying in Newcastle, his things on the Anfield stage under the leadership of Arne Slot will hardly resist.
The Swede flourished for Eddie Howe in the tone in his three years.
Seen as a less than Clinical Finisher at Real Sociedad, Isak, 25, is a completely different proposition with Newcastle.
He has delivered 54 Premier League goals in the three seasons since his Toon-Record £ 60 million relocation, with 62 in all competitions and a career club total of 129.
Just those figures help suggest why Liverpool is ready to break the British record and pay £ 120 million to lure the Swede.
But 6ft 3in Isak has become an all -round striker: physically robust, able to fall short or run behind, quickly and just as well in the air as when he has the ball at his feet.
In short, exactly what a side that wants to conquer Europe and the Premory.
And given the chance of becoming the new spearhead of the well-drilled head machine from lock, it will make a man of strict determined decision to say “no” before the wage offer is made. Newcastle is ready to throw everything they have to keep Isak.
But if Liverpool likes to pay £ 120 million to land him, they will be willing to offer more than £ 250,000 a week – doubles his Toon Pay package.
Isak knows that he would be the head weapon in Slot's already stacked attacking arsenal.
Mo Salah has been from his largest season so far – with 29 goals and 18 assists in the Prem alone.
Cody Gakpo, who made his own left -sided attacking place, got 18 goals in all competitions.
And don't forget Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai, the best combination in the last term of the competition, plus the newly acquired creativity and quality of £ 100 million grade a Schemer Florian Wirtz.
Even the most pious soldier in the Toon Army could not, in the heart, say that Isak can win more with them than Liverpool.
If you hang your boots, people don't ask what you have earned. They ask what you won.
Tyne to stay … says Gary Stonehouse
He is Alexander the Great … but the biggest thing is another matter.
The possibility to overthrow the Newcastle icon Alan Shearer – both in numbers and form – should be something that the Swede enjoys.
The lures of Liverpool, both financially and on the field, is difficult for everyone to resist, let alone one of the most popular attackers in Europe.
But the chance to prove yourself as the very best in a club that is famous for its attackers should be even more difficult to reject.
That, plus the promise of a long -term agreement to make him the highest earner of Newcastle, should be everything ISAK thinks about.
He enjoys a divine status on Tyneside after his goal turned out to be decisive in achieving a 2-1 Carabao Cup final victory over Liverpool in Wembley in March.
Even Shearer could not deliver a trophy to the long-suffered tone army.
Every Geordie would tell you that Isak has already reimbursed the club record £ 60 million, the Magpies paid Real Sociedad in 2022.
Despite the end of that 70-year-old waiting for large domestic silverware, Isak has a long way to go to exceed Shearer's club record of 206 goals.
But his record of 62 in 109 performances suggests that he could lead the side of Eddie Howe to even more success. Some even believe that the 25-year-old could surpass the count of Shearer.
The incentives do not stop there. Toon sources have already indicated that they will break the club's £ 150,000 a weekly wage ceiling to keep it.
That would yield a net wage increase of at least £ 70,000 a week and an annual package with a value of more than £ 10 million.
The pursuit for Eintracht Frankfurt -striker Hugo Ekitike shows that Newcastle is planning to illuminate the burden for a man who has tackled a broken toe and a hamstring problem in the past two seasons with three groin injuries.
The magpies have already added to the supply line of Isak by bringing in Anthony Elanga.
And plans for a mega new Stadium-Plus Champions League qualification for the second time in three seasons show that Saudi-stunned tone are ready to mix it at the top table.
And if he signs a long -term agreement, you would support Isak to shoot in the 145 goals needed in the next six or seven years to become Alexander the largest.
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