Liverpool have completed the signing of striker Alexander Isak from Newcastle United in a British-record deal.
The Premier League champions had a £125 million ($170m) bid accepted for the Sweden international in the early hours of Monday morning, and he has put pen to paper on a six-year deal at Anfield.
It brings an end to one of the summer’s most-protracted transfer sagas, with Isak having spent more than a month agitating for a move away from Newcastle.
The 25-year-old has not featured for Eddie Howe’s side this season and released a sensational statement earlier this month in which he claimed promises had been „broken“ by the Newcastle hierarchy and insisted a move this summer would be in the best interests of all parties.
Isak become the most expensive signing in Premier League history, surpassing Chelsea’s Moisés Caicedo who joined the London club for £115m from Brighton in the summer of 2023.
It marks the second time this summer that Liverpool have broken their club transfer record, with Arne Slot’s side having committed spending an initial £100m — plus a potential £16m in add-ons — to sign Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen in June.
It also takes Liverpool’s summer spending to over £400m, though the departures of several first-team players — including Luis Díaz and Darwin Núñez — have helped to offset the club’s significant financial outlay.
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