{"id":17695,"date":"2025-08-28T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17695"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:04:08","slug":"alexander-isak-selected-by-sweden-despite-newcastle-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17695","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak selected by Sweden despite Newcastle standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"
Newcastle forward Alexander Isak has been called up by Sweden for World Cup qualifiers despite being sidelined by his club as he tries to force a move to Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Isak is part of Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson’s squad for the games against Slovenia and Kosovo on September 5 and 8.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old has been banished from the Newcastle squad and has been training alone ever since he missed the club’s tour to Singapore and South Korea.<\/p>\n

Liverpool have bid \u00a3110 million ($148 million) for Isak so far but Saudi-owned Newcastle are reported to have slapped a \u00a3150 million price tag on the player who scored 23 Premier League goals last season and helped his club win the League Cup.<\/p>\n

Tomasson said the 2026 World Cup, to be played in Mexico, Canada and the United States, was “important” to Isak.<\/p>\n

“The situation he is in is not perfect and he has not trained with his team,” the coach said.<\/p>\n

“But he is a player who can be decisive and he wants to be part of our team. The World Cup is important for Alexander Isak,” he added.<\/p>\n

Isak’s standoff with Newcastle has been the main Premier League transfer saga of the summer as the player insists he was told by the club he could leave.<\/p>\n

He issued a statement on August 20 saying: “When promises are broken and trust is lost, the relationship can’t continue.”<\/p>\n

“That’s where things are for me right now – and why change is in the best interests of everyone, not just myself.”<\/p>\n

That prompted a blunt answer from Newcastle, who said: “We are clear in response that Alex remains under contract and that no commitment has ever been made by a club official that Alex can leave Newcastle United this summer.”<\/p>\n

Isak reportedly held talks with Newcastle’s senior management this week and insisted he still wants to join Liverpool, the reigning Premier League champions.<\/p>\n

As the clock ticks down to the end of the transfer window, Newcastle have had two bids for Norwegian international striker Jorgen Strand Larsen rejected by Wolves.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newcastle forward Alexander Isak has been called up by Sweden for World Cup qualifiers despite being sidelined by his club as he tries to force a move to Liverpool. Isak is part of Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson’s squad for the games against Slovenia and Kosovo on September 5 and 8. The 26-year-old has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}