That in turn superseded Chelsea’s purchase of Moises Caicedo for 115 million pounds ($146 million) in August 2023.
It makes Isak the fourth most expensive player of all time — in dollars — after Neymar (joined Paris Saint-Germain for $262 million in 2017), Kylian Mbappé (joined PSG for $216 million in 2018) and Philippe Coutinho (joined Barcelona in a deal worth $192 million in 2018). While agitating for the move, Isak trained away from the main Newcastle squad for weeks and missed the team’s first three Premier League matches of the season — including one against Liverpool.
Liverpool made a reported bid of 110 million pounds for Isak during the offseason and bided its time before coming back with a second, ultimately successful offer for the striker, who netted 23 goals in the Premier League last season to finish second in the scoring chart behind Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah.
That has been accepted by Newcastle, which failed last week — after talks with Isak — in a last-ditch attempt to keep him at the Saudi-controlled club.
