{"id":1189352,"date":"2022-08-24T18:24:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T18:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/24\/newcastle-agree-club-record-deal-for-alexander-isak\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T18:24:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T18:24:32","slug":"newcastle-agree-club-record-deal-for-alexander-isak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/24\/newcastle-agree-club-record-deal-for-alexander-isak\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle agree club record deal for Alexander Isak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image_2022-08-24_154413904-696x392.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Alexander Isak is set to leave Real Sociedad \/ Quality Sport Images\/GettyImages\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Isak is set to leave Real Sociedad \/ Quality Sport Images\/GettyImages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Newcastle are in advanced talks with Real Sociedad to sign striker Alexander Isak for a fee in the region of \u00a358m.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Ashworth, Newcastle\u2019s sporting director, and Steve Nickson, the club\u2019s head of recruitment, are in Spain as they look to complete the move.<\/p>\n<p>The deal would represent a club record for Newcastle, eclipsing the \u00a340m they paid Hoffenheim for Joelinton in 2019 and Lyon for Bruno Guimaraes in January.<\/p>\n<p>Isak has been at Real Sociedad since the summer of 2019, when he arrived from Borussia Dortmund, and has scored 44 goals in 132 appearances \u2013 including one in the 4-1 La Liga defeat to Barcelona on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old also has nine goals in 37 caps for Sweden, the first of which came when he was just 17 and made him his country\u2019s youngest goalscorer.<\/p>\n<p>If Isak completes his move to St James\u2019 Park, he will become Newcastle\u2019s fourth signing of the summer, following the arrivals of Sven Botman, Matt Targett and Nick Pope, and eighth permanent arrival since the Saudi-backed consortium\u2019s takeover last autumn.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"dio3pL4BebI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fire For Fire on Adom TV (23-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dio3pL4BebI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Isak is set to leave Real Sociedad \/ Quality Sport Images\/GettyImages Newcastle are in advanced talks with Real Sociedad to sign striker Alexander Isak for a fee in the region of \u00a358m. Dan Ashworth, Newcastle\u2019s sporting director, and Steve Nickson, the club\u2019s head of recruitment, are in Spain as they look to complete the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[806,715,1665,807,24269,6136,998],"class_list":["post-1189352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-agree","tag-alexander","tag-club","tag-deal","tag-isak","tag-newcastle","tag-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}