LIVERPOOL have signed striker Alexander Isak from Newcastle United for a British transfer record fee of £125m.
Newcastle sources claim the deal could be worth as much as £130m with add-ons.
Isak is undergone medical on Monday before signing a six-year contract.
They had an original £110m offer for Isak rejected in August but are now set to land their first-choice target of the summer.
The protracted saga involving the 25-year-old appears set to come to an end on the final day of the transfer window, and it follows Newcastle having signed striker Nick Woltemade from Stuttgart last week.
However, Liverpool failed to complete a £35m deal to sign England defender Marc Guehi from Crystal Palace.
The 25-year-old had a medical with the Reds, but Palace’s failure to sign a replacement meant the deal collapsed.
Liverpool have already broken their club transfer record this summer by signing Germany attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz in a deal worth an initial £100m, with a further £16m in add-ons.
Isak’s arrival would top that outlay. After also bringing in Guehi, Hugo Ekitike, Milos Kerkez, Jeremie Frimpong, Giorgi Mamardashvili, Armin Pecsi and Giovanni Leoni, the deal would take the club’s spending to about £451.2m without add-on fees – the highest total in Premier League history.
It is only the second time that an English side has shelled out more than £400m in a single summer, following Chelsea’s £401.2m outlay in 2023.
Meanwhile, the departures of Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez, Jarell Quansah, Caoimhin Kelleher, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Tyler Morton and Ben Doak have recouped an initial amount of about £190m.
