Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike transfer news: Which striker will Newcastle and Liverpool move for in transfer window? | Football News

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Sky Sports take a look at the war tug attacker in Newcastle and Liverpool involving Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike – and answers key questions from the transfer saga.

What striker Liverpool will: Isak or Ekitike?

Liverpool seems to focus on an agreement for Hugo Ekitike after being informed by Newcastle that Isak is not for sale.

One day after Newcastle saw an offer of 70 million pounds sterling for Ekitike rejected, the Reds opened the talks with Eintracht Frankfurt on Tuesday.

Sky Sports News has always believed that Isak is the target of Liverpool’s first choice striker – but Ekitike has always been among their main alternatives.

His game is very similar to that of Isak and it would be cheaper, but with potential to become one of the attackers marked by the Premier League after a successful year in Germany.

How can Liverpool afford to sign an attacker after signing Florian Wirtz?

The relative lack of Liverpool activity in the latest windows is one of the main reasons why their finances are healthy.

The club’s financial files have indicated that they could potentially lose 200 million pounds Sterling this summer and always comply with the profit and sustainability rules (PSR) – where clubs are authorized to lose 105 million pounds Sterling over a period of three years.

According to the expert in football finance Swiss Ramble, the most recent financial results of the Reds have shown that Liverpool do 48 million pounds sterling during the PSR period in three years today, partly due to modest recent transfer expenses.

This means that Liverpool can lose an additional 158 million pounds and are still in accordance next summer.

And although Liverpool has already spent around 185 million pounds sterling for new players in the current window – including the costs of up to 116 million pounds Sterling for Florian Wirtz – The Reds posted a record for club record of 613.8 million pounds Sterling for the 2023-24 season, partly due to commercial success.

This figure will only increase the accounts of the 2024-25 season since Liverpool added football in the Champions League, the qualification with direct elimination for this tournament and has also become champion of the Premier League.

The product of the Jarell Quansah Academy has already joined Bayer Leverkusen in an agreement of 35 million pounds sterling which represents 100% profits under the PSR rules, and the Reds could further increase sales figures by the end of the summer.

Darwin Nunez, Harvey Elliott and Luiz Diaz are all other potential starts, although Diaz’s release is currently less likely despite Bayern Munich’s attempts to predict him.

Does Newcastle have a dilemma?

Although the situation of the two clubs and the two strikers concerned is complicated, many have already simplified the situation in Liverpool presenting Newcastle with this dilemma: sell us your star attacker where we will rather move for your target of main attackers.

Since Ekitike has always been a player that Liverpool wanted, and that Newcastle was firm on Isak, it is more likely that Liverpool did a last check on if Isak is possible before putting their eggs in the Ekitike basket.

As the Premier League title winners, Liverpool is attractive potential employers.

But timing is essential for Newcastle, who tried to sign Ekitike in the summer of 2022, before deciding to go to PSG.

If Isak is not going This In summer, the Swedish international is very likely to leave next year.

The recruitment of Ekitike would now allow Newcastle to inform it this season before it potentially takes the principal man’s coat next summer. This would also give Newcastle the freedom to make a choice on Isak because the purchase of Ekitike (or any other attacker) would be cheaper now than after the prospect of a record sale in Liverpool. Clubs know that Newcastle has money to burn and increase their prices.

The Magpies have already missed Liam Delap and Joao Pedro – both in Chelsea – and should now have to return to the drawing board.

However, if they are again Gazudiés, there are many more high -level options on the market, including Benjamin Sesko and Yoane Wissa.

Newcastle has a lot of strategic reflection to do.

Could Isak and Ekitike really play together?

It is a fascinating proposal, if the pendulum to be reduced in favor of Newcastle.

That Eddie Howe plans a 4-2-4 with Anthony Elaga and Anthony Gordon flanking the duo on the wings, or moves a wide star to use them both, we may never know.

But Ekitike would have unlikely to be signed on the bench, with the plan to complete Isak – at least this season – as had been hope for Joao Pedro before opting for Chelsea instead.

Isak and Ekitike are very similar players. Not only are the figures of the league of clerks are almost identical, but they also adopt similar areas of the terrain.

Ekitike’s heat and pass cards allude to them by doing several of the same things – descending deeply towards the central circle but maintaining a penalty box.

With the football of the Champions League and so many games, it would probably have been more likely that they were interchangeable than deployable as the first two.

If Liverpool does not receive Isak or Ekitike, then who could he move instead?

Jamie Carragher said earlier this summer, Liverpool needed a center-forward and wanted to change this position by allowing Darwin to go potentially.

It now seems that they will grow for Ekitike and have a good chance of getting it – but it is always possible that they are with either.

It will certainly take more than what would have been a record offer of Newcastle Club of 70 million pounds Sterling to release Ekitike from Frankfurt.

There is no shortage of attackers’ options on the current market. Victor Osimhen is certainly a player that Liverpool has on his radar for a while as well as Benjamin Sesko.

Ollie Watkins, who was a target for Arsenal in January, has another player than the Reds would have been linked.

Liverpool’s decision for Ekitike was more encouraged than that of Newcastle as it is, but in football – especially in the transfer window – there is no guarantee. A telephone call and suddenly everything moves …