{"id":51974,"date":"2025-07-26T19:06:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=51974"},"modified":"2025-07-26T19:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:06:46","slug":"howe-confident-isak-will-stay-at-newcastle-despite-transfer-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/howe-confident-isak-will-stay-at-newcastle-despite-transfer-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Howe Confident Isak Will Stay at Newcastle Despite Transfer Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle manager Eddie Howe insisted Saturday that Alexander Isak is still a Newcastle player despite speculation around a move to Premier League champions Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Isak has not travelled with Newcastle for their pre-season tour of Asia, apparently because of a minor thigh injury, but Howe said the 25-year-old Swedish striker was a key part of his plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, there are always going to be things going on behind the scenes,&#8221; Howe told reporters in Singapore, where Newcastle play Arsenal on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is aware he&#8217;s in the news every day, which I&#8217;m sure is not easy for anyone in that situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Conversations between Alex and the club or with me will stay private for obvious reasons. We do share a good relationship,&#8221; Howe added.<\/p>\n<p>Isak, who scored 23 Premier League goals last season, has been &#8220;magnificent for us for as long as he has been with us,&#8221; said Howe. &#8220;And he is very comfortable in the dressing room.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle manager Eddie Howe insisted Saturday that Alexander Isak is still a Newcastle player despite speculation around a move to Premier League champions Liverpool. Isak has not travelled with Newcastle for their pre-season tour of Asia, apparently because of a minor thigh injury, but Howe said the 25-year-old Swedish striker was a key part of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51976,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51974\/revisions\/51976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}