They don't even need him! It's ridiculous money being talked about too.

Eintracht Frankfurt have turned down Newcastle’s club-record £70m offer for Hugo Ekitike. 

Sky Sports News can confirm the German club rejected Newcastle’s formal bid this morning, as first reported by Sky Germany. 

1 hour ago, awardinary said:

They don't even need him! It's ridiculous money being talked about too.

We need a striker. Nunez is off and not fancied by Klopp. The Isak stuff has been rumbling for weeks, I was a sceptic weeks ago but I genuinely think it’s most likely on. At the moment it’s PR in the media.

And as for Diaz, the issue Liverpool have at the moment is we don’t want too much change. We probably think we can rinse Bayern and we don’t need/want to sell as we’ll be pretty limited in attacking options.

There's no chance you're getting both Wirtz & Isak in the same window.

20 minutes ago, Dobbo said:

There's no chance you're getting both Wirtz & Isak in the same window.

I thought that too up until a month ago. I think there’s a huge chance it gets done.

Maybe the money is there and Isak wants it but it would be impossible for Newcastle to justify such a sale

31 minutes ago, Liam Sota said:

Maybe the money is there and Isak wants it but it would be impossible for Newcastle to justify such a sale

The journalists are a day or two behind on the story, same thing happened with Wirtz. Newcastle weren't spend £80m on Ekitike without selling Isak. Of course Newcastle don't want to sell, but with all of this story there will be a huge amount of PR involved. They could sell him this year, spend a load of money to reinvest in the squad and get out of their PSR troubles, or they can chance it and hold on to him. Who knows.

3 minutes ago, Rooney said:

The journalists are a day or two behind on the story, same thing happened with Wirtz. Newcastle weren't spend £80m on Ekitike without selling Isak. Of course Newcastle don't want to sell, but with all of this story there will be a huge amount of PR involved. They could sell him this year, spend a load of money to reinvest in the squad and get out of their PSR troubles, or they can chance it and hold on to him. Who knows.

From a fan point of view and as a club competing you cannot sell your best player and one of the few world class strikers to a rival. It would be signalling you’re not a big club. It would be demoralising for everybody at the club I just can’t see how they could justify it. Wilson left and he’s their only striker so they do need another and they’ve slashed big on Elanga so I don’t think they’re too worried about PSR and they have mega billionaire owners. So to me it looks like Liverpool have spoken to Isak’s agent and got a positive message and were trying to create a move rather than damage limitation PR from Newcastle but we shall see.

16 minutes ago, Liam Sota said:

From a fan point of view and as a club competing you cannot sell your best player and one of the few world class strikers to a rival. It would be signalling you’re not a big club. It would be demoralising for everybody at the club I just can’t see how they could justify it. Wilson left and he’s their only striker so they do need another and they’ve slashed big on Elanga so I don’t think they’re too worried about PSR and they have mega billionaire owners. So to me it looks like Liverpool have spoken to Isak’s agent and got a positive message and were trying to create a move rather than damage limitation PR from Newcastle but we shall see.

You don't spend £80m on a back up striker though. Ekitike is only going to come somewhere he will be first choice, he left PSG for that exact same reason. Saudi are back in the Nunez, Newcastle big for Ekitike and Liverpool make a play for Isak - none of those moves are coincidental. Newcastle also want Trafford for £40m, don't think they are spending £200m net this summer.

I think whatever happens will happen fairly quickly, so we'll see within the next 7 days I reckon.

I’d love Isak but think 150m is too much!

I wouldn’t sell Diaz as his athleticism is so important to our attack, would take an extra year of him then let him go to Barca!

Best transfer rumour yet! 😁

Basement journalism at its absolute finest.

I’d just take him for the lols!

Looks like Liverpool are going to sign Ekitike instead of Isak

Don’t really know much about him but seems a lot of money

So instead of stealing their striker they've gone for their target instead. 80M for a striker who scores 1 in 3 on average is ridiculous.

2 hours ago, Dobbo said:

So instead of stealing their striker they've gone for their target instead. 80M for a striker who scores 1 in 3 on average is ridiculous.

The whole striker market is bonkers, it's why prices are high but you can always sell them on too. Look at Nunez for example.

Never seen him play, but apparently he is an Isak clone.

Needed a striker so had to spend unfort, isak woukd always have been a luxury outlandish one!