Liverpool tapping up of Alexander Isak – This was the moment 5 months ago when they started it | OneFootball

The behaviour of Liverpool Football Club throughout this Alexander Isak saga has been absolutely disgraceful.

Rather than being professional and doing things the right way.

Instead, Liverpool using the media to try and cause as many problems as possible within Newcastle United.

With the express intention of trying to sign Alexander Isak on the cheap.

Liverpool inciting the player and his agent to cause as many problems as possible, to try and force Newcastle United to think they have no other option to sell their star goalscorer for tens of millions less than their valuation.

So when did this all start?

When did Liverpool begin their dirty tricks campaign?

Well, I think I have pinpointed the exact moment five months ago.

To be precise, five months and five days ago.

This was when the very public tapping up of Alexander Isak by Liverpool kicked off.

I wrote about it at the time on Tuesday 18 March 2025, ‘coincidentally’ after Newcastle United had humbled Liverpool at Wembley.

This headline from the official Liverpool FC website popped up on my Newcastle United online feed:

‘Liverpool make ‘contact’ over Alexander Isak transfer as fresh claims made’

We get used to seeing all kinds of extreme nonsense that you instantly dismiss because it is the usual shameless media sites with their cheating headlines and/or totally made up stories.

However, this was the OFFICIAL Liverpool FC website, their club’s own OFFICIAL media.

What on earth is happening I thought.

Liverpool have clearly now made it official that they have been in contact with Newcastle United to try and sign Alexander Isak.

Absolutely gutted, I clicked in to see the full story on the OFFICIAL Liverpool FC website…

‘Liverpool make ‘contact’ over Alexander Isak transfer as fresh claims made

‘Liverpool are continuing to be linked with a move for Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak ahead of the summer transfer window.

The Reds do not have long to wait before the market opens and they are able to strengthen their squad with new signings.

Isak has been tentatively linked with a move to Anfield in recent months, particularly since the January transfer window.

(This story has been reproduced from the media. It does not necessarily represent the position of Liverpool Football Club.)’

When reading this back on 18 March, I went from feeling gutted, to becoming very very angry.

What on earth are Liverpool FC playing at?

They can’t have it both ways.

They can’t publish that headline and reproduce this absolute nonsense, then say by the way, this is nothing to do with us, it is just what this website (Liverpool Echo) is saying about us!

The thing is, it was a factual thing they are stating in that headline on the OFFICIAL Liverpool FC site, that was being put out around the internet.

Liverpool FC as a club were saying ‘Liverpool make contact over Alexander Isak transfer’…

They, Liverpool FC, know whether or not this is fact, or whether that headline is totally untrue. Had they made contact with Newcastle United or not?

I think quite clearly they hadn’t done so BUT had gone down this quite shameful route of trying to unsettle Alexander Isak, by pushing this headline out.

Their attempted get out clause is that bit where they say ‘It does not necessarily represent the position of Liverpool Football Club’…

It was beyond laughable, why were Liverpool FC as a football club choosing to do this, there could be only one reason why they were putting the headline and story out, repeating it from the equally shameless Liverpool Echo. There was no good reason for doing this, only very grubby reasons that show Liverpool FC up for what they really are.

So is any rubbish in the media fair game for Liverpool FC to put on their own official website, are there no limits to what they are prepared to publish/republish?

To do this only two days after Newcastle United totally dominated them on the pitch and deservedly won the Carabao Cup, Liverpool a distant second and the scoreline very much flattering the losers.

With everything we know now, with everything that has happened since, we absolutely know what Liverpool Football Club are about.

This was the very start of Liverpool’s dirty tricks campaign with Alexander Isak. The very public tapping up of another club’s player. Liverpool determined to create as much mischief as possible to try and get another club’s player, on the cheap.