Gyokeres defends Sweden team-mate Isak after Liverpool transfer saga

Viktor Gyokeres has leapt to the defence of Sweden team-mate Alexander Isak following his summer-long switch saga that led to his transfer to Liverpool.

Isak put pen to paper on a six-year take care of the Premier League champions on deadline day, arriving at Anfield for a reported £125m price, which is a British switch file.

The 25-year-old’s standoff with earlier membership Newcastle United was the story of the switch window, with Isak exiled from the Magpies’ squad as he pushed for a transfer away.

Isak prompt that Newcastle had damaged guarantees about the potential of leaving, together with his assertion coming after Newcastle turned down an preliminary bid of £110m from Liverpool.

Gyokeres additionally discovered himself in an identical scenario earlier than finishing his £63.5m (€73.5m) change to Arsenal from Sporting CP earlier this summer season.

The Swede confronted disciplinary motion from his former membership after failing to show up for coaching at Sporting as he pushed for a transfer to the Premier League.

In response to a query on “participant energy,” after each strikers pushed for his or her transfers, Gyokeres insisted that not everybody will get their manner.

“I congratulated Isak for the transfer,” Gyokeres mentioned. “I don’t actually know the scenario precisely, so it’s troublesome for me to discuss that.

“When it’s a participant that’s not wished in a membership, I believe it’s the entire reverse. He doesn’t have any energy, the membership can actually do no matter they need.”

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Away from discuss surrounding their respective summer season switches, Gyokeres was requested about his relationship with Isak forward of their upcoming World Cup qualifying fixtures.

Sweden get their qualification marketing campaign underway this Friday with a visit to Slovenia earlier than travelling to Stadiumi Fadil Vokrri to tackle Kosovo three days later.

Gyokeres has scored 15 objectives in 26 appearances for his nation, one lower than Isak, although the latter has appeared in precisely double the variety of video games for Sweden.

Sweden did not qualify for the 2022 version of the World Cup in Qatar, however Gyokeres believes the workforce have the standard to place that proper this time round.

“It’s at all times good to have good gamers within the nationwide workforce,” Gyokeres added.

“We, after all, need to attain the World Cup subsequent yr and if we’ve got the very best gamers obtainable within the workforce, that’s after all going to assist.

“We performed just a few video games collectively and felt good. He’s scored, I’ve scored and we’ve assisted one another. I believe it’s good to maintain going and enhance extra with the workforce.”