Chelsea considering £60m move for Arsenal target Alexander Isak who played under Thomas Tuchel at Borussia Dortmund
The German coach knows the striker well from their time at BVB (Picture: Getty
Metro Sport Reporter
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Sunday 20 Jun 2021
Chelsea are considering a move for Real Sociedad striker Alexander Isak as an alternative to Erling Haaland, with Thomas Tuchel having worked with the striker at Borussia Dortmund.
The west London club have made a new number nine their top priority this summer but look set to miss out on Haaland, who will stay at BVB for one more year, so have had to draw up a new list of targets.
Isak is one of the highest-rated young strikers in Europe and has impressed at Euro 2020 https://metro.co.uk/tag/euro-2020/?ico= ... rt_P3_LNK1 for Sweden, while Arsenal are rumoured to be keen to lure him away from Sociedad. https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/09/edu-driv ... -14745633/
Isak has impressed against Spain and Slovakia at Euro 2020 (Picture: Getty)
Now AS https://as.com/futbol/2021/06/19/primer ... 97793.html report that the Gunners are not the only Premier League side interested in Isak, with Chelsea also following him closely and considering making an offer.
Isak will not come cheap, though, with Sociedad adamant he will not be sold for less than his £60million buyout clause; Dortmund did have a £25m buyback agreement, but the Spanish side have bought that out as they look to land a mammoth fee.
Chelsea boss Tuchel knows Isak from their time in Germany, though they only worked together briefly with the Swede’s arrival actually a point of conflict between the manager and Dortmund’s board.
Tuchel had not been informed of Isak’s arrival back in January 2017, and he would part company with the club just a few months later, though he was appreciative of the then teenager’s ability and talent.
said Tuchel at the time.Alex is a very strong striker, who can play with his back toward goal and is strong in the combination,
He scores a lot of goals, so it is great to have him here.
The signing of Isak makes perfect sense. This gives the club a long-term solution for the position of striker. Isak is a very talented player.
We needed someone behind [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang following Adrian Ramos’ departure. It is completely logical for BVB to bring in a youngster for that role.
Isak arrived at Dortmund as a 17-year-old four years ago (Picture: Getty)
Although Isak did not quite make the grade at Dortmund, he has thrived in La Liga with Sociedad and scored 17 goals last season, while he was named Star of the Match in Sweden’s win over Slovakia at Euro 2020 recently.
Sociedad are hoping to convince Isak to remain at the club this summer, though they are aware of the growing interest in the forward and have already informed his entourage that his buyout clause will need to be paid if he is to leave.
Chelsea are eager to sign a new goalscorer, with Timo Werner having struggled to convert chances in his maiden campaign, while they are also in the market for a new right wing-back and have been in talks with Inter to sign Achraf Hakimi, another former Dortmund player.
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REAL SOCIEDAD
Borussia is no longer a problem
"Borussia accepts that he remains at La Real," said Aperribay, who has reached an agreement to eliminate the repurchase clause for 30 million, and it will be 70 million for everyone.
Roberto Ramajo
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June 19, 2021
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Borussia Dortmund is no longer a problem for Alexander Isak.
Jokin Aperribay announced at the Gipuzkoa Business Forum organized by El Diario Vasco, confirming the agreement that both entities have reached to annul that buy-back clause that Dortmund had from this summer until the end of THE Swedish striker's contract with Real Sociedad, for which he could recover it by paying 30 million euros, less than half of his termination clause that he has for the rest of the teams, estimated at 70 million euros.They accept that he remains at Real,
This same week the German newspaper Kicker had already published that in the conversations between both clubs, Borussia Dortmund demanded the payment of an amount to be able to nullify that buyback clause. Said and done, because shortly after, the Real reached an agreement with the German club to annul that clause and that it can no longer recover Alexander Isak until 2024 for 30 million euros. The Dortmund stops, therefore, as Aperribay said that past Thursday, to be a problem; which does not mean that the danger of a possible departure from the Swede this summer has completely disappeared. There are other dangers, which are likely to enter the scene as the summer progresses, because the Premier League market is going crazy with the Swede, with Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal marking him closely. For this, the San Sebastian club must prepare now, and that is what it has been trying to do for a long time, trying to close a contract improvement with an increase in the clause for Isak.
However, let no one think that it has been so simple for Real, because in order to eliminate that buy-back clause, they will have to pay Borussia Dortmund an amount, a figure that has not transpired and that although it is not excessively high, it does not stop be somewhat curious. Because the Real does not pay for the remaining percentage of its federative rights, as happened in its day with Vela and Rulli; rather, it pays for a club not to 'threaten' him with paying 30 million for their star striker. Although if we add that in that way, at least, it is ensured that if someone pays the Isak clause, they take 70 million, perhaps it makes more sense. Or that from now on he will have more freedom to negotiate a possible sale of the Swedish player, sending a message to interested clubs that, logically, for less than 30 million he will not come out, or perhaps more, taking into account what in its day he paid for Isak to Dortmund (6.5 million) and what he pays now, with what the purchase of Isak may have cost the Donostiarras for an amount that will be around 10 million euros.
However, the Real are not willing today to reduce a single euro of the 70 million euros of the Alexander Isak clause, because under no circumstances do they want to lose their star starting striker this summer. This has already been made known to their representative and to Isak himself, insisting, in addition, on their intention to improve the conditions that they had agreed to in their day and with which the Swede agreed, but that he never signed, advised Because of his surroundings, he saw that something like what is happening could happen, given his spectacular level.
Isak is right now among the fittest and most sought-after forwards on the European market. And in the Real, that also feared that the Eurocopa put it more in the market, they tried to get him to sign the contract improvement and the increase of his clause before leaving for the concentration of Sweden. They did not succeed, and now they continue to work to convince him, preparing for when the great Europeans knock on his door. Because if he continues to hold performances like the one on Friday against Slovakia, being MVP of the match, this summer they will call for sure. And then if the future will be unknown, despite having a contract until 2024. But for now, the danger of Dortmund has been removed from them. It's something.
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