Not much context to add to this one, really. Just your standard, run-of-the-mill early-season game. Ah. The ever-present embers of a classic Premier League fixture have been stoked to a full-blown raging inferno by the interminable Alexander Isak transfer saga. The Newcastle striker has doused the fire in fuel by going public with his desire to leave Tyneside amid Liverpool’s pursuit of his services. The Swede’s social media proclamation that promises had been “broken” — and his club’s swift riposte that no such assurances had ever been made — has ratcheted up the fervour around...

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