Alexander Isak will command a new Premier League record transfer fee if he moves to Liverpool

Alexander Isak’s on-off transfer from Newcastle United to Liverpool will not be of interest only to fans and bean-counters on Tyneside and Merseyside.

The protracted deal is also one for the transfer data crunchers and historians of English football’s top flight, given that it could represent the passing of multiple financial milestones.

Isak’s transfer fee looks certain to be a new record purchase for a Premier League, perhaps as much as £150m – a threshold breached in the global market on only two occasions.

On top of that, it could contribute to a domino effect that takes total spending by the top 20 English clubs close to £3bn for the first transfer window in history.

To put that into per

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