Gyokeres defends Sweden team-mate Isak after Liverpool switch 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 cope with the Premier League champions on deadline day, arriving at Anfield for a reported £125m price, which is a British switch report.

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

Gyokeres additionally discovered himself in the same state of affairs earlier than finishing his £63.5m (€73.5m) change to Arsenal from Sporting CP earlier this summer time.

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 approach.

“I congratulated Isak for the transfer,” Gyokeres stated. “I don’t actually know the state of affairs precisely, so it’s tough for me to talk about that.

“When it’s a participant that isn’t 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 speak surrounding their respective summer time 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 didn’t 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, in fact, need to attain the World Cup subsequent 12 months and if we have now the perfect gamers obtainable within the workforce, that’s in fact going to assist.

“We performed a number of 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.”