£125 million. Without a proper pre-season. Alexander Isak’s debut season was not what Liverpool supporters had expected. When the Swede also picked up a nasty injury and missed a large part of the season, there were murmurs among the supporters, who saw his back-to-back title disappear out of reach already in the autumn. Before the start of the season, Iraola promised something big was going on with the Swede, on Friday came the first confirmation.
We rewind to the end of July, when Iraola told the supporters about what he had seen of Isaac so far promising extremely well. “Alex is exciting, he’s come to a good place, had a good World Cup, he’s comfortable… With three or four weeks of good training, I hope and believe that he will be in a good place. Because he will be huge for us,” Iraola promised.
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A little over a month later, Alexander Isak was in the lead role against Ipswich with two goals in the first nine minutes!
The Liverpool coach again highlighted the “huge” label.
“He’s a huge player for us. My demands on him are probably not about the number of goals – I know he’s in good shape and the goals will come. Our game is more about everything else: how he can help the team in different phases of the game. But of course it’s pleasing that he’s already played two full games and found the back of the net. I’m very happy to have him in the squad,” Iraola said after the game.
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With this, the Premier League’s second-highest scoring player in the 2024/25 season stands with three goals in the first three Premier League games. As many as he scored under Slot during playing time in 14 Premier League games last season.
Liverpool supporters can breathe a sigh of relief, Alexander Isak is at Anfield still in the role of top scorer.
