Newcastle United have agreed the British record £130m sale of Alexander Isak to Liverpool, who will hand him their No 9 shirt and a six-year contract.

In a huge overnight development a fee was agreed to end a months-long saga in the early hours of Monday morning. Isak will head to Merseyside later today to complete a medical and the formalities of the transfer that he has pushed for since first indicating an unwillingness to play again for the club back in July.

Losing Isak is a bitter blow for Newcastle, who have seen their entire summer disrupted by the saga, and there will be criticism of majority owners, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, for agreeing to the sale of their star striker without meeting the conditions they listed on a statement released in reaction to his own bombsh

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