The training that the Royal Society provided this morning in the Zubieta facilities had the Short stories from Alexander Isak and Mathew Ryanwho played his first pre-season session after having had more vacation days than his teammates having contested june international matches with their respective teams. The Forward He took part in three (all as a starter) of the four games played by the Swedish team in Nations League (the other missed it due to some discomfort against Serbia), while the the goalkeeper signed with the Australia team an epic qualification for the Qatar 2022 World Cup after winning on penalties (goalkeeper txuri-urdin was substituted shortly before for substitute Andrew Redmayne to try to impose his condition ‘on penalties’) in Peru in the last game of the qualifiers.
In this way, both were greeted with jokes and atmosphere by their peers before undergoing another typical pre-season preparation session before facing the first friendly this Saturday against Toulouse at Anoeta (7:00 p.m.). Despite the fact that they have only been training for a week, Imanol wants his players to arrive with a good rhythm in the game against a rounder rival.
It should be noted that Isak has been making headlines in recent days for the interest shown by English Newcastle (this is also on the agenda of other big European clubs) to resume their services. According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, the club of Premier League reportedly willing to shell out ยฃ50m (about 60 million euros) for the signing of the Nordic striker, who has contract until 2026 and whose termination clause amounts to 90 million euros. An amount, if this statement is true, which would make consider the transfer to the noble floor of Anoeta despite the fact that the president of Real, Jokin Aperribay declared last Monday, in the presentation frame by Brais Mรฉndez as a new txuri-urdin footballer, that they will not sell any of their important players.
“The other clubs already know that we don’t want to sell and that our intention is not to transfer any of these footballers that you have in mind,” said the head of the Gipuzkoa entity, when asked about the interest of some clubs in Isaac or Michael Merino. That said, that’s the initial idea of โโthe leaders of Real, but another thing is the reality in which a market can have fluctuations at the least expected moment. Until 11:59 p.m. on September 1, the day the market closes, nothing is guaranteed.