For a few weeks now, the name Isak (worth €75 million according to the specialist website Transfermark) has started to be heard again at Can Barça. The Newcastle striker is one of Deco‘s favourites to reinforce the ‘9’ position with a view to the short and medium-term future. Beyond the complications that his incorporation may entail, which is difficult at the moment, it can be stressed that Isak is an old folder at Can Barça that has been on the list of possible players for a long time.
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Specifically, since Eric Abidal and Ramon Planes were in the technical secretariat and the footballer began to stand out in Real Sociedad. His qualities attracted attention. Physical power and stride, accompanied by a good ability to carry the ball, and association, are key in a team that dominates games and cannot live off forwards who only go to space. At that time, he only needed to improve his relationship with the goal, but he already had great games with Real. These days, for example, coinciding with the draw for the Copa semi-finals, his great game at the Bernabéu is remembered, in which he scored two goals and an assist in a historic 3-4 for Imanol’s team. It was in February 2020.
At that time, his price was still reasonable. Three seasons after his arrival at Real, he left the txuri-urdin club leaving 70 million euros in cash, and went to Newcastle, but he has never stopped being in Barça’s orbit. His figures with the Hurricanes are excellent (54 goals and nine assists). His signing, however, would only be a real possibility if Lewandowski steps aside.
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Barça considers that the number ‘9’ position is filled with the Pole and Ferran. And although Isak occasionally played on the left during his time at Real, he is already a specialist. It is difficult to think, at least if the season ends in the direction it is going, that Barça will sit down with Lewandowski to suggest his departure. However, Isak’s old folder will continue to be a topic of conversation at Barça.