Can Liverpool afford to sign Isak? Would sales need to be made?
Sky Sports News' Mark McAdam:
Quite simply, Liverpool can afford to do a deal for Isak because they are very sensibly and sustainably run by owners FSG and they have been for a number of years.
I spoke with an independent football finance expert who told me Liverpool could spend ÂŁ500m in this summer's transfer window and still be PSR compliant because they are so well run.
In last summer's window, they only spent ÂŁ12.5m on Federico Chiesa. They also generated around ÂŁ60m in player sales. That means they've got a big wedge of cash in their pocket from last summer that was unspent, and that's helping them this summer.
Their turnover was ÂŁ614m in their last set of accounts. It's going to be even more next time because of the commercial success, the football success and the bonuses that are attached to a lot of those commercial packages that they've set up. Therefore, the income is going to go up too.
In terms of player sales, Liverpool have generated more than ÂŁ60m already. The four players they've moved on this summer have either been academy players, who represent pure profit under PSR, or have been sold on for big profits.
Then, if you add in the likes of Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez and Harvey Elliott, those three players alone could raise another ÂŁ150m. That would also create space in the forward line, potentially.
When you take that into account, their net spend potentially starts looking quite healthy on top of being a really well-run club.
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