Newcastle Captain Bruno Guimaraes publishes a statement after Alexander Isak withdrew from their pre-season tour

Newcastle United captain, Bruno Guimaraes, reacted to the recent storm involving his teammate Alexander Isak after telling the club that he wanted to leave.

Isak, who scored 27 goals all the competitions last season, was the subject of a strong interest in Liverpool and the Saudi Pro League, Al Hilal.

After making an approach, it seemed that Liverpool had cooled the interest for Isak when they stole a march on Newcastle to write to Hugo Ekitike for 79 million pounds Sterling.

But reports emerged that Isak had informed his employers that he wanted to explore his options for a move this summer.

The £ 150,000 contract per week of the Swedish takes place until 2028, but Isak seems determined to a new challenge far from St James’ Park.

In the middle of speculation, Isak was excluded from the team of 30 men from Newcastle for his tour in Asia, where they will face Arsenal and Spurs on each side of a confrontation with a K-League XI.

Newcastle’s message is that Isak was faced with a minor injury problem, which was supported by the skipper Guimaraes in a new interview.

“For what we know, Isak has been injured and has not been training for five days,” said the Brazilian Sky Sports News.

“He stayed there to improve. He has a small injury. Of course, he is a high -level player, we know that everything goes around it but what we know is that he stays there to have physical.”

Meanwhile, Dan Burn also addressed the situation involving the Talisman of Newcastle, adding: “I think that if we lost a player, it has been upset the united group that has been together for two, three years. Any player who leaves it does not help, from our point of view, we just need to control what we can control. At the moment, we are looking forward to recovering.”

Manager Eddie Howe has already confirmed that he had sent Isak to their friend’s house with Celtic “due to speculation”, but said that he was “confident” that he would remain a Newcastle player because he stressed that the club was “desperate” to keep it.

At the same time, Howe admitted that he “respects” how short the career is short and recognized that there would be “noise” around the attacker.

That being said, Fabrizio Romano Newcastle’s statements are reassessing the situation and began to seek a potential replacement for Isak – with striker RB Leipzig Benjamin Sesko a higher target.

Isak joined the Magpies for a club record 63 million pounds sterling in 2022 and scored 62 goals, helping the club at a long -awaited victory of the Carabao Cup last season.