The Premier League champions and the Carabao Cup winners will reportedly hold new talks in the coming days, as the striker makes his stance clear

N ewcastle United striker Alexander Isak has been told he must now return to the club's training ground. Isak, 25, is attempting to force through a move to Liverpool and did not travel with the Magpies on their pre-season tour in South Korea.

The Seoul sun is absolutely relentless as it blazes down on Eddie Howe and his Newcastle United players at the club's training HQ. When it's 40 degrees, you can at least find the nearest building in Seoul with air conditioning to cool down. But the intensity of the Alexander Isak cauldron, that is boiling ever hotter and hotter, seems inescapable.