Wolves have rejected a £50m bid from Newcastle for Jorgen Strand Larsen.
Wolves’ place is that he’s not on the market on this window. They consider he’s too essential and the dearth of time left within the window isn’t sufficient to discover a Premier League-ready alternative.
Wolves exercised their possibility to purchase Strand Larsen on July 1 from Celta Vigo for £23m, after the 25-year-old Norway worldwide spent final season at Molineux on mortgage.
He scored 14 Premier League objectives in 35 appearances in 2024/25 and has began each Wolves video games to this point this season.
Newcastle are focusing on Strand Larsen because the alternative for Callum Wilson.
Yoane Wissa has been one other participant they see probably coming in for Wilson, nonetheless Brentford rejected a £40m bid for the striker final week.
Strand Larsen has began each of Wolves’ league video games to this point this time period.
‘Pereira has stopped wanting guaranteeing Strand Larsen stays’
Strand Larsen scored 14 Premier League objectives in 2024/25
Sky Sports activities’ Adam Bate at Wolves’ coaching floor:
Vitor Pereira has made it clear how essential Jorgen Strand Larsen is to Wolves, however stopped wanting guaranteeing that the Norwegian striker would stay on the membership this summer time amid reviews of curiosity from Newcastle.
“He’s a very important player for us. I never talk with him about it. He’s our player. When I watch him on the training, he’s committed with everybody, committed with the team. He’s a fighter. He likes to win. He’s preparing himself to play tomorrow.”
Requested if Wolves may afford to lose a key participant between now and the top of the switch window, Pereira added: “I don’t know. The market is the market. If the window is open, the players can come and the players can leave. I believe this is possible.”
Howe: Newcastle won’t be left with out a striker this season
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Newcastle head coach Eddie Howe says he’s nonetheless hopeful of seeing Alexander Isak line up in a Newcastle shirt once more however says the state of affairs remains to be removed from excellent.
Eddie Howe is assured that Newcastle won’t depart him with out a recognised striker because the Alexander Isak state of affairs rumbles on.
Isak was the topic of a £110m bid from Liverpool and has not featured for Howe’s first-team in a match because the Magpies gamers returned from pre-season.
Howe was requested if there’s a state of affairs the place Isak is offered and Newcastle don’t carry a alternative in.
“I don’t think the club will allow that situation to happen,” he stated.
“We certainly can’t go through the season with no recognised striker at the football club – and that’s no disrespect to Will Osula.
“I believe he is doing rather well and he is progressing rather well, however he is acquired restricted expertise within the Premier League, though I am actually blissful together with his profession development.
“But Alex at the moment would be the only striker we have with Premier League history of goals and appearances and starts, so we can’t leave ourselves in that position.”
‘Newcastle are spinning plates as deadline approaches’
Sky Sports activities Information reporter Keith Downie:
“For Newcastle, it feels very much at the moment like spinning plates. We don’t yet know what is going to happen with Isak whether he will remain a Newcastle United player or not but they’re ensuring that they’re doing everything they can to get in replacements should he move to Liverpool.
“It will likely be fascinating to see whether or not Newcastle go in with an improved bid for Strand Larsen – clearly Howe searching for placing reinforcements.
“They don’t want to overspend though. I spoke to him just a couple of days ago in the build-up to this game. He said they don’t want to overspend but they know they need strikers in because they’re playing not just in the Premier League this season but they’ve got a Champions League campaign to contend with as well.”
Sky Sports activities to indicate 215 stay Premier League video games this season
215 stay Premier League matches up from 128 this season on Sky Sports activities
This season, Sky Sports activities’ Premier League protection will improve from 128 matches to at the least 215 video games solely stay.
And 80 per cent of all televised Premier League video games this season will probably be on Sky Sports activities.
