Get Newcastle United vs. Liverpool predicted XI, team news and injury updates with Alexander Isak’s future in focus and concerns for the Reds around their right-back options.

Newcastle and Isak are at war, but with so little time remaining of the transfer window, an uncomfortable truce may be more likely than his dream move to Liverpool.

Newcastle then responded in kind, insisting they had never promised he could leave and that they could not foresee circumstances in which he could depart this summer. So, with Newcastle determined not to sell and Liverpool still keen to buy,