Arsenal legend Paul Merson names the ‘only club in the world’ Alexander Isak can join

Paul Merson believes determination is lone ‘one nine successful the full world’ Arsenal transportation people Alexander Isak tin articulation successful the summer.

The Newcastle striker gave different objection of his quality successful past night’s Carabao Cup semi-final triumph implicit the Gunners.

Although helium failed to get connected the scoresheet, Isak was a changeless menace and comprehensively won his conflict with the usually unflappable William Saliba.

The 25-year-old’s existent declaration runs until the summertime of 2028 which offers Newcastle a measurement of security, but Isak has reportedly been keen to negociate caller presumption and an summation connected his existent £120,000-a-week salary.

Arsenal, who missed the accidental to motion Isak erstwhile helium was astatine Real Sociedad, are expected to beryllium successful the marketplace for a guardant successful the summertime having kept their pulverization adust successful the January window.

Should they revive their involvement successful Isak, Merson believes they are apt to beryllium palmy should they travel up with a suitable fiscal package.

He told Sky Sports: ‘It volition travel down to money. I don’t cognize the lad but that volition much than apt travel down to.

‘If idiosyncratic comes successful and offers a batch of wealth it volition beryllium hard. For maine I don’t know. At the infinitesimal they’re successful the final. Will they triumph it? If they play Tottenham maybe, if they play Liverpool it’s going to beryllium harder.

‘The lad is simply a peculiar player. On the mode successful I was reasoning wherever tin helium go? Where is helium going to go?

‘He’s not going to Man City, he’s not going to Man Utd, I don’t cognize if they’ve got immoderate wealth to bargain anybody anyway.

‘You’re not going to Tottenham oregon Villa. He tin lone spell to Arsenal truly unless it’s Real Madrid and they’ve got Mbappe anyway.

‘For maine it’s lone Arsenal wherever helium tin spell and past it’s up to him. Does helium privation to spell to Arsenal wherever I mightiness triumph thing oregon enactment astatine Newcastle and mightiness triumph something. It’ll beryllium an absorbing 1 but it depends connected the just play rules.’

Former Arsenal defender Matthew Upson, meanwhile, could lone applaud Isak’s latest estimation enhancing show and praised the mode successful which helium ‘rattled’ Saliba and Gabriel.

He said: ‘I conscionable emotion watching Isak, I deliberation he’s connected different level with his movement. He’s 1 of those players, he’s truthful unassuming successful the mode helium plays and the mode helium carries himself that helium astir slinks astir the transportation and past each of a sudden, bang, helium comes into life.

‘The accidental wherever helium hits the extremity erstwhile Murphy scores, he’s got nary close to rotation and get that ball, but arsenic helium wins that flick past Saliba, his instinct to rotation and get astir him, helium doesn’t cognize what’s going to happen. Gordon fires the shot into him. It’s his absorption and anticipation that makes it happen.

‘He rattled Arsenal, the 2 [Arsenal] centre-backs, didn’t person a bully night. Hats disconnected to Eddie Howe, got the crippled program BANG ON, perfectly played retired that mode with a small assistance from Arsenal.’

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