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The humble son of Eritrean refugees who could smash the British transfer record: Newcastle's wantaway striker Alexander Isak learned to play on a pitch made from gravel but could now seal Liverpool switch in mega £300,000-a-week deal

The humble son of Eritrean refugees who could smash the British transfer record: Newcastle's wantaway striker Alexander Isak learned to play on a pitch made from gravel but could now seal Liverpool switch in mega £300,000-a-week deal

Isak grew up in the suburb of Bagartorp, just outside the Swedish capital of Stockholm, after his parents fled Eritrea at the end of the 1980s.

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