Ekitike

[Jammy89]

Frankfurt have said they'll accept the offer of ?90 million from Liverpool for Etikite when they make it.

?90 million. . . He'll have a lot of pressure on him from the off.

[Ragatino]

Frankfurt have said they'll accept the offer of ?90 million from Liverpool for Etikite when they make it.

?90 million. . . He'll have a lot of pressure on him from the off.

90million quid is crazy money for the lad. One good season in Germany. Sign of the times I guess.

Liverpool paid Benfica (those guys are amazing and growing players and selling them for outrageous money) €75m+€25m Euro of Nunez. The bindips had their pants pulled down.

Frankfurt know full well have money for a potential Isak signing so they'll be damn sure to be asking for the full release clause. Bindips are facing another €100m Euro - 86m quid.

If they do drop to 90m euro - 78m quid, it's still a big price tag.

They are struggling to find a buyer for Nunez. So he'll no doubt end up going out on loan somewhere after they take a massive hit on him.

So Hugo will be the one and only striker once again expected to score all the goals. He will provide assists for Salah but he's not getting any younger. No doubt Salah will be among the top scorers in the league again this season but the reason they want Isak is because that squad is dangerously old. VVD & Salah still pose questions. VVD is a year older. We're concerned about Schar and Burn. Konte is out of contract and looks like he's been tapped by Real or Barcelona to join them on a free next summer.

VVD replacement is gonna be another 80m quid player in this market.

Back to the striker. Ekitike has the credentials to make it work however, it's a big ask.

As of today, Sunday 20th July. 0443 BST. There is still no bid from Liverpool.

They are clearly still trying to use the media to manipulate Isak into entertaining their interest.

[Ragatino]

The Athletic report that their information is that Eintracht Frankfurt are expecting this to be a new club record, surpassing the €95m (?82.3m) deal when Randal Kolo Muani left for PSG in 2023.

I think this points to just how desperate Liverpool are to land a first choice striker with less than four weeks until they kick off in the Premier League. Ekitike had a very decent season scoring 15 league goals in the Bundesliga in 2024/25. However, apart from that, after scoring 10 Ligue 1 goals for Reims in 20211/22, Hugo Ekitike only scored another seven league goals across the next two seasons (2022/23 and 2023/24) for PSG and Eintracht Frankfurt.

To pay ?85m+ for a striker who has had one good season in a league that is significantly weaker than the Premier League, is crazy money, even considering how the market is these days.

As I say, I thought that reported Newcastle United ?69.5m bid for Hugo Ekitike was really pushing it.

Actually, this new report from The Athletic also states that this bid from Newcastle earlier in the week was actually for a total of €75m (?65m) and not €80m (?69.5m), which does sound more realistic.

It sounds like Eintracht Frankfurt have played a blinder here and if they end up with ?85m from Liverpool, ?20m more than Newcastle United’s offer, then it looks incredible money for a 23 year old striker who has had that one very decent season, albeit in a weaker league than the English top tier.

I know Yoane Wissa is five years older than Hugo Ekitike and is at an age beyond that of the normal Newcastle United profile.

However, I find it bizarre that after reports that Newcastle were switching their attention to the Brentford striker, that then many United fans were so dismissive of Wissa. Playing for an unfashionable club he scored 19 Premier League goals last season, the most of any striker who doesn’t take penalties. If United brought him in to play alongside Alexander Isak and if necessary play as a lone striker at times, I think that would give NUFC very strong looking options in attack.

https://www.themag.co.uk/2025/07/it-has-now-become-clear-why-newcastle-united-ended-pursuit-of-hugo-ekitike/

[Ragatino]

So it looks like the bindips are going to trigger the release clause.

Frankfurt are expecting the transfer to be higher than the 95m Euro they made form Randal Kolo Muani when he left for PSG.

Whilst it's not great that we still need another striker. The longer it goes on and the more this deal comes to light it's clear that Liverpool's little scheme to try and destabilise Isak backfired and now they have to follow through with their massively over inflated transfer of an unproven Premier League player.

This could blow up in their face.

Wouldn't that be sweet!

[Zippity]

They're paying an awful lot of money for someone who cost ?14 million a year ago.

His numbers are good but are they ?90+ million good?

Time will tell.

[Ragatino]

They're paying an awful lot of money for someone who cost ?14 million a year ago.

His numbers are good but are they ?90+ million good?

Time will tell.

Exactly that Zip!

Bindip No.9 is a big shirt to fill. Nunez choked in the shirt.

As you said, time will tell!

[Sclox]

Wasn't so long ago Nunez like Hoijland were touted as the next big things....until they hit their confidence crisis.

They are still young and would be availsble at keen prices as back ups to Isak...and probably given their predicaments would be happy to be.

I wonder for a split second has EH looked at either one and thought.

I could fix this....

I wonder.

[Ragatino]

Wasn't so long ago Nunez like Hoijland were touted as the next big things....until they hit their confidence crisis.

They are still young and would be availsble at keen prices as back ups to Isak...and probably given their predicaments would be happy to be. I wonder for a split second has EH looked at either one and thought. I could fix this.... I wonder.

Hojlund's confidence is shattered. If he's available for around 30m quid I'd definitely like to see what Eddie could do with the lad.

He's been shocking, without doubt. However, Hojlund is 22 yrs old, he can be rebuilt and there is defo a player in there. Nunez is 26, that one is a hard pass.

The problem is giving money to the filth or the skip rat, bindippers.

[Sclox]

Hojlund's confidence is shattered. If he's available for around 30m quid I'd definitely like to see what Eddie could do with the lad.

He's been shocking, without doubt. However, Hojlund is 22 yrs old, he can be rebuilt and there is defo a player in there. Nunez is 26, that one is a hard pass.

The problem is giving money to the filth or the skip rat, bindippers.

Exactly, difficult giving a penny to either of these cnts, but as a boss cold, calm, slick business decision...

Imagine getting one for 25 and turning them back into a 70mil striker in one season and kbowing you can...I have that much store that EH and the coaches could.

Think what that would do for a future signings decision process. Would certainly turn their heads, not just a club on the up but pros as coaches who can improve and not give up on you if you hit a dry patch.

[Ragatino]

Exactly, difficult giving a penny to either of these cnts, but as a boss cold, calm, slick business decision...

Imagine getting one for 25 and turning them back into a 70mil striker in one season and kbowing you can...I have that much store that EH and the coaches could.

Think what that would do for a future signings decision process. Would certainly turn their heads, not just a club on the up but pros as coaches who can improve and not give up on you if you hit a dry patch.

I'd only be interested in Hojlund he's 22, young enough and still hungry, ambitious and really keen to prove himself.

Nunez has won the league and got that arrogance about him, plus he's 26. He's not worth the headache.

Totally agree though, to turn Hojlund into a proper worldie, see the kid fulfill his potential and score against the filth would be priceless haah

[Jammy89]

Not that Sky have an agenda or anything

They put up Isak and Etikite stats to show the great deal that LiVARpool were getting - leaving out one key stat, goals scored.

Couldn't make it up

[Zippity]

I've just seen that. Mental.

[Ragatino]

Not that Sky have an agenda or anything

They put up Isak and Etikite stats to show the great deal that LiVARpool were getting - leaving out one key stat, goals scored.

Couldn't make it up

Not to mention the Bundesliga is not the Premier League. When broadcasters introduce a proper PHD backed, 25 yr studied, Quantum computed inter-league coefficient for players stats I'll start to pay attention.

I mean how hard is it to rank every league by difficulty and provide a proper statistical comparison?

Surely in the age of 'Big Data' that is child's play.

[Ragatino]

Berger adds that Ekitike will earn between ?250,000-a-week and ?267,000-a-week at Liverpool, as he gets set to undergo a medical on Merseyside.

HAHAHAHA

So let's get this straight... Liverpool power played Newcastle United?

We offered 69m quid - 79.5m Euro
Liverpool pay 78m quid - 90m Euro + 5m quid in achievable add-ons totalling - 82m quid - 95m Euro.

Tell me how being aggressive in the transfer window smoked out the bindippers, forced them to pay 13m quid more than our offer (Frankfurt were gonna do the deal if we structured the 69m), for no reason & they're gonna pay him a million quid a month.

& you're tell me that another major rival is out of contention for Isak... The longer this goes on the more fake they look.

HOHOHO serious, big shot team the Champions. So impressive and fearful. Such a flex.

It will be very funny should Ekitike do a Nunez. Very funny.

https://www.geordiebootboys.com/transfers/newcastle-united-never-had-a-chance-with-liverpool-set-to-pay-hugo-ekitike-eye-watering-wages/

[Ragatino]

Feeling we dodged a bullet with this one.