Eintracht Frankfurt have given Hugo Ekitike the \u2018green light\u2019 to travel to Liverpool for a medical \u2018today\u2019, according to reports.<\/p>\n
The Reds have made their next priority a new centre-forward in the summer transfer market after\u00a0bringing in Florian Wirtz, Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong\u00a0so far this summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak has been their top target over the summer but the Magpies are staying strong on their stance that the Sweden international is not for sale.<\/p>\n And that has seen\u00a0Liverpool<\/a>\u00a0ramp up their efforts to sign Frankfurt striker Ekitike with transfer expert Fabrizio Romano giving his \u2018here we go\u2019 to the deal on Sunday.<\/p>\n Romano said on social media<\/a>: \u2018BREAKING: Hugo Ekitike to Liverpool, here we go! Deal in place for fee over \u20ac90m for the French striker to join from Eintracht Frankfurt, potentially reaching \u20ac95m. Six year deal for Ekitike, valid until June 2031; he only wanted Liverpool move. New striker for Slot.\u2019<\/p>\n And now former CBS Sports journalist Ben Jacobs has revealed that Ekitike will be given \u2018permission to travel\u2019 imminently after the two clubs struck an \u2018agreement in principle\u2019 that will see\u00a0\u00a369m of the fee \u2018guaranteed\u2019.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Every Premier League club\u2019s 2025 pre-season friendly fixtures and results<\/a><\/p>\n Jacobs wrote on X<\/a>: \u2018Exclusive: Agreement in principle between Liverpool and Frankfurt for Hugo Ekitike. \u00a369m pounds guaranteed and \u00a310m in add ons is the final fee, with bonuses paid with both team and player success. Deal in Euros is \u20ac91m. Ekitike permission to travel imminent.\u2019<\/p>\n Before Sky Germany reporter Florian Plettenberg later revealed that Ekitike has been \u2018given the green light to travel to Liverpool today for his medical\u2019.<\/p>\n Plettenberg also took to X to claim<\/a>: \u2018Hugo #Ekitike has been given the green light to travel to Liverpool today for his medical. Eintracht are receiving \u20ac90 million guaranteed plus \u20ac5 million in potential add-ons. Contract until 2031. #LFC A full agreement between the clubs was reached yesterday, as exclusively revealed. @SkySportDE\u2019<\/p>\n The Athletic\u2018s David Ornstein has also revealed that there are expected to be more additions to Arne Slot\u2019s side this summer after Ekitike completes his move.<\/p>\n MORE ON LIVERPOOL FROM F365\u2026 Ornstein wrote:\u00a0\u2018The Anfield club have been prioritising a striker this summer and, while sensitivities remain understandably high following the tragic death of Diogo Jota earlier this month, there is an awareness they need to make further additions after bringing in Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez.<\/p>\n \u2018There may also be departures in Liverpool\u2019s forward line, with the club open to offers on Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz having informed them of his desire to leave amid interest from Bayern Munich and Barcelona.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eintracht Frankfurt have given Hugo Ekitike the \u2018green light\u2019 to travel to Liverpool for a medical \u2018today\u2019, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,818,1615,1613,44,1614,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-10879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-home-page","11":"tag-hugo-ekitike","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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