Liverpool star Hugo Ekitike has responded to the Premier League giants\u2019 signing of Alexander Isak from Newcastle United in a British record transfer.<\/p>\n
Ekitike <\/a>opted for Liverpool over Newcastle in the summer and joined the Reds from Eintracht Frankfurt in a deal worth around \u00a380m.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old has had a dream start at Liverpool<\/a>, grabbing three goals and an assist in his first four competitive appearances for Arne Slot\u2019s side.<\/p>\n Despite this, Ekitike may soon be out of the team as he faces a fight with Isak over minutes following the world-class striker\u2019s \u00a3125m move to Anfield on deadline day.<\/p>\n The arrival of Isak means Liverpool are spoiled for choice in attacking areas, with Ekitike insisting that he wants to ensure that Slot has a \u201cproblem\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s fun. When you play for the best teams, you expect to be competing with the best players,\u201d Ekitike said when asked about Isak\u2019s move to Anfield.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Newcastle \u2018mugged Liverpool blind\u2019 and Alexander Isak \u2018needs to fire his agent\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIsak is a player I\u2019ve watched too, so seeing him arrive is a pleasure.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be tough competition, but I\u2019m going to focus on performing well so that it\u2019s a problem for the manager.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: Obviously my life has changed.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a big move and I\u2019m watched a thousand times more, but I\u2019m taking it positively, it\u2019s really good. It\u2019s the position I wanted to be in.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you have this kind of standard, you have to show that you belong here and you have to continue to perform.<\/p>\n \u201cBut it\u2019s a position that I like and that I want to keep.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWill Alexander Isak impact the development of Hugo Ekitike? Yes, but great players adapt all the time. You have to renew yourself. You have to almost develop a toolbox,\u201d Malouda said.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s always your favourite position, but in modern football, you also have the defensive part of the game where you need to be involved.<\/p>\n \u201cThat doesn\u2019t stop you from being at your best level. Especially with young players, that\u2019s what\u2019s difficult to get, you need to give to the team first.<\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter the position. Then, with the relationship you create with the players around you, you will get the chances to score back because he\u2019s a natural goal scorer.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a real threat, and he has this experience at PSG with a lot of stars, so he knows how to navigate in a dressing room full of stars. But his main thing is he wants to be on the pitch, he wants to improve his stats, deliver, and answer to the expectations around him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool star Hugo Ekitike has responded to the Premier League giants\u2019 signing of Alexander Isak from Newcastle United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[15865,49,48,1613,15867,1417,44,574,561,82,4390],"class_list":{"0":"post-128543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-hugo-ekitike","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-soccer","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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