{"id":9266,"date":"2025-07-20T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9266\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:16:09","slug":"hugo-ekitike-transfer-news-liverpool-submit-69m-plus-add-ons-offer-for-eintracht-frankfurt-forward-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9266\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike transfer news: Liverpool submit \u00a369m plus add-ons offer for Eintracht Frankfurt forward | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have made an offer of \u20ac80m (\u00a369m) plus add-ons for Eintracht Frankfurt striker Hugo Ekitike.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports News understands the total package in this offer could rise to \u20ac90m, which is around \u00a378m, but talks continue over the structure of the add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after 48 hours of negotiations between the two parties, after Liverpool&#8217;s interest was made public earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Ekitike is open to a Premier League move and Liverpool would be his preferred destination, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11678\/13397022\/hugo-ekitike-to-newcastle-eintracht-frankfurt-turn-down-club-record-70m-bid-from-magpies-for-french-forward\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle had an offer rejected earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Frankfurt are yet to respond to this latest move. Talks continue but so far negotiations between the two have been positive and progressive.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old was an unused substitute during his side&#8217;s pre-season game against FSV Frankfurt on Saturday. After the game, Frankfurt boss, quoted by Sky Germany, said Ekitike&#8217;s potential departure is &#8220;a bitter loss&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ekitike scored 22 goals in 48 games across all competitions last season for Frankfurt as he helped them qualify for the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/skysports-football-liverpool_6967900.jpg\" alt=\"Ekitike, Isak\"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              Sky Sports&#8217; Sam Blitz explains why Liverpool may be getting the &#8216;next&#8217; Alexander Isak in Hugo Ekitike, with a number of striking similarities between the two strikers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11096\/13381114\/hugo-ekitike-to-chelsea-or-liverpool-eintracht-frankfurt-forward-ready-for-the-next-step-after-bundesliga-breakthrough\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ekitike ready for the next step after Bundesliga breakthrough<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports&#8217; Adam Bate:<\/p>\n<p>When Hugo Ekitike was still a teenager at Stade Reims, the coaching staff prepared a development plan for him. They analysed the performances of Kylian Mbappe and then picked out two more players that Ekitike might realistically aspire to replicate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These were players with similar profiles from teams that were better than our team, but not at the distance Paris Saint-Germain were from us,&#8221; Oscar Garcia, Reims&#8217; then head coach, told Sky Sports. &#8220;We challenged him to reach the level of the other two strikers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/skysports-frankfurt-bundesliga_6928531.jpg\" alt=\"Hugo Ekitike Frankfurt\"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              Take a look at all of Hugo Ekitike&#8217;s goals and assists from the 2024\/25 season as Liverpool and Newcastle step up interest in signing the striker from Eintracht Frankfurt<\/p>\n<p>On the face of it, that was a perfectly reasonable short-term target. Prior to his final season at Reims, Ekitike had not even scored a goal in France&#8217;s top tier. He had spent the second half of the previous campaign on loan at Danish club Vejle Boldklub.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to Reims as the fourth-choice forward but soon forced Oscar to reassess. Soon after that, the two strikers whose level he had been encouraged to hit were no longer in his sights. &#8220;Within months, he wanted to reach the same level as Mbappe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is a tale that offers a glimpse into the mindset of the Eintracht Frankfurt forward who has long been linked with a move to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He always was a talented player but some coaches did not like him because of his profile and sometimes because of his character,&#8221; concedes Oscar. &#8220;They were thinking he was a little bit arrogant. He always wanted to be compared with the best ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11661\/13019562\/sky-sports-to-show-215-premier-league-games-a-season-from-2025-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Sports to show 215 live PL games from next season<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/skysports-215-pl-games-on-sky_6921046.jpg\"   alt=\"Watch more Premier League matches on Sky Sports ever before with 215 games live of the 2025\/26 Premier League season. \"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Watch more Premier League matches on Sky Sports ever before with 215 games live of the 2025\/26 Premier League season<\/p>\n<p>From next season, Sky Sports&#8217; Premier League coverage will increase from 128 matches to at least 215 games exclusively live.<\/p>\n<p>And 80 per cent of all televised Premier League games next season are on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have made an offer of \u20ac80m (\u00a369m) plus add-ons for Eintracht Frankfurt striker Hugo Ekitike. 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