{"id":160931,"date":"2025-09-26T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160931\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:22:09","slug":"hugo-ekitike-hit-with-fine-as-rio-ngumoha-decision-delayed-latest-liverpool-fc-news-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160931\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike hit with fine as Rio Ngumoha decision delayed – Latest Liverpool FC News – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rio Ngumoha<\/a> has signed a new deal but there has been a delay in a compensation agreement, while Hugo Ekitike<\/a> is to be hit with a big fine for his red card. <\/p>\n

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Rio Ngumoha compensation date delayed<\/p>\n

Ngumoha has now been at Liverpool a year and has just signed his first professional contract, a deal that runs until 2028.<\/p>\n

However, despite being at the club for 12 months, Liverpool and Chelsea<\/a> have still not agreed a compensation fee.<\/p>\n

His transfer didn\u2019t cost Liverpool, but they will have to pay Chelsea<\/a> a sum due to their role in developing the 17-year-old.<\/p>\n

The amount will be decided by the Professional Football Compensation Committee, and the Times<\/a>\u2018 Paul Joyce reports that the decision will not be made \u201cuntil November or even December.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE,<\/p>\n

Originally, it had been hoped that a tribunal could come to an agreement by the end of September. <\/p>\n

In terms of what kind of fee we can expect, it could reach a sum previously unprecedented for such a young player. <\/p>\n

A rough yardstick would be Harvey Elliott<\/a>\u2018s move from Fulham<\/a> to Liverpool, which ended up costing the Reds \u00a32.8 million thanks to his achievements.<\/p>\n

Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Liverpool FC News<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ekitike \u201cis likely to be docked two weeks\u2019 wages,\u201d for his silly second yellow card against Southampton<\/a>, according to the Mail<\/a>\u2018s Dominic King \u2013 that equates to about \u00a3400,000<\/p>\n

\u2022 Speaking on TNT Sports<\/a>, Arne Slot<\/a> has confirmed<\/a> that the remaining two years on Diogo Jota<\/a>\u2018s contract is being paid to his family \u2013 that figure will be at least \u00a310m<\/p>\n

\u2022 The 18-year-old academy winger, Kieran Morrison, who was on the bench against Southampton<\/a>, has continued<\/a> training with the first team since their Carabao Cup<\/a> win<\/p>\n

\u2022 Liverpool issued<\/a> 1,114 lifetime bans to ticket touts and fraudsters in last season\u2019s crackdown \u2013 a definite step in the right direction<\/p>\n

More from This Is Anfield<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The obvious objective of entering the Carabao Cup<\/a> is to win it, but Slot\u2019s squad could benefit in other ways if they use the competition cleverly:<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe dwindling importance of domestic cup competitions is a tiresome topic that comes around every year without any semblance of a solution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Champions League<\/a> dwarfs the Carabao Cup<\/a> in terms of prize money, the European competition earning the Reds about 18 times more for each league phase win than a Carabao Cup<\/a> final triumph at Wembley.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the financial incentive at practically zero for big clubs, the motivation for winning is simply for the glory of the game. This is what has driven Liverpool to three finals in their last four years.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ: How the Carabao Cup can help Liverpool achieve this season\u2019s biggest ambitions
<\/a><\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the football world today<\/p>\n

\"LONDON,<\/p>\n

\u2022 Liverpool owners FSG have held discussions and \u201ccompleted due diligence\u201d on potential new club Getafe, whom they are interested in buying \u2013 no decision has yet been made, though (Mail<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u2022 William Saliba has agreed to sign a new five-year deal at Arsenal<\/a> amid interest from Real Madrid<\/a> (BBC Sport<\/a>) \u2013 that is one less defender on the market for Los Blancos\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2022 Blackburn\u2018s Championship match against Ipswich<\/a> will be replayed in full after it was abandoned on Saturday due to a waterlogged pitch \u2013 the hosts were 1-0 up and a man up in the 79th minute at Ewood Park!<\/p>\n

Liverpool FC: On this day<\/p>\n

September 25, 2007, saw Fernando Torres bag his first Liverpool hat-trick on just his sixth start for the Reds.<\/p>\n

Rafa Benitez\u2019s team emerged bruised and battered, due to several late challenges at the Madejski Stadium, but ultimately their quality won out in the League Cup<\/a> third round. <\/p>\n

Yossi Benayoun\u2019s brilliant strike opened the scoring, while Torres stole the headlines for his three goals, the first of three hat-tricks in his first year alone at the club \u2013 the first Liverpool player to manage the feat since 1896.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rio Ngumoha has signed a new deal but there has been a delay in a compensation agreement, while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,20608,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-160931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-round-up","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}