{"id":16811,"date":"2025-07-17T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/16811\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:44:08","slug":"liverpool-to-bid-for-hugo-ekitike-after-he-indicates-preference-for-anfield-move-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/16811\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool to bid for Hugo Ekitike after he indicates preference for Anfield move | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Liverpool are poised to bid for Hugo Ekitike, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/eintrachtfrankfurt\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eintracht Frankfurt<\/a> striker favouring a move to the Premier League champions over Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Anfield officials have been given permission to discuss personal terms with the 23-year-old before finalising the fee and the structure of payments with his club. It is believed Ekitike and his representatives have agreed a six-year contract in principle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/jul\/16\/liverpool-make-approach-eintracht-frankfurt-forward-hugo-ekitike\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle and Liverpool<\/a> have held talks with Frankfurt this week over the France Under-21s international, with the former having a \u00a370m offer rejected and attempting to reach an agreement during further negotiations on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Liverpool\u2019s discussions with the German club have also intensified over the past 48 hours and the Anfield club have informed Eintracht that they will bid for Ekitike. Ekitike has a \u20ac100m (\u00a386.5m) release clause but whether Liverpool\u2019s opening offer will go that high remains to be seen. Talks between the clubs will continue on Thursday, with Ekitike having made it clear his preferred destination is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/liverpool\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The former Reims and Paris Saint-Germain forward scored 22 goals and made 12 assists in all competitions last season, his first in the Bundesliga, as Eintracht qualified for the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"#EmailSignup-skip-link-5\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1sbse14\">Sign up to Football Daily<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1xjndtj\">Kick off your evenings with the Guardian&#8217;s take on the world of football<\/p>\n<p>Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/terms\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n<p id=\"EmailSignup-skip-link-5\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"after newsletter promotion\" role=\"note\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Alexander Isak had topped Liverpool\u2019s list of targets for a No 9 and the champions were willing to pay a British record transfer fee to secure the Newcastle forward, but their understanding is the Sweden international is not for sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are poised to bid for Hugo Ekitike, with the Eintracht Frankfurt striker favouring a move to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-16811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}