{"id":17928,"date":"2025-07-23T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ekitike-to-liverpool-slot-signs-star-key-reinforcement-for-the-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:02:00","slug":"ekitike-to-liverpool-slot-signs-star-key-reinforcement-for-the-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/ekitike-to-liverpool-slot-signs-star-key-reinforcement-for-the-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekitike to Liverpool: Slot signs star, key reinforcement for the attack"},"content":{"rendered":"Liverpool has finalized the incorporation of striker Hugo Ekitike, coming from Eintracht Frankfurt, as announced by the clubs this Wednesday.\n\nEkitike, 23 years old, becomes the most recent signing of the renewed Liverpool team led by Arne Slot this summer, joining Jeremie Frimpong, Florian Wirtz and Milos Kerkez.\n\nSources revealed that Liverpool agreed to a transfer of \u00a369 million, with an additional \u00a310 million in variables, which could raise the total cost to \u00a379 million for the France U21 national team striker.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Will Ekitike be a success or a failure at Liverpool?<\/li><li>How Ekitike arrived at Liverpool and what they can expect.<\/li><li>Diaz wants to leave Liverpool to go to Bayern.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nLiverpool reported that Ekitike will travel to Hong Kong this week to join the rest of the team on their pre-season tour of Asia.\n\nEkitike had also awakened the interest of Manchester United and Newcastle United this summer, after his outstanding season in the Bundesliga, where he scored 15 goals and provided eight assists in 33 matches.\n\nIn addition, he helped Frankfurt reach the quarter-finals of the Europa League, where they were eliminated by Tottenham Hotspur, who would later become champions.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s a great story for him and for Eintracht Frankfurt that he moves to one of the best teams in Europe, with the greatest ambitions and opportunities.<\/p><cite>Markus Kr\u00f6sche, Frankfurt&#8217;s sporting director<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nSources indicated that Frankfurt will have to cede 20% of the total transfer value to Paris Saint-Germain, due to a clause included in the player&#8217;s contract when he joined Frankfurt from the Ligue 1 club in February 2024.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool has finalized the incorporation of striker Hugo Ekitike, coming from Eintracht Frankfurt, as announced by the clubs this Wednesday. Ekitike, 23 years old, becomes the most recent signing of the renewed Liverpool team led by Arne Slot this summer, joining Jeremie Frimpong, Florian Wirtz and Milos Kerkez. Sources revealed that Liverpool agreed to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1387,4180,138,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-17928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-forward","9":"tag-hugo-ekitike","10":"tag-liverpool","11":"tag-transfer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}