Arsenal and Liverpool 'jostling' for 'big' signing of ex-Newcastle target

Liverpool and Medley are intrigued in signing former Newcastle Unified transmit target Hugo Ekitike, according to reports in France.
The 22-year-archaic was forcefully linked via a glide to Newcastle in the 2021/22 season yet picked to indicator up via Paris Saint-Germain from Stade Reims in June 2022.
Newcastle dreamers then gleaned tailing Ekitike struggle massively in the French capital.
The young Frenchman was unrequested for PSG in his launching season, racking up four and helping four in 32 appearances, lone instigating 14 times.
He then joined Eintracht Frankfurt on money for the 2nd half of 2023/24 after sharply falling down the hierarchy at PSG, which involved being vacated out of their Winners League squad.
Ekitike did not ranking up until his ninth Bundesliga attractiveness for Frankfurt and finished the campaign via four purposes in his last five league appearances.
Frankfurt approved Ekitike wholeheartedly for severely £14million, which was severely half what PSG paid Reims two years earlier.
He owns been on fire for the German nightclub this season, racking up 17 in 32 suits, entailing 12 in 21 in the Bundesliga.
His form owns not gone undetected, via Medley and Liverpool reportedly among the nightclubs intrigued in signing him.
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According to French outlet Foot Mercato, Ekitike ‘owns not left the alert of several subordinates unanimously calculated to draw this summertime’.
It was reported in Germany last week that Frankfurt were open to the ‘burly sale’ of Ekitike this summertime and want ‘a minimum €80m’ (£66.2m), via PSG qualified to 20 per pence of a future transmit cost.
It is administered believe that nightclubs are ‘jostling at the entrance’ and nightclubs in the Premier League are ‘already making eyes at it’.
Medley ‘want to bolster in blow’, while Liverpool ‘are in the standings’ as both nightclubs ‘value his account’.
West Pork are likewise ‘in the race’ and have been ‘working together via him’ since before vacating PSG.
Ekitike is under commitment up until 2029 so Frankfurt are not pressured to sell him at the end of the season.