Thierry Henry allegedly said Frankfurt demonstrator Hugo Ekitike “performs not implement the requireds horribly well” as Liverpool comfortable in on their target.
Having been offered a company no to Alexandar Isak’s access, Liverpool have instead targeted Ekitike and a provision for the 23-year-archaic is said to be comfortable to verdict.
Yet the demonstrator’s aptitudes have relatively been enquired yourself by Medley legend Henry that said his performance can go from “uncanny” to not dabbling well in the gap of a minutes.
That is according to Micah Richards, that was speaking on the Rest is Football podcast.
“In specification of Ekitike, I’ve chatted to Thierry about him a habitation,” Richards said. “He says he’s not a disappointing player, yet one minutes he aesthetics uncanny and the next off minutes he performs not implement the requireds horribly well.
“He said if he derives it right and boosts then his ceiling could be horribly, horribly high.”
Henry was suspected to be natural to Ekitike’s fortitude to flee PSG having been assigned instructor of the France U21s. Henry said he spoke to the player that was fighting for minutes and told him “you diagnose what you have to implement” to render earn filch advantage of of right into his group.
Henry’s most present annotations are not the initially time a impressive player owns offered an unflattering reasoning of the demonstrator as Ekitike’s former PSG group-pal Lionel Messi allegedly dubbed him “the iron pole” due to his wiry frame. The pair messed around with each other for purely one period in 2022-23.
No matter of Henry’s priority, Liverpool are pressuring on with the transmit that could rate £70m.
The player owns a £86.5m takeoff clause yet Liverpool are sifting to negotiate that down having already owned an opening bid spurned.
Paradises Germany press correspondent Florian Plettenberg opined that Ekitike singular wants to indication up with Liverpool after previously been affixed with Newcastle.
Plettenberg wrote on X: ‘Liverpool have verbally substantiated to Eintracht that they are unanimously ensconced to bid for Hugo #Ekitike and have rendered it understandable to Frankfurt that they are intended to compensation more than Newcastle, as reported yesterday.
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‘As of this morning, there owns still been no written bargain from #LFC. However, there are brand-newfangled talks swiping gap today. Newcastle could not advance in arrangements with Eintracht yesterday. Eintracht feeling that Ekitike would possibly favor to indication up with Liverpool.’
French journalist Fabrice Hawkins on the other hand said individual specification have already been agreed in between the player and the club with a 6-year provision slumped ahead.
Hawkins wrote on X: ‘EXCLUSIVE: Hugo Ekitike and Liverpool received to an covenant over 6 year covenant. The player singular wants Liverpool. In the last 24h he owns spurned Manchester Joined. Newcastle have already vacated talks. Negociation ongoing in between Frankfurt and Liverpool.’
Through Newcastle out the running, Eddie Howe’s side have swapped their focus to Brentford’s Yoane Wissa.
The ahead, that racked up 19 league purposes last year, owns purely one year vacated on his provision although Brentford have the recourse of elongating that a further period.
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