Did I miss them actually signing any players?
Hugo Ekitike | Chelsea, Liverpool & Arsenal linked | and now United linked
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No one is paying 100m for him. No one.
Possibly too busy getting angry at a man yawning.
Frankfurt demanding 100m doesn't mean that Ekitike is worth that, it just means they are in no need to sell him. After selling Marmoush in the winter and qualifying for the CL their bank account looks pretty great.
He matured a lot during the season. I wouldn't say he is that rough. He handled the pressure well to replace Marmoush as the main man in Frankfurt's attack and kept them going. Most people expected Frankfurt to drop out of the CL race when they sold the best player in the league (yes, Marmoush was that this season), but they didn't. That is largely due to Ekitike dealing well with that situation.
Ekitike has far more experience and is much more versatile. And if you look at their numbers keep in mind: Delap has been Ipswich main striker all season. Frankfurt focused on Marmoush for half a season.
I agree. Watch one of those “last 50 shots” videos and it’s easy to see why he underperforms XG so much. He sidefoots practically every shot, almost never strikes the ball with authority.
IMO, he also might struggle with the physicality of the PL. I haven’t seen him enough to judge but in limited viewing he came across as all finesse, not much desire to bang up against CBs.
What do you think of this as a potential signing?
Liverpool can take their pick of the few available strikers and they're going to gamble on a Frankfurt signing?
They have a habit of making mediocre players look good.
I think 100m euros for him is a bit steep.
He reminds me more of Isak tbh. Has so much to his game, although he looks very raw, can see the potential there.
I have not seen one minute of football from Frankfurt so hard to comment on that. He looks a bit rigid imo, was surprised to read that he's only 1.90cm and e.g. Sesko is 1.95cm yet moves more fluently.
I have no idea whether he's the finished article or a work in progress, but any striker will score goals in our team imo. In that sense I can see why they thought even Nunez would work but his first touch and basically all-around game and even finishing just lets him down too often. Isak seems off limits now that Newcastle qualified for the CL, so we'll see who we end up with. Just nice to see that the board understands a striker is the next priority.
223,000,000,000 Pesos for him and Wirtz doesn't feel like clever Liverpool business.
I said this previously but I think he could have an Isak type of rise to prominence. They share a lot of the same qualities and style.
That's what Liverpool is banking on. They also thought Nunez was the next big one tbh.
He has a much higher ceiling than Gyokeres and Delap but also more of a gamble.
I guess I'm going to have to get used to the idea of Ekitike at Chelsea. I had hoped for a more experienced striker, but Ekitike's potential is hard to not get excited about.
100m seems wild. This summer Benjamin Sesko, Gyokeres, Jonathan David, Liam Delap and also Osimhen are available on the market.
£84m/€100m but yeah I agree it’s a lot for the risk of buying raw potential. It’s the PL tax, if the player was in the PL you’d be lucky to sell him abroad for anything over £20-30m.
It’s not a purchase I think we should be making personally.
So, that's a no then? Thought not.
I don't either. He's a player that will require time and patience to develop. I feel even if we negotiate it down to £70m (80m euro) it's a huge risk and an overpay.
But if he's the guy we've decided to pursue, I hope Frankfurt don't play hardball on the fee.
Only time I've seen him was against Spurs and he was a handful, quite similar to Isak.
Don't think Liverpool buy two 100m players so definitely think you go for him
With this one, I have the feeling he will flop. That's simply too much money to live up to.
Chelsea surely don’t buy him and Delap?
Be funny if they did - feels like a poor move on Delaps part if so
I still think it's more likely Chelsea would use Ekitike from the left behind Delap/Jackson. He's got the defensive work-rate and played there very effectively for Frankfurt before Marmoush left.
This has gone very quiet. Not like Chelsea to take an age.
Shame he’s so costly. Impresses me the most of the prospects.
Shame he’s so costly. Impresses me the most of the prospects.
I honestly don't understand how Chelsea can buy so many players and not breach PSR.
That's what happens when you're allowed to sell two hotels to a sister company. Nothing suspicious at all about that...
Don't know to be honest. If it, I've heard nothing about it.
It's been explained many times before. You're better off just searching 'Chelsea breach PSR how' in the search field to find your answer. The short explanation is amortisation and sales, and of course a bit of sketchy (but legal) financial engineering with the two hotels and the womens team.
Yeah, Isak and Firmino are quite similar to Ekitike imo.
Frankfurt have so far stuck to their 100mill euro valuation. It is within their rights to do so. It's basically a 'feck you, hands off' valuation, which is fair enough. They want to keep their player.
I will laugh so hard if Liverpool buy him. He is a faster less physical version of Nunez.
He's closer to Isak, with great close control and dribbling ability. A real threat in the box plus he does alot of off the ball work as well.
You can see why teams in CL would be interested in him. Sort of player who could unlock a stubborn low block defence.
Err. I thought Kante and Palhinha being similar players would be the wackiest take of the week.
My point was that neither can finish.
Seems like he fell out with the mods? Without going into it too much, he was complaining about the caf on twitter if you want to look. I don't know what the issue is but I always thought his reviews were really solid.
So did I. I like his videos apart from the self promotion bit in them, but get he's gotta try to make a success of his channel.
Just want clarity from mods so I don't fall foul and get a temp ban.
I would have posted his vids of Gyokeres and Osimhen in the relevant threads as I thought they were useful to the discussion but didn't because I was warned it wasn't allowed.