LIVERPOOL BREAK TRANSFER RECORD AS ALEXANDER ISAK COMPLETES SECOND MEDICAL IN £120M SHOCK MOVE!
Take a look at all of Hugo Ekitike's goals and assists from the 2024/25 season as Liverpool and Newcastle step up interest in signing the striker from Eintracht Frankfurt
On the face of it, that was a perfectly reasonable short-term target. Prior to his final season at Reims, Ekitike had not even scored a goal in France's top tier. He had spent the second half of the previous campaign on loan at Danish club Vejle Boldklub.
He returned to Reims as the fourth-choice forward but soon forced Oscar to reassess. Soon after that, the two strikers whose level he had been encouraged to hit were no longer in his sights. "Within months, he wanted to reach the same level as Mbappe."