Newcastle v Liverpool: Alexander Isak transfer saga sets tone for ‘huge’ Premier League game

When Hugo Ekitike’s Liverpool won the race to take the race in front of Newcastle last month, after winning the race to St James.

Ekitike is a player that Howe knows well and can remove a concise discovery report without flashing: really good movement, smart, good in the air, points the goals of both feet. This was a decline. That’s why Newcastle wanted him.

“There is no doubt that I really love Hugo, and I have done it for a few years, How Wow said. “It was someone we’ve seen for a long time.”

This is a shortcoming.

In fact, Newcastle tried to sign Ekitike in three different situations for three and a half years.

Newcastle made his first move when Ekitike was not a home name in January 2022.

But 23 -year -old always had a tremendous potential.

At that time, the former Brighton manager, who worked with Ekitike at Reims, was better than Oscar Garcia.

“You can’t find many strikes like him at that age,” Garcia said to Sky Sports recently. “Tall, fast, moving, very good against someone, holding the ball and scoring goals. The opposing attack can fit more to teams that play more, but also to teams with more property because it has the ability for both styles.

“Hugo knows what aspects he can develop, but he also needs help to improve the potential to reach the level that all people who know him can reach.”

However, Newcastle was not alone in recognizing these qualities among Premier League clubs.

Liverpool had been watching Ekitike for a while after the striker rediscovered his spark in Eintracht Frankfurt after striker’s annoying spell in Paris St-Germain.

Newcastle may have made an opening proposal to Eintracht last month, but Ekitike made a move to Liverpool with a 69 million pounds of pounds.

He proved that there was an important moment in the transfer window. Multiple ways.