Romano: Liverpool maintaining contact in Ekitike transfer race<\/p>\n
In an update on his\u00a0eponymous YouTube channel<\/a> in the past few hours, Romano stated that Darwin Nunez is \u2018expected to leave\u2019 Anfield this summer (despite Stan Collymore\u2019s pleas to the contrary<\/a>), adding that FSG are already at work in trying to win the transfer race for the French centre-forward.<\/p>\n The journalist said: \u201cWith Darwin leaving, Ekitike is a concrete target for Liverpool. Liverpool already spoke to the agents of the player at the end of May. Liverpool are in regular contact with people close to Hugo Ekitike, so for sure Ekitike remains a player on Liverpool\u2019s list. <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI know there are rumours on several clubs for this kind of striker, but don\u2019t forget Liverpool, because they are still there.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n With Plettenberg reporting that Man United have now contacted Ekitike\u2019s agents<\/a> and registered \u2018concrete interest\u2019 in the player, it could be just as well that the Anfield hierarchy have already done likewise and haven\u2019t relented in their pursuit of the 22-year-old.<\/p>\n If Liverpool do sell Nunez this summer, it\u2019d be advisable to cover their bases at centre-forward by bringing in a replacement before the end of August. Diogo Jota\u2019s ability isn\u2019t in doubt, but we\u2019ve seen throughout his time with us that unfortunately he can\u2019t be trusted to stay fit for an entire season.<\/p>\n Although Lewis Steele argued<\/a> that the Eintracht Frankfurt man isn\u2019t in the same elite bracket as Alexander Isak, the Frenchman would almost certainly be more affordable than the Newcastle striker, which is especially pertinent in a transfer window in which the Reds have already committed to spending \u00a3116m on Florian Wirtz<\/a>.<\/p>\n The ongoing contact with Ekitike\u2019s agents would suggest that FSG are indeed preparing to sell our current number 9 and want to be in a position to pounce on the France under-21 star if there\u2019s a gap in the squad for a starting centre-forward.<\/p>\n Fingers crossed that Liverpool won\u2019t relent in their pursuit of the 22-year-old, particularly with two of our biggest rivals also in the hunt for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano has shared an update on Hugo Ekitike on Monday evening which is sure to intrigue Liverpool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-190742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114696805766323340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Liverpool](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ekitike-liverpool-contact.jpg\")
(Photo by Alex Grimm\/Getty Images)Ekitike seems a more attainable target than Alexander Isak<\/p>\n