{"id":270500,"date":"2025-07-17T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270500\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:00:11","slug":"hugo-ekitikes-boss-at-reims-sends-warning-to-arne-slot-as-liverpool-move-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270500\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike’s boss at Reims sends warning to Arne Slot as Liverpool move looms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Liverpool are closing in on a new striker as their move for Eintracht Frankfurt\u2019s Hugo Ekitike now looms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

TBR Football<\/strong> understands Liverpool have already agreed personal terms with Ekitike<\/a> \u2013 and have now made a \u00a370million bid for the Frenchman.<\/p>\n

Arsenal registered their interest in Ekitike<\/a>, as did Chelsea and Newcastle, but Liverpool<\/a> are now pushing to complete a deal themselves.<\/p>\n

Oscar Garcia, who coached Ekitike at Stade Reims, has shared what his new club can expect from him, and he also issued some guidance with regards to his coaching.<\/p>\n

\"LiverpoolPhoto by Simon Stacpoole\/Offside\/Offside via Getty ImagesOscar Garcia says Hugo Ekitike will need individual coaching <\/p>\n

Garcia, speaking to Sky Sports<\/a>, explained how Ekitike has always been a confident and ambitious player.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe always was a talented player but some coaches did not like him because of his profile and sometimes because of his character,\u201d said Garcia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were thinking he was a little bit arrogant. He always wanted to be compared with the best ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ekitike was challenged to reach the levels of two unnamed strikers in the French top flight when he was at Reims, but it wasn\u2019t long before he was aiming to reach Kylian Mbappe\u2019s levels.<\/p>\n

In terms of Ekitike\u2019s traits, Garcia said: \u201cHe is not a kind of a striker who will be always into the box waiting for a cross, he is very mobile and very difficult to mark.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can fit with teams that play more counter-attack but also with teams with more possession, because he has the skill for both styles.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou do not find many strikers like him at his age. He is tall, fast, mobile, very good one against one, holds the ball and scores goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Garcia said Ekitike will need tailored help in coaching to get him to the next level.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll players can improve,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe knows which aspects he can improve on but he also needs help to develop his potential to reach the level that all the people who know him believe he can reach. <\/p>\n

\u201cIndividual work with him will be fundamental for his development.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: The suitors ready to meet Liverpool\u2019s asking price for Darwin Nunez as Napoli drop out of talks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

A mix of Kylian Mbappe and Neymar<\/p>\n

Wesley Snijder, one of the best midfielders of his generation, sang Ekitike\u2019s praises earlier this year.<\/p>\n

After watching him score against Ajax in March, Sneijder said Ekitike was like a mix between Neymar and Mbappe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll tell you, I\u2019ve seen a lot of this boy,\u201d Snijder told Ziggo Sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, I may say something really crazy, but I\u2019ll say it anyway, I think he is a mix between Neymar and Mbappe. I sincerely mean that.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has that grace from Neymar but also the movements of Mbappe. Suddenly accelerating, that\u2019s something Mbappe also has.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is really a lot of potential in this boy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are closing in on a new striker as their move for Eintracht Frankfurt\u2019s Hugo Ekitike now looms.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,162,4884,5759,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-270500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-english-premier-league","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-hugo-ekitike","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114871063313417814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270500","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=270500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}