{"id":276575,"date":"2025-07-20T05:17:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276575\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T05:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:17:19","slug":"eintracht-frankfurt-transfer-motto-speaks-volumes-as-liverpool-close-in-on-hugo-ekitike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276575\/","title":{"rendered":"Eintracht Frankfurt transfer motto speaks volumes as Liverpool close in on Hugo Ekitike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hugo Ekitike is set to become the latest striker to leave Eintracht Frankfurt in a big-money deal as talks with Liverpool continue\"HugoHugo Ekitike of Eintracht Frankfurt(Image: Alex Grimm\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Hugo Ekitike is set to become the latest striker to leave Eintracht Frankfurt in a big-money move. Liverpool have already agreed personal terms with the Frenchman and are in talks with the Bundesliga club to bring him to Anfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old, who only joined Eintracht permanently from Paris Saint-Germain in a \u20ac16.5m deal after a successful loan in April 2024, enjoyed a stunning campaign with the German outfit last time out.<\/p>\n

Making 48 appearances, he returned 22 goals and 12 assists to help the club qualify for the Champions League<\/a> as they finished an impressive third in the Bundesliga. And that came despite selling Ekitike\u2019s strike-partner in January.<\/p>\n

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Omar Marmoush was enjoying an even more impressive season for the club with 20 goals and 14 assists from just 26 appearances before Man City swooped in January, landing the Egyptian in a \u00a359m deal.<\/p>\n

Ekitke is now set to follow in his footsteps to the Premier League<\/a>, with Eintracht reportedly holding out for close to \u00a386m for the striker.<\/p>\n

They will not stand in his way of leaving for Liverpool <\/a>though, with Eintracht sporting director Markus Krosche previously admitting they will to sell their star players if they outgrow the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s one of the most interesting strikers on the European market,\u201d he said of the striker when speaking to Sport1 in May. \u201cHugo has to decide that. I’m glad we have him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he decides otherwise, that’s our motto: If a player develops faster than us, we let him go.”<\/p>\n

That has certainly proven to be the case in recent years with Ekitike and Marmoush only the latest names to be sold for mass profit to top European clubs.<\/p>\n

Willian Pacho joined Paris Saint-Germain from the club last year in a \u20ac45m deal, while the Parisians had parted with \u20ac90m to land Randal Kolo Muani from Eintracht the year before. That same summer, Jesper Lindstrom left for Napoli in a \u20ac30m switch.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in 2021, Andre Silva left for RB Leipzig in a \u20ac23m swoop. And in the summer of 2019, strike-partners Luka Jovic and Sebastien Haller left for Real Madrid and West Ham United respectively in \u20ac60m and \u20ac50m deals.<\/p>\n

Throw in the \u20ac75m they received for Marmoush and the \u20ac100m they hope to bank for Ekitike and that’s roughly \u20ac475m pocketed for by selling some of their biggest stars over the past six years.<\/p>\n

Still managing to win the Europa League<\/a> and qualify for the Champions League again during their period, Eintracht’s transfer model continues to be a roaring success.<\/p>\n

And while admittedly, their departing strikers don\u2019t always flourish in their new surroundings, the Bundesliga have seemingly had no issues continuing to unearth their next prolific star.<\/p>\n

Eintracht will not stand in Ekitike\u2019s way as talks with Liverpool continue, and will already be plotting to spend such an outlay on his successor.<\/p>\n

With the Frenchman poised to potentially become the Bundesliga outfit\u2019s record sale yet, the Reds can only hope he proves to be worth every penny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike is set to become the latest striker to leave Eintracht Frankfurt in a big-money deal as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,763,1596,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-276575","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-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-fc","13":"tag-liverpool-fc-transfer-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114883870324237007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276575","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=276575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}