{"id":309131,"date":"2025-08-01T11:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309131\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:39:13","slug":"transfer-news-live-latest-on-alexander-isak-tyler-dibling-joao-palhinha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309131\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news LIVE: Latest on Alexander Isak, Tyler Dibling, Joao Palhinha"},"content":{"rendered":"

How would Liverpool fit Ekitike and Isak in the same team?published at 12:00 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

12:00 BST<\/p>\n

Alex Keble<\/strong>
Football tactics writer<\/p>\n

\"PossibleImage source, BBC Sport<\/p>\n

Liverpool’s summer window has already been the most curious we have ever seen from Premier League champions.<\/p>\n

Signing Bundesliga stars en masse and swapping out both full-backs implies a major tactical shift that heralds the dawn of a new one.<\/p>\n

But bringing in Newcastle United<\/a>‘s Alexander Isak would push Liverpool’s transfer business into unprecedented territory.<\/p>\n

What exactly is Arne Slot thinking?<\/p>\n

The simplest thing to do is fully convert Hugo Ekitike into a Luis Diaz replacement, following the Colombia forward’s move to Bayern Munich<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ekitike has played just nine games – two starts and 324 minutes in total – as a left-winger, although he has often tended to drift out to that side, most notably throughout 2023-24.<\/p>\n

\"Hugo<\/p>\n

More importantly, the way Slot has used Cody Gapko and Luis Diaz – as one-on-one dribblers, using their acceleration to cut inside full-backs – corresponds with Ekitike’s best qualities.<\/p>\n

In the Bundesliga last season, Ekitike came fifth for attempted dribbles (126) and for shot-ending carries (44). He also provided eight assists and ranked fifth for ‘attacking sequence’ involvements.<\/p>\n

\"Attacking<\/p>\n

He hasn’t done it much before, but Ekitike has the makings of a Slot left-winger.<\/p>\n

Read Alex’s full piece here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How would Liverpool fit Ekitike and Isak in the same team?published at 12:00 British Summer Time 12:00 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-309131","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114953320189289889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309131","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=309131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}