It’s no secret that Liverpool are searching for an improve within the centre-forward place, and so they may flip to the Bundesliga for his or her subsequent No. 9.
With Darwin Nunez more likely to depart this summer season and Diogo Jota‘s type not on the required stage since Christmas, Liverpool are out there for a ahead.
The seek for a striker may take them to Germany the place, this season, Hugo Ekitike and Benjamin Sesko, each of whom have been watched by Liverpool, have scored 22 targets and 21 targets for Eintracht Frankfurt and RB Leipzig respectively.
Neither would come low cost, although, with Ekitike’s price ticket reportedly set at over £85 million, whereas Sesko would value round £67 million.
We spoke to commentator and Bundesliga knowledgeable Kevin Hatchard to seek out out extra in regards to the pair and the way they examine to Liverpool’s present strikers.
Who’s Hugo Ekitike?
He’s a younger French striker who first caught the attention at Reims. He performed very well for them, was in double figures in targets for them and was seen as an actual rising star at that stage.
He was linked with Newcastle and finally he went to Paris Saint-Germain and that was too early. He ended up being sidelined there, not as a result of he performed notably badly however simply because he wasn’t prepared for it as a result of there was an excessive amount of attacking expertise there and he couldn’t break his means into the workforce.
Eintracht Frankfurt signed him on mortgage initially after which they had been capable of convey him in on a everlasting foundation for not that a lot cash within the grand scheme of issues (£13.9 million).
Earlier this season, he and Omar Marmoush actually clicked. That they had an awesome partnership in assault and even after Marmoush went to Man Metropolis, Ekitike actually tried to step up and attempt to rating targets and attempt to lead that assault.
That’s the place we at the moment are actually, a man who has been scoring targets in Europe and has additionally been scoring targets regularly within the Bundesliga.
What sort of participant is Ekitike?
I believe he’s fairly an uncommon participant.
He’s about 6’2″ however he’s not that nice within the air truly, however he’s obtained this actually slender body and rangy stride.
He carries the ball extremely properly, actually good dribbler, needs to run in behind. He’s fairly fast, he’s one of many quickest strikers within the Bundesliga truly. Though he’s 6’2″, he truly eats up the bottom with that type of lengthy, loping stride that he has.
And he’s very artistic; he’s obtained the flexibility to make targets in addition to rating them. He’s not a again to objective type of striker. He can try this stuff however I don’t suppose he’s notably eager to get the ball into his toes along with his again to objective, that’s probably not his sport.
He can hyperlink the play, he does hyperlink the play, but it surely’s not the place he’s greatest suited. That’s one thing that he may work on.
However I believe he’s a part of this rising development, in the event you consider perhaps Sesko or Erling Haaland, guys like that who’re tall but in addition fairly fast and as soon as they get transferring, they’re very troublesome to cease.
Who’s Benjamin Sesko and the way does he examine to Ekitike?
There are similarities within the type of peak and stride and that type of factor. Sesko’s a much bigger unit, I assume, taller.
They’re each good goalscorers. I like Ekitike extra within the sense that there’s loads to love about Sesko however I believe Ekitike is a bit much less predictable.
Sesko’s good and I believe any individual’s going to get a extremely, actually good striker there. I simply marvel if Ekitike, within the fullness of time, simply with the number of issues he can do, will simply be much less predictable and more easy to pin down.
However, Sesko, as soon as he will get transferring, tempo, energy, peak, all that stuff. Sesko’s in all probability higher within the air however they’re each actually attention-grabbing gamers.
