Liverpool signed each Hugo Ekitike and Alexander Isak to enhance their attacking choices in the summertime switch window.
Ekitike used to be signed previous from Eintracht Frankfurt and he made an outstanding begin to the workforce for the Reds.
The French attacker has scored two targets within the Premier League and one function within the Neighborhood Protect.
Isak used to be signed later because of Newcastle United enjoying laborious ball over letting him depart the membership.
French soccer journalist Julien Laurens has now claimed that Ekitike wouldn’t have signed for the Premier League giants if he knew that they might even be signing Isak this summer season.
Isak, being the costliest signing in Premier League historical past, is anticipated to begin week in week out for the Merseyside membership and that may push Ekitike to the bench.
Even in opposition to Atletico Madrid within the Champions League, Isak began the fit and Ekitike got here on instead.
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Talking on BBC 5 Reside Recreation, Laurens has claimed that during his opinion, Ekitike wouldn’t have signed for the membership if he knew they might be signing Isak as smartly.
He stated:
“I really don’t think so [would have signed if he knew Isak was coming]. I really think he signed after a first approach from Liverpool to Newcastle for Isak, when Newcastle closed the door. From a Liverpool point of view, that was before Isak went on strike or stopped training with them. Then, they kind of reverted to Ekitike who was on his way to Newcastle in the first place.”
“We knew that as soon as Isak would be fit, the one to be dropped would be Ekitike. It was just very clear. Can they play together? Of course they can through games, you can play Ekitike, maybe a bit on the left, but that’s not his position really.”
“It’s never going to be Ekitike ahead of Isak unless Isak is not fit.”
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Arne Slot has to control his strikers cleverlyHugo Ekitike of Liverpool (Picture via Stu Forster/Getty Photographs)
As Laurens rightly identified, Slot may nonetheless use either one of them in conjunction with Ekitike at the left and Isak up entrance, however the query stays, would that go well with Ekitike’s recreation and produce the most productive out of him?
Despite the fact that it is smart on paper, it would nonetheless imply not anything as Slot may have the option to deploy either one of them in combination.
It’s nonetheless too early to make assumptions about each the strikers for the reason that season began simply over a month in the past.
All we all know is that the Reds now have two proficient strikers and taking into account they compete for all of the competitions they participate in, each attackers gets sufficient possibilities to make their mark.
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