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North Wales Chronicle
22-07-2025
- Business
- North Wales Chronicle
Hugo Ekitike set to put finishing touches to his big-money Liverpool switch
Arne Slot's Premier League champions reached a deal with the German club on Monday to sign the 23-year-old for a guaranteed £69million plus a potential £10million in add-ons. Frankfurt granted Ekitike permission to travel to England to complete the deal and the frontman is understood to have headed to the capital rather than Merseyside to complete the deal. The striker is due to undergo his medical and sign a six-year deal before heading to Asia to join his new Liverpool team-mates on their pre-season tour. A post shared by Liverpool Football Club (@liverpoolfc) PA understands Newcastle and Manchester United had been interested in Ekitike, who is set continue Liverpool's summer spending spree. Florian Wirtz arrived from Bayer Leverkusen in an initial £100m deal that could rise to £116m, while Jeremie Frimpong also joined from them in a £29.5m switch and Milos Kerkez left Bournemouth for £40m. Giorgi Mamardashvili has also linked up with Liverpool after agreeing a deal with Valencia last August, along with fellow goalkeepers Armin Pecsi and Freddie Woodman.
Leader Live
22-07-2025
- Business
- Leader Live
Hugo Ekitike set to put finishing touches to his big-money Liverpool switch
Arne Slot's Premier League champions reached a deal with the German club on Monday to sign the 23-year-old for a guaranteed £69million plus a potential £10million in add-ons. Frankfurt granted Ekitike permission to travel to England to complete the deal and the frontman is understood to have headed to the capital rather than Merseyside to complete the deal. The striker is due to undergo his medical and sign a six-year deal before heading to Asia to join his new Liverpool team-mates on their pre-season tour. A post shared by Liverpool Football Club (@liverpoolfc) PA understands Newcastle and Manchester United had been interested in Ekitike, who is set continue Liverpool's summer spending spree. Florian Wirtz arrived from Bayer Leverkusen in an initial £100m deal that could rise to £116m, while Jeremie Frimpong also joined from them in a £29.5m switch and Milos Kerkez left Bournemouth for £40m. Giorgi Mamardashvili has also linked up with Liverpool after agreeing a deal with Valencia last August, along with fellow goalkeepers Armin Pecsi and Freddie Woodman.
South Wales Guardian
22-07-2025
- Business
- South Wales Guardian
Hugo Ekitike set to put finishing touches to his big-money Liverpool switch
Arne Slot's Premier League champions reached a deal with the German club on Monday to sign the 23-year-old for a guaranteed £69million plus a potential £10million in add-ons. Frankfurt granted Ekitike permission to travel to England to complete the deal and the frontman is understood to have headed to the capital rather than Merseyside to complete the deal. The striker is due to undergo his medical and sign a six-year deal before heading to Asia to join his new Liverpool team-mates on their pre-season tour. A post shared by Liverpool Football Club (@liverpoolfc) PA understands Newcastle and Manchester United had been interested in Ekitike, who is set continue Liverpool's summer spending spree. Florian Wirtz arrived from Bayer Leverkusen in an initial £100m deal that could rise to £116m, while Jeremie Frimpong also joined from them in a £29.5m switch and Milos Kerkez left Bournemouth for £40m. Giorgi Mamardashvili has also linked up with Liverpool after agreeing a deal with Valencia last August, along with fellow goalkeepers Armin Pecsi and Freddie Woodman.
Rhyl Journal
22-07-2025
- Business
- Rhyl Journal
Hugo Ekitike set to put finishing touches to his big-money Liverpool switch
Arne Slot's Premier League champions reached a deal with the German club on Monday to sign the 23-year-old for a guaranteed £69million plus a potential £10million in add-ons. Frankfurt granted Ekitike permission to travel to England to complete the deal and the frontman is understood to have headed to the capital rather than Merseyside to complete the deal. The striker is due to undergo his medical and sign a six-year deal before heading to Asia to join his new Liverpool team-mates on their pre-season tour. A post shared by Liverpool Football Club (@liverpoolfc) PA understands Newcastle and Manchester United had been interested in Ekitike, who is set continue Liverpool's summer spending spree. Florian Wirtz arrived from Bayer Leverkusen in an initial £100m deal that could rise to £116m, while Jeremie Frimpong also joined from them in a £29.5m switch and Milos Kerkez left Bournemouth for £40m. Giorgi Mamardashvili has also linked up with Liverpool after agreeing a deal with Valencia last August, along with fellow goalkeepers Armin Pecsi and Freddie Woodman.
Telegraph
13-07-2025
- Sport
- Telegraph
Liverpool players told to be themselves in emotional return after Jota tragedy
Arne Slot has said Liverpool will carry the memory of Diogo Jota forever as they make an emotional return to playing duties on Sunday. Liverpool took the tough decision to go ahead with their opening pre-season friendly of the summer, travelling to Preston North End for the first game since the Portugal striker's death. Slot's statesmanship has come to the fore as a club figurehead since Jota died in a car crash on July 3, and ahead of a poignant afternoon he has spoken movingly about the difficulty but necessity to play again in Jota's honour. 'Nothing seems to be important if we think of what has happened,' Slot told 'But we are a football club and we need to train and we need to play again, if we want it or not. 'What I've said to the players, I can say it here as well. It's very difficult to find the right words because we constantly debate what is appropriate. What is appropriate in our actions? What is appropriate [for] what we have to say? Can we train again? Can we laugh again? Can we be angry if there's a wrong decision? And I've said to them, maybe the best thing for us to do is handle this situation like Jota was. 'And what I meant with that is that Jota was always himself, it didn't matter if he was talking to me, to his team-mates, to the staff, he was always himself. So let us try to be ourselves as well. So, if we want to laugh we laugh; if we want to cry we're going to cry. If they want to train they can train, if they don't want to train they can not train. But be yourself, don't think you have to be different than your emotions tell you.' There will be a series of tributes at Deepdale, Liverpool supporters travelling in volume to stand side-by-side with their grieving players. Liverpool retired the No 20 shirt on Friday – a decision announced at 20.20pm – and Slot said that the most fitting tribute will be for the club to demonstrate the togetherness and selflessness which was one of Jota's many assets. 'Jots was the player that if things were really, really, really difficult, I always looked at him and said, 'Now we need something special from you.' And he delivered so many times in those moments,' said Slot. 'I can come up with all of these moments, even before I was here he had many of these moments as well. So we are in a very difficult time, so let's try to do what Diogo did so many times. If it's so difficult then try a little bit harder or just keep on going and try to make it work. 'We will always carry him with us in our hearts, in our thoughts, wherever we go. Maybe especially in difficult moments. To retire his shirt is the one thing we could, should and have done. 'What I take comfort in [is that] in the last month of his life he was a champion in everything. A champion for his family, which is the main and most important thing, because he got married. A champion for his country because he won the Nations League. And of course a champion for us by winning the Premier League.'
