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Interesting thing about Ekitike is he’s 23 and for a striker valued at £80m, he still has no full France national team caps. You’d expect he would have had a few by now given the age and fee.

With Etikite we could have been challenging for the league, with Wissa we won’t be.

Romano tried to unsettle Tino all summer, but we’ve held firm. I’m confident we do it again and set a precedent for when these paid for journos try to unsettle our players.

Yep I’m with you on this one, I don’t think they want Ekitike too. They tried to bully us, but if we hold firm and get both, they’ll look like a bunch of plonkers. We might have just beaten them in a game of poker.

I don’t think Liverpool want Etikite, they just tried to call our bluff and we havn’t fallen for it.

I wonder if Liverpool are annoyed the Saudi clubs haven’t come in with big money for Nunez or Diaz this summer, so they can’t raise the expected funds they thought they had.

So Romano & Ornstein are both being paid by Liverpool, bunch of cunts. Stand firm and don’t fall for it.

Chelsea now interest too

Wow this is really happening 😎

Should Newcastle conclude this deal, then Ekitike would represent a marquee signing, similar to when Alexander Isak arrived in August 2022 and Sandro Tonali joined the following July. Ekitike is a player with elite potential and would really boost Newcastle’s firepower. The obvious follow-up question is what this means for Isak’s future, and the insistence is that Newcastle want to boast both among their frontline options. How Eddie Howe would keep that pair plus Anthony Gordon, Harvey Barnes and Anthony Elanga happy is unclear, and the finances involved in retaining them all will stretch Newcastle from a PSR perspective, but those are enviable “problems” to have. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/63...e-transfer-newcastle-75m-eintracht-frankfurt/

Isak going nowhere according to Orny

New version of the tweet

This thread was right!

Best topic on the forum for me, love this 😁

Can always get bailed out by Saudi clubs like tons having been doing, and we’ve got precedent to get away with it.

Or we’ve decided to do a Chelsea and say fuck it!

Newcastle United have rekindled their interest in French forward Hugo Ekitike as they look to find a striker to play alongside Alexander Isak. Having missed out on Brazil international João Pedroearlier this month, when he preferred a move from Brighton to Chelsea, Newcastle are still hoping to signanother striker in this window. With Champions League football and three domestic competitions to contend with next season, Newcastle cannot expect Isak to play in every game and need to rotate their forwards. Manager Eddie Howe has two players on the left in Anthony Gordon and Harvey Barnes, and having completed the £55 million signing of Anthony Elangafrom Nottingham Forest, he also has two players on the right with Jacob Murphy set to compete with the Sweden international. However, Isak does not have similar competition or cover, with Denmark Under-21 international William Osula the only other senior striker at the club following the departure of Callum Wilson. In June, Telegraph Sport revealed that Newcastle were still tracking Ekitike, but should they pull off the transfer it will be a major coup given how well he has played in the Bundesliga for Eintracht Frankfurt and for the France Under-21 side. Given the likes of Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea have all been linked with a move for the 23-year-old this summer, there is naturally caution on the Newcastle side, but they are looking into the possibility of doing a deal with the German club. Telegraph Sport understands Newcastle have made the player’s representatives aware of their desire to sign the France Under-21 international and will hope to agree a fee with the Bundesliga club. Ekitike has a release clause of around €100 million (£86 million) and Newcastle would almost certainly have to pay the full fee to get the transfer over the line. Newcastle are right to be wary. They have tried to sign Ekitike twice before, first in January 2022 and again in the summer window later that year. A deal was close to being completed on both occasions until the player decided to join Paris St-Germain. He failed to secure regular first-team football in Paris and signed for Frankfurt in 2024. Ekitike scored 22 goals with 12 assists in all competitions last season and helped secure Eintracht Champions League football. Should Newcastle complete the signing of the Frenchman it does not mean Isak will be sold this summer. The Newcastle hierarchy still intend to offer last season’s top goalscorer a new contract and have no interest in selling him in this window, when he still has three years left on his existing deal.

Make it ‘appearances based’, if he’s a crock then we we’ll be fine. Something like £30m, plus another £13 m if plays a 100 games.

Adingra Another one like Ferguson they’ve been trying to flog.

I’d rather have have Harvey Barnes upfront than Gordon, much better finisher too.

In the responses they’ve got Joao Pedo 😂