{"id":15746,"date":"2025-07-21T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=618969"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:13:43","slug":"liverpool-seal-hugo-ekitike-deal-worth-e95-million-from-eintracht-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/liverpool-seal-hugo-ekitike-deal-worth-e95-million-from-eintracht-frankfurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool seal Hugo Ekitike deal worth \u20ac95 million from Eintracht Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have sealed the signing of a new striker from Eintracht Frankfurt. The Reds aren\u2019t stopping this summer transfer window as they have bought one midfielder from Bayer Leverkusen, namely Florian Wirtz (\u20ac100 million+ deal) and now a striker from Frankfurt named Hugo Ekitike (\u20ac95 million deal). The deal is done and sealed, only the official announcement is pending. Liverpool were the champions of PL 2024\/25 season under Arne Slot and now the manager wants a complete change of the squad to think of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool are not slowing down in the summer transfer window, having sealed the signing of highly-rated striker Hugo Ekitike from Eintracht Frankfurt in a blockbuster \u20ac95 million deal. While the official announcement is still pending, the deal is understood to be done and dusted.<\/p>\n<p>Ekitike becomes Liverpool\u2019s second major signing of the window following the \u20ac100 million+ arrival of midfielder Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen. The two signings signal the club\u2019s clear intent to reshape their squad for the future under Arne Slot.<\/p>\n<p>Slot, who led the Reds to a sensational Premier League title in the 2024\/25 season, is aiming to build a new era at Anfield. The Dutch manager is reportedly pushing for a younger, dynamic squad capable of dominating for years to come, and Ekitike\u2019s addition fits perfectly into that vision.<\/p>\n<p>The French forward impressed in the Bundesliga with his pace, technical ability, and eye for goal, attracting interest from several top clubs before Liverpool swooped in to secure his signature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have sealed the signing of a new striker from Eintracht Frankfurt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":36827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3686,3341,1823,3796,3979,2604,3228],"class_list":["post-15746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-david-ornstein","tag-eintracht-frankfurt","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-hugo-ekitike","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-reds"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}