Liverpool signed each Hugo Ekitike and Alexander Isak to strengthen their attacking choices in the summertime switch window.
Ekitike was signed earlier from Eintracht Frankfurt and he made a powerful begin to the staff for the Reds.
The French attacker has scored two targets within the Premier League and one purpose within the Group Protect.
Isak was signed later attributable to Newcastle United taking part in arduous ball over letting him go away 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’d even be signing Isak this summer time.
Isak, being the costliest signing in Premier League historical past, is predicted 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 match and Ekitike got here on in its place.
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Talking on BBC 5 Stay Sport, Laurens has claimed that in his opinion, Ekitike wouldn’t have signed for the membership if he knew they’d be signing Isak as effectively.
He stated:
“I actually don’t assume so [would have signed if he knew Isak was coming]. I actually assume he signed after a primary strategy from Liverpool to Newcastle for Isak, when Newcastle closed the door. From a Liverpool perspective, that was earlier than Isak went on strike or stopped coaching with them. Then, they type of reverted to Ekitike who was on his approach to Newcastle within the first place.”
“We knew that as quickly as Isak could be match, the one to be dropped could be Ekitike. It was simply very clear. Can they play collectively? After all they’ll by video games, you may play Ekitike, perhaps a bit on the left, however that’s not his place actually.”
“It’s by no means going to be Ekitike forward of Isak except Isak just isn’t match.”
Arne Slot has to handle his strikers cleverly
Whereas having each strikers is a bonus for the Reds and supervisor Arne Slot, it may very well be unhealthy information for Ekitike as his taking part in time would now get affected.
As Laurens rightly identified, Slot might nonetheless use each of them along with Ekitike on the left and Isak up entrance, however the query stays, would that go well with Ekitike’s sport and convey the very best out of him?
Though it is smart on paper, it might nonetheless imply nothing as Slot might discover a approach to deploy each of them collectively.
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 contemplating they compete for all of the competitions they participate in, each attackers will get sufficient possibilities to make their mark.
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