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Liverpool new boy Hugo Ekitike has opened up on viral images that showed him wearing a classic Steven Gerrard shirt ahead of his transfer from Frankfurt this week

Ultimately, Hugo Ekitike has chosen Liverpool as his new home. He is leaving Eintracht Frankfurt having signed a six-year contract at Anfield and in a deal that could, if all conditions are met, eventually rise to about £79million ($107m), taking Liverpool’s summer expenditure to just under £300m.

Liverpool have completed another high-profile signing this week as Hugo Ekitike has joined the Reds. Hugo Ekitike arrives as the fourth big-money signing at Anfield this summer after Florian Wirtz, Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong, and there could be more to come.

Luis Diaz and Wataru Endo reacted to a message from Liverpool to their new star striker Hugo Ekitike on social media.

There was a heartwarming moment for Liverpool fans on Thursday as new signing Hugo Ekitiké met his team-mates for the first time — in Hong Kong, where the Reds are currently stationed for

More than any player, Ekitike somehow both reaffirms and rejects conventional wisdom and scouting biases. He's everything "dumb" clubs get wrong about transfers, and everything "smart" clubs get right.

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