Perhaps Hugo Ekitike spoke too soon. Back in February, the forward was feeling reflective. “Sometimes I sit at home and think, 'Wow, it’s been a year already,'” he said. And that was before a summer squabble for his services that saw a big from his long-term admirers at Newcastle and the prospect of a move to Liverpool that would make him one of the most expensive signings in their history.
A striker who says he has an interest in fashion has become fashionable. Not for the first time, either. The eventual verdict – perhaps Ekitike’s own – was that his 2022 move to Paris Saint-Germain came too soon. He got the experience of understudying the Galacticos of Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Neymar and then overlooked as Luis Enrique forged a younger forward line to conquer Europe.
