Listing the glittering array of Hugo Ekitiké’s past and present teammates would make a lesser player blush. The Liverpool striker lined up alongside Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé during his Paris Saint-Germain days, limiting the opportunities for the young striker but providing a great schooling for someone who needs every bit of knowledge to have the edge over his current club’s record signing, Alexander Isak.
Ekitiké will come up against a couple more former colleagues in Omar Marmoush and Gianluigi Donnarumma when Liverpool visit Manchester City on Sunday. The Frenchman will lead the line, with Isak not fit to start and perhaps unable to feature. It will be another chance for Ekitiké to prove his training-ground osmosis has turned him into a top-class forward.
