9 minutes. This is Hugo Ekitike’s playing time this season. Not that the 21-year-old Parisian striker is injured, but simply because he is not part of the PSG project. And the latter cannot say that he was not aware of Parisian designs towards him. At the end of the transfer window, Nasser Al-Khelaifi and Luis Campos did everything to force him to leave the capital. West Ham, Crystal Palace, Lens and even Eintracht Frankfurt surveyed the field to recover it in the home stretch of the transfer window.
But it was indeed with the German club that it was the hottest. The Parisian management wanted at all costs to integrate him into the deal with Randal Kolo Muani, but the former Rémois refused to serve as a bargaining chip. If the RKM deal was able to conclude on the gong despite this unforeseen setback by PSG, Ekitike (4 goals and 4 assists last year in 34 matches) became persona non grata in Paris. Not registered on the European lists, sidelined and not appearing in the pro group for a while, No. 44 is patiently biding his time.
LOSC has come to the news, an English club interested for this winter
And to know a little about his news, you have to go to his Instagram account where he regularly gives his news: on his travels (he was in his former club Vejle in Denmark in recent days), on his daily life (he was training of PSG with the club’s non-international players), on his outings (to MMA fights in particular with Mbappé & co) or on his wild EA24 FC games with Ethan Mbappé. If he keeps busy as best he can, the international French hopeful, inevitably not selected by Thierry Henry, will have to quickly find a way to get back on the pitch to make people talk about him again and hope for a place for the 2024 Olympics… in Paris.
This will undoubtedly involve a departure this winter. A solution that could satisfy everyone if both parties ever come together. Because inevitably the player’s precarious sporting situation has caused his market value to melt away… but not his popularity rating, which is still intact in a market for No. 9s that is sparse at this time of year. If LOSC came to the news shortly after the end of the transfer window for recruitment as a wildcard, it didn’t go any further.
The northern club could well return to attack this winter if necessary. But it is more abroad that interest is growing. According to our information, an English club whose name has not been leaked is still very interested and could go on the offensive this winter. In Ligue 1, few clubs can afford to relaunch the French striker except as part of a loan with significant salary coverage (editor’s note: Hugo Ekitike currently receives 600,000 euros gross per month until June 2027). An ultimate solution, which could be favored by PSG which absolutely wants to get rid of Hugo Ekitike this winter…
