This season, we no longer stop it. From the height of his 18 goals and 6 assists in 34 matches in all competitions, Hugo Ekitike has certainly crossed a level in the ranks of the Eintracht Frankfurt. To the point of becoming one of the most prominent attackers in the Bundesliga.
At his hatching in Reims, it was the expected trajectory for the young talent today 22 years. International Hopes Tricolor, the interested party had been loaned to PSG as part of a deal at 35 million euros in the summer of 2022, with the ambition to walk in the footsteps of Kylian Mbappé. But everything did not go as planned.
“I was not helped …”
“” I always felt that I had the level, but there was a context. I arrive in the last year of Messi and Neymar. Will get them out … you can'the blows in an interview published this Wednesday by L'Equipe. You are behind, you try to scratch time. Two minutes, fifteen minutes, two games on the bench then sixty minutes … There is no lie in football. There is only continuity that makes you become a player who can count. »»
In 33 appearances in the red and blue jersey, so the Champagne will be satisfied with four goals and four assists. Far from its current German standards. “” I will never say that I did everything well. I could have done better, it is the truth, but I was not helped for what I do better. I was not given confidence, he regrets this Parisian experience. Even during training, even through discussions … You have never really taken the time to chat with me to help me. I found myself in a situation where I had to manage. Even in match, I had to think about it in my way of getting around so as not to hinder this or that player for the team to work. All that, mixed with a confidence that was not at the maximum, with a different football … it makes a lot of information that made it worked. »»
