Manchester City could win the FA Cup next week, but it will not be a consolation for the dismal season they have endured in the Premier League and in the Champions League.
Followed by the latter by Real Madrid in February, the challenge of the title of the city was actually completed at the start of the year.
Pep Guardiola made key signatures in January, although he wishes to add some additional players to his team in summer.
Could it be ready to attack the Bundesliga once again?
The search for Man City for an attacker
As indicated earlier this week by the German media Bild, City has now joined the race for the attacker of Eintracht Frankfurt Hugo Ekitiké this summer.
They signed Omar Marmoush in January in the same club and it seems that they are trying to attack them once again.
Liverpool and Arsenal have been strongly linked to French lately, but Guardiola seems ready to make his movement.
Due to the clubs that pursue him, Frankfurt has placed a price of 100 million euros (85 million pounds sterling) on his head, which could dissuade some potential offers.
City has made its fair share of signatures from the German elite over the years, but it was their capture by Edin Dzeko who prepared the club for its first Premier League title.
Hugo Ekitike could be the next Edzeko de City Edin
Dzeko joined City Midway throughout the 2010/11 campaign – after its own prolific passage in the Bundesliga with Wolfsburg – and had a first month of first month, marking six times for the club.
The 2011/12 season saw the Etihad team claim its very first crown of the Premier League and Dzeko marked 19 times in all competitions under Roberto Mancini.
A Pur-Out-out striker, Bosnia put an end to his fate at the club by scoring 72 goals in 198 games, a more than respectable expense. This followed the 85 goals he had scored in just 142 games during his stay in Germany.
A potential German importation like Dzeko, Ekitike certainly has his own qualities in front of the goal. This is known. For Frankfurt this season, he found the bottom of the net 15 times in the Bundesliga.
In addition, he also created 12 major chances and succeeded with 1.6 dribbles per game, indicating that he offers more than clinical nature in front of the goal.
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Hugo Ekitike’s statistics for Frankfurt this season |
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Metric |
Bundesliga |
Europa League |
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Goals |
15 |
4 |
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Aid |
7 |
3 |
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Big chances created |
12 |
6 |
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Shots per game |
3.5 |
2.2 |
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Total duels won per game |
4.2 |
4.3 |
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Via sofas |
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During the years of training in his career, many expected that he continued to achieve great things, with media sections believing that he “could be the next Mbappe” after being linked to a move to Newcastle in 2022.
The young person may not have reached the heights of the current feeling of Real Madrid, but optimism is there that his career was relaunched in Frankfurt following a disappointing spell with PSG.
Compared to its Bundesliga peers, Ekitike ranks in the higher 9% for total shots (3.82), assists (0.29), shooting actions (3.52) and successful sockets (1.9) for 90 in the previous 365 days.
Not just happy to be a pure attacker, the Frenchman offers a lot in the last third. Although 85 million pounds sterling can turn off the city, if they can reduce this price, a move could be on the cards.
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While Guardiola already has a Talisman of Sergio Aguero in Erling Haaland, Ekitike could represent the perfect sub -study – just as Dzeko was all these years ago.
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