by The emergence of Hugo Ekikte in the Kai Tak Stadium on Thursday evening was enough to make Arne Slot sneaked on the new striker at the new Frenchman of the striker, Ibrahima Konate.
Echtike, whose change from Eintracht Frankfurt immediately flies £ 79 million from Eintracht Frankfurt to the Far East to join his new club, too many fanfare was brought to the field at an event in which 25,000 supporters took part.
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And Slot could not resist a playful push at Konate and his less than prolifly gate. Cue a lot of laughter from Konate’s colleagues when Slot had a huge grin and a knowledgeable view of his defender.
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In the defense of Konate, the middle half is used to prevent the goals more than register, but the gentle Wisecrack from the slot was a brief insight into the high standards he puts, with the joke that was taken into a good mood by everyone involved on this day.
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Despite Ekiti’s surprising appearance, however, it was the non -appearance of another center forward in Alexander Isak, who really wagged the tongues around the ground on that day.
The Newcastle United striker did not travel with the magpies on her trip to Singapore, and a thigh injury was the problem for the failure to travel. However, when the Liverpool training session ended in Hong Kong, it was generally reported that Isak now made known that he wanted to leave St. James’ Park in search of another club.
After Newcastle had recently been informed that he had no plans to sell his star striker, Liverpool quickly seemed to change from the Swedish international, and the door for a deal for Isak seemed to have closed.
How much the excitement of the player for deducting Newcastle is now unclear Liverpool’s thinking, but after they would break the British transfer record for the 25-year-old at the beginning of this month, the chatter for the Kai Tak was only on how much appetite is available in Angeld, to test the determination in the northern East.
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Liverpool had brought Merseyside to Merseyside three years ago before joining the magpie from Real Sociedad in a transfer of around 63 million pounds, but Darwin Nunez was finally selected instead, with Jürgen Klopp impressed, especially in Benfica from Uruguay International. Three years later, the prospect of Nunez to facilitate a blockbuster change for Isak is now possible.
A deal for ISAK would – just under 300 million GBP – over the 400 million. -Pfund brand take over what a club that is often presented as conservative and risk avers, in which transmission expenditure would be a remarkable amount. It will be fascinating to see what happens next, as the most important decision -makers at Anfield get in touch with Newcastle again.
Apart from the transmission speculation, it was a valuable training for the slot players who played a training game during a session that took around 90 minutes in the Kai Tak.
And an element of the preparatory tours in recent years, which did not return in 2025, is the concept of the “tour period”, which was introduced as a way to reduce the jet lag under Jürgen Klopp’s previous regime.
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Hong Kong is before Great Britain seven hours, so that the Reds squad would have been made to set their watches only three hours in recent years, which means that the players sometimes have certain meals at unusual times of the day. It was something that was not always popular in the squad.
However, the tour time was canceled by Slot and his employees, whereby the Liverpool schedule in Hong Kong was on their current tour until the local time. It is believed that the decision with the players has been made very well, since they adapt to both the time zone difference and the tedious training sessions in the scorching remote east temperatures.
After the meeting on Thursday, Virgil van Dijk said: “To be absolutely honest, I think that is more important [than a full pre-season] Is the break I have. I had about four and a half weeks what the longest I’ve had since then, I can’t even remember.
“Having this great pre-season means that we can work on so many aspects of our piece that we can improve. Defense, attack, set stick, that’s the main thing we try.
“It was nice to see so many fans out there. The field was a bit difficult to play, but we will get a few good minutes against AC Milan under the belt. Then we drive to Tokyo.”
