Hugo Ekitike is a long time target of bigger premier league clubs but a move to the Borussia Dortmund's may appeal to the 19 year old if an offer was made because Dortmund had a good record with young up and coming players.
Especially, considering he is presently part of the youngest team in europe's top five leagues. Although, this is only his first full season in the french top teams. He had spent half of last season on loan in the danish super leaguer, we have a lot of thing to be happy about.
This player has been one of the one of the most scary forwards in liegern this season, demonstrating the type of all-round attacking attributes needed to succeed at a big club. In 21 league appearances this season, he starts 14 of them, the teenager has scored 9 goals and also 2 assists at a good rate of a goal contribution every 105 minutes.
For context, he have more goal involvement than Vinicius jr, is managing in his best season yet at Madrid. This is all the more exciting considering the team he is playing in. Rants presently sits 12th in the league and ranked 14th for goal netted and 18th for potential goals.
Considering there past record, it is wonderful defensive record, sixth in legend by goals conceded that has helped them a lot and keeping them competitive in mid-table and keep them clear from the danger of relegation. It is no big surprise then to hear that Hugo Ekitike is the only player in the squad to have netted more than 4 or that he is overperforming what people think that he could score, which suggests his tally should be closer to six.
In fact the player is scoring beautiful goals with almost a third of his shots, the sort of rate this is almost impossible to continue in the long term. Only players like Pierre-emerick Aubameyang and Borker Mayoral are scoring more regularly this season but this should not necessarily be a cause for concern.
Erlang Horland has also persistent performed more than his expected goals and while Hugo Ekitike isn't at his level, getting someone who is more than able to netted from low quality chances is no terrible thing when compensating for the sale of a superstar.
Not only is he an good scorer but he also has a excellent natural instinct for picking up dangerous spot from which to score. If he can do so in a side which does not make a lot of chances then he will thrive in a more attacking outfit.
It is not only because he can score more goals that catches the eye, he is tall at six foot two and rangy in his physique, Hugo Ekitike can also use the ball in deeper position or out wide and dribble players. Speaking of is dribble ability, he completes two dribbles per game, ranking in the top 4% of forwards in this metric according to FB ref.
Ekitike also makes a brilliant tackles and interceptions a match and in a team that use a mid to low block is always wanting to track back and get stuck in. In my little opinion, due to the fact that Borussia Dortmund team that has been lacking in the counter-attack in previous seasons, this player will be most welcome. Crucially BVB will not need to spend a lot of money.
In January rants asked for a at least of thirty million euros for the french prodigy, with a hefty sell-on clause thrown in but during this summer, Ekitike will have just 2 years left on his contract. If Borussia Dortmund can convince Hugo Ekitike, then there will certainly be a way for bargaining with the club.