Hugo Ekitike and PSG, it’s already over. “Already”, because at 21 and after a season and a half at the club which bought him for almost 30 million euros, he has only made around thirty appearances on the pitch, many of them quite short and without any decisive gesture. at stake. The Parisian club announced this Thursday, February 1 that the striker was leaving for Frankfurt, as part of a loan with a compulsory purchase option of around 30 million euros.
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PSG striker Hugo Ekitike, who has not played since August, has been loaned until the end of the season with an option to buy to Eintracht Frankfurt, the two clubs announced this Thursday, February 1. The two parties reached agreement after long discussions for a loan with compulsory purchase option of around 30 million euros. PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and Axel Hellmann, manager of the German club, directly managed the negotiations from Doha where a meeting of the European Club Association (ECA), led by the PSG president, was taking place.
Eintracht Frankfurt, currently 6th in the Bundesliga, and PSG formalized this loan early Thursday evening. Arrived at PSG in the summer of 2022 and used very little, the 21-year-old striker has not played since August 12 and the first day of Ligue 1 against Lorient (0-0). He has 4 goals and 4 assists in 33 matches played for the capital. The former Rémois went to Germany on Thursday afternoon to undergo a medical examination and signed his loan before 6 p.m., the end time of the transfer window across the Rhine.
This winter, the Parisian club has been relatively discreet on the transfer market in January, recruiting two Brazilians, defender Lucas Beraldo from Sao Paulo FC, who has already played a few matches, and midfielder Gabriel Moscardo, on loan to SC Corinthians until the end of the season. Asked at a press conference at the PSG Campus in Poissy (Yvelines) about the possibility of recruiting a player, in particular a defender, to strengthen the squad, Luis Enrique replied: “ I don’t have my watch with me, but for the transfer window it’s a quarter to midnight as they say. […] Unless (the sports director) Luis Campos has a last minute surprise for us, I don’t think so “.