Ekitidiot
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It already is. Both want that #9 shirt and there can be only one starter. I think sooner or later we'll see them together at LW and CF and it will be devastating.
There can be only one, huh?
Wish Sean Connery was around to tell them to chill out.
The over-reaction is because Isak isn't fit but will now have to start vs Palace, and likely stay on longer than planned putting him at greater risk of injury. And we've lost the goal threat of a 5 goals in 6 games striker.
Win at Palace and all will be forgiven - it we don't then this will rumble on.
It's almost like things happen in a season that you don't expect!
Justifies recruiting both strikers.
Justifies recruiting both strikers.
Everyone has said their piece, he has apologised. I fail to see how opening a thread, calling him Ekitidiot and getting all suicidal over our champions league final game against Crystal Palace just because Ekitike is not going to play is going to change anything. Apparently the entire team falls apart without him yet we are ready to call him an idiot at a whim.
Palace on Saturday is gonna be like trying to fuck your crush with someone else's dick. That's on him. God knows why you're not arsed.
It was just that journalist Julien Laurens speculating. I don't know how clubs handle this stuff. I'd have thought they'd be better off just being honest with him from the start, but maybe they think they can just smooth things over later. Who knows? If I had to guess I'd say they'd at least have told him they'd be signing someone else as well for him to compete with.
I’m wondering if we’d switch to a 4222 at some point with Isak and Ekitike at the tip, Wirtz and Salah inside left / right and Grav + Szobo sitting behind.
ah so nothing concrete. yea that sounds most likely, that’s if ekitikes crew even asked. it was obvious we were or would be 2 strikers light.
I don't know what that means. Anyway it's a simple situation and everyone is just repeating the same thing ad nauseam. He fucked up, I get it, nobody has a time machine, so let's move on.
Though I foresee a 2nd round of barrage if we don't get 3 points. Whatever.
Too narrow? I know both FBs are providing the width but then is it too attacking? And where's Macca ? 😢
The more I think about it the less plausible it seems. He obviously would've spoken to Slot about our plans for him. And don't contracts include goal and appearance bonuses etc? Buying a £125m world class player to compete with you is pretty damn relevant to that. He must've known.
We'd lost 3 strikers, even a dolt would know we would buy at least 2 replacements. And we were already in for Isak when we signed him. I'm sure he knew, and the club told him too.
I really think that he just forgot, either with the other yellow happening as soon as he came on, or that he just didn't compute that that's what would happen. It was naive and stupid, but I'd say it was a mistake rather than malicious or a reaction to Isak.
As soon as the pair of them play together and develop an understanding the whole thing will be forgotten, and if it isn't so what. It never really did Mane and Salah any harm to be so competitive and not really get on. In the years they played together you can count the times it publicly spilled over on a few fingers.
As soon as the pair of them play together and develop an understanding the whole thing will be forgotten, and if it isn't so what. It never really did Mane and Salah any harm to be so competitive and not really get on. In the years they played together you can count the times it publicly spilled over on a few fingers.
By far the most likely, yes.
I know we are commenting on a thread suggesting he's an idiot, and he may well be a bit thick, but it's taking idiocy to another level to think that the best way to make a point about wanting to play ahead of someone else is to get yourself suspended and therefore make certain that the other guy will play.
Lol I don't think anyone actually thinks he did it deliberately do they?! Just that he's fucking stupid for:
1. getting booked for petulance
2. forgetting about the booking
3. not even remembering about the booking even when doing his stupid pointless celebration knowing full well he'd get booked for it.
Like it's one thing to passively forget and be caught out by an instinctive foul or something, but this was a deliberate, voluntary act which he had time to think about. How fucking air-headed can you be?
1. getting booked for petulance
2. forgetting about the booking
3. not even remembering about the booking even when doing his stupid pointless celebration knowing full well he'd get booked for it.
Like it's one thing to passively forget and be caught out by an instinctive foul or something, but this was a deliberate, voluntary act which he had time to think about. How fucking air-headed can you be?
It's done now, I'm sure he's had a kick up the arse and will learn from it. It's not like he's the first footballer to do something dumb and not think. That doesn't make it ok, but we crack on. Players for us and other teams who were doing the business on the pitch have done much stupider things and received lengthy bans for it, and barely had this much animosity over it.
I'm annoyed about the Palace match but I'm not worried about Ekitike. With Nunez that stupidity seemed to pervade everything he did. Hugo just seems more like a Firmino style eccentric with a bit of clown thrown in. I don't get the impression he's actually thick and unteachable.
I think the thing with Nunez though was that he just wasn't that intelligent and it showed in his mannerisms and his decisions during the game (aside from that sending off, he didn't do anything else outrageously stupid).
Ekitike has the football brain, but just seems a bit arrogant and over confident, different strokes and all that I guess with players. Some have a bit more humility and self awareness than others. If we're good at one thing, it's schooling players into understanding "our way". Players who don't grasp that tend to move on sooner rather than later, but they are few and far between if they are good enough.
I guess the one concern we should have, is how much input Slot has into the purchase of the players and then how invested that makes him when they fuck him off.
Isak hattrick incoming
For me there are three levels of "attitude" in a player.
Swagger - this is fine, provided he has the ability to back it up. This was Gerrard's default setting once he was established.
Cockiness - this can cause occasional problems, usually with team-mates. See Bendtner, Niklas.
Arrogance - you've got to be World Class to get away with that. See Cantona, Eric.
I think Hugo's in between cockiness and arrogance, off the field at least, and that needs sorting out.
Confidence with humility is where he needs to be for now, he can go full cocky when he's had a 20-goal season.
Swagger - this is fine, provided he has the ability to back it up. This was Gerrard's default setting once he was established.
Cockiness - this can cause occasional problems, usually with team-mates. See Bendtner, Niklas.
Arrogance - you've got to be World Class to get away with that. See Cantona, Eric.
I think Hugo's in between cockiness and arrogance, off the field at least, and that needs sorting out.
Confidence with humility is where he needs to be for now, he can go full cocky when he's had a 20-goal season.
Interesting bit about his conversation with Will Still (Ekitike played under him at Reims)::
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Southampton boss Will Still has revealed how Hugo Ekitike predicted he would be a scoring substitute on the night as Liverpool won 2-1 at Anfield in the Carabao Cup third round.
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"Hugo cracks me up," Still said of his former player.
"We caught up before the game and he said he would come on and score and give me his shirt and bugger off!
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Source: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spo...s/southampton-boss-reveals-what-hugo-32537901
Given this context, I think I'd have preferred it if he'd run up to Still, taken off his top, folded it neatly and handed it to him and then run straight down the tunnel. At least it would've been a funny red.
Oh well, maybe this will see him bring back Firmino's strip-tease celebration in future.
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Southampton boss Will Still has revealed how Hugo Ekitike predicted he would be a scoring substitute on the night as Liverpool won 2-1 at Anfield in the Carabao Cup third round.
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"Hugo cracks me up," Still said of his former player.
"We caught up before the game and he said he would come on and score and give me his shirt and bugger off!
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Source: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spo...s/southampton-boss-reveals-what-hugo-32537901
Given this context, I think I'd have preferred it if he'd run up to Still, taken off his top, folded it neatly and handed it to him and then run straight down the tunnel. At least it would've been a funny red.
Oh well, maybe this will see him bring back Firmino's strip-tease celebration in future.
Yep I think that's right. He's part bumptious and excitable and part eccentric and away with the fairies. He's probably just got a bit carried away by how well things are going for him so far.
Highly doubt it
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