{"id":23835,"date":"2022-07-17T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/17\/eddie-howe-speaks-out-over-newcastles-failed-ekitike-pursuit\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T19:00:43","slug":"eddie-howe-speaks-out-over-newcastles-failed-ekitike-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/17\/eddie-howe-speaks-out-over-newcastles-failed-ekitike-pursuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Howe speaks out over Newcastle\u2019s failed Ekitike pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<hr>\n<p>Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe has, on Sunday, provided his take on the club\u2019s ultimately fruitless pursuit of Stade de Reims star Hugo Ekitike.<\/p>\n<p>The name of attacking sensation Ekitike has of course taken its place front and centre in the headlines across the continent this summer.<\/p>\n<p>This comes with the 20-year-old having been identified as a priority target on the part of a number of clubs, first and foremost Premier League outfit Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, it even appeared as though a move to St. James\u2019 Park was as good as done, with the newly-minted Magpies ready to splash out upwards of \u20ac30 million on Ekitike\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hugo Ekitike deal. Newcastle and Reims have full agreement on \u20ac30m fee plus \u20ac5m add-ons, agent is now in talks with Newcastle after being given permission by Reims. \u2b50\ufe0f?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NUFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Work in progress as Newcastle have been leading the race for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1533159014279823360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In turn, it no doubt came as a blow for all associated with Newcastle upon word surfacing that the gifted starlet was stalling on a move to Tyneside, having set his sights on a move to one of European football\u2019s giants.<\/p>\n<p>The outfit in question? PSG.<\/p>\n<p>And it did not take at all long for the French champions to take full advantage of this situation, tying up a long-term deal for Ekitike this weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Paris Saint-Germain is pleased to announce the arrival of Hugo Ekitik\u00e9 from Stade de Reims. \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>The French striker is on loan, with an option to buy, until the end of the season. ??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeHugo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WelcomeHugo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SSOzpWUXpq\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/SSOzpWUXpq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_English) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSG_English\/status\/1548374722429079552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the back of his side\u2019s failed pursuit of the young attacker being made official, it therefore came as little surprise when the subject of Newcastle\u2019s interest in Ekitike was put to none other than Eddie Howe earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>The English tactician, though, was quick to assure that \u2018no hard feelings\u2019 exist on the part of the Magpies, despite all at the club being of the opinion that Ekitike \u2018could have done a really good job\u2019 at St. James\u2019 Park:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Howe on Ekitike: \u201cWe really like Hugo but it wasn\u2019t to be. He has decided to go to PSG, and there are no hard feelings towards the lad. We wish him well. We thought he was a real talent &amp; could have done a really good job. They are the teams we are competing against.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nufc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Craig Hope (@CraigHope_DM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigHope_DM\/status\/1548707307839700995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/saturdays-transfer-rumours-lewandowski-kounde-zinchenko-broja-more\/\">Saturday\u2019s transfer rumours: Lewandowski, Kound\u00e9, Zinchenko, Broja &amp; more<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/chelsea-to-allow-armando-broja-to-join-west-ham-on-one-condition\/\">Chelsea to allow Armando Broja to join West Ham on one condition<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe has, on Sunday, provided his take on the club\u2019s ultimately fruitless pursuit of Stade de Reims star Hugo Ekitike. The name of attacking sensation Ekitike has of course taken its place front and centre in the headlines across the continent this summer. This comes with the 20-year-old having been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-23835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}