Hugo Ekitike could deny Frankfurt goodbye wish as Liverpool star's message explains it all

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The Liverpool forward returns to his former club tonight having said a classy farewell to them in the summerMark is a Content Editor at Reach PLC's Liverpool Hub, and was appointed to the role in 2025. That's if it isn't the player themselves who has done the sending of course.

I haven’t forgotten anything since my first day among you."The truth is its here that I learned love - true love, first the love of the most incredible fans ever (thank you for your love your warmth and your support, thank you for celebrated me as one of yours every time, I never felt like a stranger among you) then the love of the entire club from top to bottom, you have each been at one time a shoulder or an ear for me, I grew up with you, and I owe you for continuing to be what I have become among you and hold your values high..."We never really leave those we love, even far from Deutsche Bank Park, I will fulfill my new role, being the first supporter of this club that I love. I spent the best year of my life with you, you are engraved in me.

He got a nice response from Frankfurt too, who said he was 'always an eagle!' And it explains a thing or two as well.Ekitike clearly loved his time at Frankfurt, but when the time came to take the step up to a bigger club he was always going to embrace it in the best possible manner, leaving the best possible impression as he did so.Elsewhere among Liverpool's major summer arrivals, you can't say the same thing. That has helped create a situation where he feels under the microscope constantly both at home and abroad, and that pressure seems to be weighing on him.Indeed none of Isak, Wirtz or Kerkez look particularly at home at Liverpool yet, and while there are a multitude of different reasons for that, one of them might well be the way they left their previous clubs or their homelands.So it perhaps should be no surprise that Ekitike is the one who has settled the quickest then, with the Frenchman looking unburdened and able to express the talent that he, Frankfurt fans and now Liverpool supporters know he has.Arne Slot should turn to him from the start at Deutsche Bank Park on Wednesday night, and if he does there will be waves and smiles to the crowd, but there will also be a determination to inflict Champions League damage upon them, despite what he wished them in his message.As well as a confidence that he is good enough to do just that from everyone inside the stadium.Watch Eintracht Frankfurt vs Liverpool on TNT SportsThis article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it.