The summer transfer window is heating up, with Premier League heavyweights clashing over mutual targets and trying to nab their best players off one another. Liverpool and Newcastle United are the latest duo to butt heads, with Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike waiting patiently to discover how the tussle will affect their club futures.

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Newcastle want Ekitike. Liverpool want Isak. Is there a world in which selling one and bringing in the other makes sense for Eddie Howe?

Newcastle have reportedly identified a Premier League striker as an Hugo Ekitike, in a move which could stun Tottenham amid their own transfer attempts.

Newcastle are being 'forced to accelerate' talks to sign Hugo Ekitike as they now also 'fear' a 'hijack' from a second Premier League rival.

Newcastle's interest in Hugo Ekitike goes back to January 2022, the first transfer window with their Saudi Arabian owners. Back then they were unable to make a deal work and in the summer they ultimately chose Alexander Isak instead.