Hugo Ekitike will not score 20+ goals this season. Which means that they are spending 110 million give or take on the first year for transfer fee + salary. They could have gotten Osimhen for the same money, you mean to tell me Ekitike worths more than Osimhen? That makes no sense and he definitely doesn't. They could have spent less to get better players, they just wasted a ton of money for no reason.
Liverpool made a huge mistake with this deal, I am sure of it, they are going to not see his mistakes and issues over course of just one game, but after a while, he is going to be like a Nunez deal. Liverpool won the title twice without a proper striker, so maybe they will do it again, but they seriously need a good striker one of these years.
Liverpool has Mo Salah as goal getter but they impossible to rely on this player for whole season especially Liverpool have to play on several different competition with tight fixtures so Liverpool should have good depth of squad and last season without proper striker they can get the title but Slot feel forward lines is the weaknesses which should be improved especially after Diogo Jota death and Nunez rumoured will be left this summer
Ekitike is potential player especially he is still young 23 years so maybe Liverpool can consider him as long term investment for the team but indeed he certainly overpriced but Slot is very confident Ekitike can being an a good player in Liverpool so that's why he personally convincing Ekitike to moved to Liverpool and in this team Ekitike will gets 6 years contract