Presenter Rubi Deschamps and our cameras followed the Frenchman around for unrivalled insight into his life off the pitch and the early phases of his Liverpool career.
Ekitike has racked up 10 goals amid an encouraging debut season with the Reds so far, having completed a switch from Eintracht Frankfurt in the summer.
It’s proving to be another beneficial life experience for the 23-year-old, with England now the fourth country he has called home.
“My life changed completely since I signed here,” Ekitike says. “I’m even more famous in my country. Also the level of the games I play. It’s just a different life.
“How people see me, I feel like a lot of people know me. I like the side that people recognise that you’re good at football, people like what you do on the pitch. But I like kind of being calm outside.
“I would just love to do every random thing outside. That’s how I see life.”
On adapting to Liverpool, he adds: “If you don’t have pressure, if people don’t care, that means you’re not at the right place. I’m at the right place.
“I know what people expect. I have my expectations too. I’m just working on being as good as people expect me to be and I know I’m in a place I was dreaming to be.
“I’ve been to so (many) places and you always have something to reach. I think that’s what football is. I always think that football makes you tired physically but mentally, if you want to get to the top and do and achieve things, it’s always about (going) again and again and again.
“Because if tomorrow I score a brace and I say, ‘I’m really good’, it stops. Obviously I want to be the best – that’s why I’m playing. But I know I have so much work, so (many) things to improve. But, of course, I want to be the best.”
