Frankfurt squad planning
Eight contracts expire at Eintracht Frankfurt in the summer of 2023, and free-transfer departures at the end of the season would hurt both sportingly and financially, especially for central defenders Evan Ndicka (23) and Daichi Kamada (26). Sports director Markus Krösche continues to hope for a future for the two top performers in the Main metropolis and does not assume a sale in January even if there are no extensions. Nevertheless, the squad could be smaller elsewhere.
“We really want to keep them, we’ve made them offers and explained their role at Eintracht in the future. Now we have to wait. We are convinced that it would be best for them to stay with Eintracht,” said the 42-year-old.table football“. Kamada joined Frankfurt from Sagan Tosu in 2017 for €1.6m, while Ndicka joined from AJ Auxerre a year later for €5.5m. Since then, both have established themselves as important players in the SBU system and increased their market value to EUR 30 million and EUR 32 million respectively. Both are among the most valuable Bundesliga professionals with an expiring contract.
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The fact that Eintracht was empty-handed at the end of this development would be a first in the club’s recent history. So far, the top performers have mostly left the club for high transfer fees, the most valuable players who went for free were Lukas Hradecky (market value at the time: 10 million euros) in 2018 to Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Sebastian Rode (9 million euros) in 2014 to FC Bayern .
Should Kamada and Ndicka decide against a new contract, a sale in January would be the last chance for revenue. Not an option for Krösche at the moment: “We are very happy with the squad. We do not want to and will not give up top performers. So I don’t think anything great is going to happen. But maybe someone will leave us to get more match practice.”
Eintracht Frankfurt: Onguéné to Red Bull Salzburg? A total of 3 interested parties
One of the candidates who would have more chances elsewhere is Jérôme Onguéné. The 25-year-old central defender came from Red Bull Salzburg on a free transfer in the summer, but missed a large part of the first half of the season due to injury and is currently behind. Most recently, a possible return campaign for the Austrian series champion on loan was discussed, Krösche confirmed contact with Salzburg in the “Wiesbaden courier“. In addition, there are “two other interested parties” who the sports director did not name.
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