Eintracht Frankfurt is currently preparing for the new 2022/2023 season, in which the club will start in the Champions League for the first time in the club’s history. Eintracht is pursuing a special transfer strategy in order to set up the team in the best possible way for both the premier class and everyday life in the Bundesliga.
Sports director Markus Krösche recently explained what is particularly important to him and the other squad planners at SBU in order to further develop the team of head coach Oliver Glasner this year.
“Unpredictability is crucial in order to be successful in the long term. The opponent must not know what to expect,” Krösche was quoted as saying in the “kicker”.
The Frankfurters had often lacked the element of unpredictability recently, especially in the Bundesliga. The Hessians found it particularly difficult against defensively oriented teams in the past season, only winning four of their 17 home games in the Bundesliga.
The huge success in the European Cup by winning the Europa League did not hide the fact at the management level of Eintracht that in day-to-day business in the Bundesliga, the right alternatives were far too often missing to play successfully against opponents who were nominally inferior.
Krösche convinced of Frankfurt’s new variability
Previous external signings Lucas Alario (Bayer Leverkusen), Randal Kolo Muani (FC Nantes), Mario Götze (PSV Eindhoven) and Faride Alidou (Hamburger SV) are all there to give Frankfurt a lot more flexibility in attack.
“The coach has to see for each individual game which player he needs in which combination in order to win. You create unpredictability through variability in the squad and in the individual positions,” said Krösche about SBU’s previous purchasing policy in the current transfer period.
The Frankfurt sports director was confident that with the help of the newly signed staff, more power and creativity will soon be seen again: “We have a lot of skills to find solutions against the deep block.”
Eintracht Frankfurt finished the last Bundesliga season in eleventh place with only ten wins and 45 goals scored. In the second half of the season, the team only got two points more than SpVgg Greuther Fürth, who was bottom of the table.