Frankfurt sports director provides information
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The decision on a possible contract extension by Mario Götze near Eintracht Frankfurt should be made after Christmas at the earliest. “We sat together for a long time and discussed ten days ago and discussed it in such a way that we sit down in winter and query the status quo,” said sports director Markus Krösche.
Götze’s contract expires at the end of the season. The 33 -year -old world champion in 2014 had recently indicated that he could very well imagine another season with the Hesse. The offensive midfielder, who once played for Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, switched from the Netherlands to Eintracht in 2022 for 3 million euros from PSV Eindhoven.
“Mario is an extremely important part of our team and has a large part in the fact that we have been so successful in recent years. He is also an important factor in the young team because he can explain to the boys that life is not always uphill, but there are also bad phases,” praised Krösche.
On the pitch, Götze also has “incredible quality and can lift us to the next level. He is still fit and still wants it, that is also important,” said the 44-year-old. Götze himself had declared that if it were up to him, his contract would “definitely go beyond the current season”.
Krösche pulls a positive transfer conclusion and talks about changed talent market
Meanwhile, Manager Krösche drew a positive conclusion of the expired transfer period on Monday. “I believe that on the whole we can be very satisfied with the transfer summer,” the ex-professional is quoted by the “kicker”. As desired, there were not too many changes. With Jonathan Burkardt, Ritsu Doan and Michael Zetterer, the Hessen presented three new additions. Including purchased purchase options, 57.6 million euros were spent-the opposite stands for EUR 127.2 million for the sales of Hugo Ekitiké (FC Liverpool) and Tuta (Al-Duhail SC).
In Frankfurt you would always consider where to improve. But Krösche also said: “In football, you often make the mistake in football better than our own and always have the feeling: ‘We are missing … if we still have it, then …’ But I think the decisive factor is that you always remember the quality of the players you have.” The SGE wanted to block the development of their own players “under no circumstances”. Krösche registers a change on the market with a view to top talents. “You can see that an incredible number of now try to take the players off the market earlier. This is a highly competitive area, you can see that from the price increase.” Therefore, Eintracht is out to take a “middle ground”.
“On the one hand, it is about going this rat race along, of course, by naturally trying to commit young players, even if we may have competition,” the sports director stated. On the other hand, however, the SBU must “be a little earlier, become faster and more efficient in the scouting process” before other clubs are busting to become talent. Alternatively, it is conceivable to resort to such young players who could not start with large clubs – like once with attackers Ekitiké, who had been signed by PSG and took the step towards FC Liverpool for a transfer of EUR 95 million.
In the past, Eintracht knew how to find talented players like hardly any other club and later sell them for high sums to larger clubs. By September 1st, the Frankfurter lost 8.5 percent of the squad value: from 355.05 million to EUR 324.9 million.