After exchange statements
In the run-up to the Bundesliga duel with Eintracht Frankfurt (Sunday, from 5:30 p.m. in the TM live ticker), Cologne coach Steffen Baumgart reacted to midfielder Ellyes Skhiri’s recent statements about a change. The ambitions specifically expressed by the 27-year-old, whose contract with FC expires in the summer, to want to take the next step after four years in the cathedral city, do not mean “that we have already given up the fight for him,” said the coach.
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“After May, I’m open to anything. I don’t know yet what’s coming in the summer. It depends on the club’s project whether it fits with the coach and the sporting director. I don’t hold back my ambitions. I want to improve and play European. That’s what I work for, that’s what I do my best for. Let’s wait and see what happens,” Skhiri announced during the week in interviews with the “Bild” newspaper and the French “L’Équipe”. The national player of Tunisia, valued at 13 million euros, has been repeatedly linked with various clubs in recent weeks, in addition to Olympique Lyon also with Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Dortmund.
Skhiri also took a concrete position on the interest of the upcoming opponents from Cologne: “Frankfurt is playing very well this year, they are playing to reach the Champions League or the Europa League. Frankfurt could be a good project,” said the right-footer, who switched from Montpellier HSC to the Bundesliga club for six million euros in 2019 and has since scored 24 goals in 119 competitive games – Skhiri is one of the top scorers in Steffen’s team this season Baumgart.
“It’s not that we fell out of all clouds because he said so publicly,” the coach is now from the “table footballquoted. “I think it’s normal that he has ambitions and is thinking about other paths after four years,” Baumgart continued. He has no concerns that Skhiri, despite intentions to change, lacks the attitude to play the rest of the second half of the season with full commitment: “Who sees how he trains, how he works, how he is on the pitch: we don’t have to To worry about.”
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Cologne’s Skhiri on intentions to change: “My situation is clear”
Skhiri had previously announced that he was also at peace with the club. “My situation is clear, my contract expires in the summer. We have already spoken to the club, to Christian Keller and also to the coach. You know my ambitions. They know that I intend to progress and maybe try something new,” said the native Frenchman.
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