Eight expiring contracts
Eight contracts – including loans – expire at the end of the season at Frankfurter Eintracht, in the following summer other top performers could leave the club free of charge. Markus Krösche, who has been the Hessian Sports Director since this season, said in an interview with the “table football‘ in detail on medium- and long-term squad planning.
“We’ll see how big the upheaval will be,” said the 41-year-old, looking ahead to the coming summer. When asked about the personal details of Evan Ndicka, Filip Kostic and Daichi Kamada, whose contracts expire in 2023, the ex-sports director of RB Leipzig stated that it is “normal when a team is successful and the players show good performances that larger clubs are interested express and also a player at some point says to himself: Okay, I want a different challenge.
The club will sit down with the players in the summer and then see if there are any extensions or “another solution”. Krösche is “relatively relaxed” in this regard. Eintracht’s strategy must be “to define early on which skills we need for our football in the individual positions. (…) But of course we have to be able to react and are also prepared if another club wants to poach a player at short notice for a high transfer fee,” said Krösche.
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Such a goal of other clubs could become top performer Kostic again after the end of the season (to date 10 goals in 18 games of the season). The 29-year-old, who switched from Hamburger SV to Main in 2019 for €6 million, is regularly associated with European clubs. Krösche describes the possibility of a contract extension and even a possible end of the Serb’s career at Eintracht as “completely open” at the moment.
However, the company is “in good talks” with the 38-year-old veteran Makoto Hasebe, whose working paper expires in the summer. If an extension still fails, the club will “not bring a player explicitly for this position”, since coach Oliver Glasner has variable alternatives available with Tuta and Martin Hinteregger, among others.
When asked about the personal details of Randal Kolo Muani, Faride Alidou and Hrvoje Smolcic, Krösche said he did not want to “comment on or confirm” them. In general, however, the goal is to complete the squad for the 2022/23 season at an early stage. “It is important for the coach not to have a piecemeal at the beginning of preparation, but a squad that is as complete as possible. To do this, we have to act early in order to have these prerequisites.”
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Regarding the possible Eintracht future of attacker Jens Petter Hauge, who was on loan from AC Milan until the end of the season, and the rumored purchase obligation of 7.5 million euros, Krösche said: “I am convinced that he will develop in a similar way to Jesper Lindström . Jens Petter is flexible in attack, very good in one-on-ones and scoring goals. We are happy with him. I know that’s not a small amount of money, but it’s about his potential.”
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