Eintracht Frankfurt bows around Jobe Bellingham and thus sets a sign in many directions. It is open whether the deal will work. The Hessen obviously let the muscles play in this transfer summer.
The football summer break always has something of an agent thriller. Photographers and so-called transfer market experts lie in wait at the airports of this country to catch possible new additions when entering the potential new home for the first time. On social media, photos and videos of mostly very dark vans are circulating with very dark windows and very valuable content.
This is what happened in Frankfurt on Monday. Jobe Bellingham, reporting the picture and Sky equally enthusiastically, was invited by Eintracht Frankfurt for a first on-site visit. Team manager Christoph Preuss picked up the 19-year-old at the terminal, after which there was an exclusive Eintracht crash course. Office, stadium, cabin, city, in between and again and again: intensive exchange with sports director Markus Krösche. Show goals and possibilities, convince the player from Frankfurter Weg. This is how it works in the transfer phase.
Big name, great future?
Eintracht’s efforts for the midfielder are obvious. The goal is clear: Jobe, Jobe, the little brother of real star Jude, who is very reluctantly referred to as the little brother of real star Jude, is to wear the Frankfurt jersey in the coming season and expand the squad of coach Dino Toppmöller by a famous name. A real Bellingham in Frankfurt sounds like great football.
Now, of course, it should not be forgotten that the younger of the Bellinghams has so far “only” played in the second English league and is still at the beginning of his career. The U21 international England has just climbed into the Premier League with the AFC Sunderland after the first professional experience at his youth club Birmingham, in 40 season games he scored four goals and prepared three more. Would the hype be that big with another family trunk tree?
Bellingham could also take the Frankfurter Weg
In any case, it is clear that Jobe, who is always “Jobe” and not “Bellingham” on his jersey as a sign of delimitation, is currently one of the hottest iron on the transfer market despite his manageable sporty vita. The market value is somewhere between 20 and 30 million euros, the interested parties are in line. RB Leipzig, Borussia Dortmund are considered possible new clubs, FC Bayern should also belong to the list of applicants. And Eintracht Frankfurt.
“Young players see that they can develop with us, get playing time and play internationally. They know that we have the courage to have young players played,” squad planner Krösche only said the Frankfurt advantages last week. Eintracht has made a name for itself as a springboard, aspiring talents like to make a stop in Frankfurt on their desired path to the top of the world. The mutual plans really do not always work, but Win-win situations have often been a pipe crepe in recent years.
One is already champion, the other still wants to be: Jobe and Jew Bellingham.
Eintracht vs. BVB
What is new this year, however: Eintracht lets the muscles play early on and also merges outside the square with the big ones. It is a coincidence that BVB of all people currently seems to be the largest competitor in the race to Bellingham. However, it is often taken with them that the Hesse also sparks the Westphalia in between during the player acquisition and, in addition to Bellingham, Jonathan Burkardt and Ritsu Doan.
The verbal poison arrows have flew from Dortmund towards Frankfurt in the past few weeks, now Eintracht could repel. The Bellingham deal would be a statement, Eintracht is serious.
The squad is also stronger in width
And Bellingham would also be a finger for the Frankfurt squad. At the end of the season, sports director Krösche reacted almost amused that Eintracht is repeatedly associated with central midfielder. It is noteworthy that now anything but weakly occupied machine room could be improved.
Sure: The hungry Hugo Larsson could still go, but now the Eintracht was planning with Bellingham as an additional option next to the Sweden as well as Ellyes Skhiri and Oscar Höjlund. There was no quality and quantity in this form in this form. Eintracht positions itself for the Champions League.
Bellingham just the beginning?
Whether the deal really works will have to be shown despite the very optimistic emotional situation of the Frankfurt responsible. A meeting and an elaborate program for explaining the Frankfurt advantages are far from the signature. At Tom Bishop, the Hesse stood out similarly, squad planner Krösche reported intensive discussions in January. Later the designated new international went to FC Bayern.
The harmony, this is already clear, will not hide on the transfer market this summer. Bellingham could actually come, more prominent names follow.
