The incredible fortune harvested by the Eintracht Frankfurt by selling its attackers!

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By: Nicolas Gerbault

Third from Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt will compete in the next Champions League and has asserted itself as a major German football club in recent years. Winning in particular the Europa 2022 League, the Aigles were able to assert themselves in the spotlight and have always managed to put their attackers in the best possible measures. It is true that the offensive game set up by Eintracht Frankfurt over the past few years with ambitious coaches like Niko Kovac, Adolf Hütter, Oliver Glasner and Dino Toppmöller helped. However, the choices were also precious.

Recruiting Sébastien Haller in Utrecht for 12 million euros and Luka Jovic on loan from Benfica (recruited for € 22.3M in 2019), in the summer of 2017, Frankfurt managed to highlight them, especially during the 2018/2019 season. In an exercise where Frankfurt will notably reach the semi-final of the Europa League, the first will record 20 goals and deliver 12 assists in 41 matches when the second will have marked 27 achievements and offered 7 offerings in 48 games. Sébastien Haller will report 50 million euros by leaving for West Ham when Luka Jovic will allow Frankfurt to obtain 63 million euros with his departure from Real Madrid. The start of a machine that continued to speak.

€ 401 million out of 6 attackers

To replace the two men, Frankfurt bet on André Silva (AC Milan), Bas Dost (Sporting CP) and Dojan Jvelcic (Belgrade Red Star) for only 14 million euros. And if the last two will not report much to Frankfurt, André Silva will revive perfectly. Staying two years, the Portuguese will leave for 23 million euros at the RB Leipzig after 45 goals and 15 assists in 71 matches with the eagles. His replacement Rafael Borré arrived free from River Plate will not be a big financial success, even if he arrived free and left for € 6.5 million, or even sporty despite its importance in the coronation during the Europa 2022 league, but it will have made it possible to maintain a sports balance before the next big free blow.

Arrived free from FC Nantes in the summer of 2022, Randal Kolo Muani will break everything in a year. Directly essential, he will score 26 goals and will deliver 17 assists in 50 games. An immediate impact that will push Paris Saint-Germain spent 95 million euros to win its services. The following season, Frankfurt will freely attract Omar Marmoush from Wolfsburg and Hugo Ekitike will land from Paris Saint-Germain on a paid loan of € 3.5 million before being recruited in the summer of 2024 for € 31.5 million. Sportingly, the two men will also be essential and will bring big. Last winter, Omar Marmoush brought back 75 million euros with its sale to Manchester City when Hugo Ekitike has just brought in 95 million euros with its sale this summer in Liverpool. Six players, 301 million euros recovered, the balance sheet is optimal for Frankfurt.

A man behind this success

If he did not participate in the first three big files, Markus Krösche is behind Randal Kolo Muani record sales, Omar Marmoush and Hugo Ekitike. Nicknamed Bild,, Krösche, the king of moneythe 44 -year -old leader is one of the references to his post. And yet his journey and surprising. Trained at Werder Bremen and playing 356 matches with Paderborn as a defensive midfielder, he will study the automobile, business management and obtain his coach license after his career. Deputy to Paderborn and Leverkusen, he will embark on the sports direction thereafter. A role in which he excels and makes everyone agree. German writer Micky Beisenherz said: D “The other major clubs need Saudi investors for their several million dollars funding. Eintracht just needs Krösche». Office of 26 million euros on Elye Wahi (Olympique de Marseille) this winter and 21 million euros on Jonathan Burkardt (Mainz) this summer, Markus Krösche will once again try to make the exceptional work that he performs with his recruitment cell. Frankfurt is already rubbing hands.