Eintracht Frankfurt is confident of being able to retrieve Kevin Trapp from Paris Saint-Germain. Meanwhile, Fredi Bobic was slightly critical of newcomer Martin Hinteregger. Goncalo Paciencia met twice on his birthday. Here you can find all news and rumours about Eintracht Frankfurt.
Eintracht Frankfurt is optimistic about the return of Kevin Trapp, according to sports director Fredi Bobic. The goalkeeper was last borrowed from Paris Saint-Germain and is now to be firmly engaged. “The last conversations were very good and I hope that it will be over soon and he will come back,” Bobic said on RTL.
Trapp switched from Frankfurt to PSG in the summer of 2015 for 9.5 million euros. Last summer he returned on loan and was an important performer in 45 missions. With a contract until 2020 in Paris he could now return, the French are probably about to transfer the possible heir Martin Dubravka.
With Trapp, Eintracht could sign Sebastian Rode (Borussia Dortmund) and Filip Kostic (Hamburger SV), last season’s third loaner, on a permanent basis. “Two out of three are back, the third is still missing,” Bobic filed.
Eintracht Frankfurt’s newcomer Martin Hinteregger has received a small rebuke from the sports board for his recent excess in the training camp of FC Augsburg. The Austrian had been supported drunk by a fellow player at a folk festival and had been filmed.
“He’s a good boy – but things like that, he has to be a little careful. Everything is recorded these days,” said Bobic on RTL. However, the manager also showed some understanding: “I was a player myself, we also had a team evening once.”
Bobic didn’t want to deny that the video had helped Hintereggers with the transfers, but he didn’t approve of it either. Either way, FCA had already been ready to talk before the video appeared: “We didn’t provoke anything. With Augsburg, we have found a solution where everyone saves face.”
Goncalo Paciencia has shot Eintracht Frankfurt with his double pack against Flora Tallinn into the next round of qualifying for the Europa League. “Every time I play on my birthday, I meet. That’s one more. That’s my job: to run and hit,” said the goal scorer in the mixed zone.
The game of harmony was “not perfect”, but that would be perfectly normal given the early timing of the season: “We still have work to do. But the most important thing is that we’re in the next round.”
Coach Adi Hütter saw it similarly: “We are happy that we have made progress. It was obvious that not everything was always easy.” In the next round, Eintracht will meet Vaduz (8/15 August): “Of course I know them, because in the first two years they played in the first Swiss league when I worked in Switzerland.”
