Adi Hütter prefers to keep goalkeeper Kevin Trapp. “I called him,” said the head coach of Eintracht on Wednesday at the first press conference after the four-week vacation. The conversation was not planned, but it was necessary. Hütter assured his leading player that he would remain “number one” in Eintracht’s goal. When the Bundesliga professionals left for vacation at the end of June, there was no reason for the 50-year-old Austrian to use words to strengthen Trapp’s back and calm him down.
But then the former supervisory board chairman Wolfgang Steubing declared the goalkeeper during the summer break to be a potential Frankfurt sales candidate for economic reasons. That was “not hidden from him. But that was never an issue for me, ”said Hütter. You only have to talk about it if “a top offer or an oversupply for Kevin would come in that would be suitable for everyone involved. But Kevin will certainly not switch to Hertha BSC Berlin ”. The Berliners, it was said, were interested in the national goalkeeper.
Hütter, who asked a total of 28 players for the first training session after the break in the World Cup arena on Wednesday, wants to clarify the topic of trapp as soon as possible. A week before the Europa League round of 16 second leg (6 August) in Basel, he cannot use any unrest, where his players have to make up 0-3 from the first leg in March.
However, Hütter will probably pursue a topic on his own behalf a little further: his early contract extension. He feels “basically very comfortable in Frankfurt. But that doesn’t mean that it’s a matter of form. A few things would have to be “clarified”. His advisor is in talks with sports director Bruno Hübner.
“And my advisor will come to Frankfurt in the coming week. Then there will be further talks, ”announced the trainer. His contract with Eintracht runs until July 1, 2021. In Basel, Hütter wants to “make the impossible possible” with his players. In order to be represented internationally again in the coming season, Eintracht would have to win the Europa League.
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