WAs luck would have it, the performance took place almost at the same time. Fredi Bobic, Hertha’s new sporting director, gave his first press conference in Berlin, and Eintracht’s new sporting director, Markus Krösche, held his first press conference in Frankfurt. Performances that were only necessary because Bobic no longer wanted to fulfill his contract, which tied him to Eintracht until 2023, despite great success in Frankfurt. A wonderful opportunity to study the two characters who have taken responsibility for the sporting development of their new clubs. Eintracht, so much can be said right away, is now led by a manager who does not openly flaunt his ego, who sees himself as a team player, who tries to have a good relationship with everyone and meet expectations.
Can he continue Bobic’s successes on the Main, which the native Swabian (with Slovenian-Croatian roots) achieved in his less conciliatory way? Bobic sees himself more as an alpha animal, as a superior with interpretative sovereignty, blessed with a certain intransigence and irreconcilability when something threatens to get in his way. At the service, Bobic could not help repeating the story that Eintracht had been informed since February that he would be leaving the club. A representation that the Frankfurters always contradicted, but which they did not go into yesterday. “We had two very emotional farewells to him, we are grateful to Fredi Bobic for his great work, that’s all.” Philip Holzer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Eintracht AG, left it at that and decided not to step down with another kick reply.
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Holzer seemed almost relaxed compared to the past few weeks when he presented Bobic’s successor yesterday, chatting anecdotes like the one that Krösche almost came to Eintracht as a player in 2002, but Tony Woodcock was against it in the end. Or the fact that the young manager had a promotion to the Bundesliga written into his contract as sports director of the third division club SC Paderborn. Which he finally managed with a budget of just over four million euros. “It quadrupled the value of the squad,” stated Holzer with praise.
Krösche doesn’t have to succeed with Eintracht. “We expect Krösche to achieve sporting successes commensurate with the size of the sporting budget. And every now and then we are allowed to overperform. ”According to his research, Holzer sees Eintracht in seventh to eighth place in the Bundesliga hierarchy. Therefore Krösche is not required, which also did not succeed under Bobic: Entry into the Champions League: “This requires sports budgets of 100 million plus.”
The new sports director is not afraid of the pressure to perform. “Eintracht has developed excellently over the past few years, and I would like to continue that. I’m not afraid of falling. ”His ideas about football largely coincide with those of the Eintracht leadership. The team should act attractively, aggressively, actively and also be unpredictable. “We want to set off fireworks for the fans in every game. If that succeeds, we will win a lot of games, we will see what that is enough for. “
Krösche sees professional football holistically, in the triad of the youth center, scouting, and Bundesliga squad. “I want my own boys to be more permeable to the Bundesliga team.” His first task, however, is to put together the squad for the coming season. “I don’t want a radical change, but as little change as possible, because we already have a really good squad.” It is to be expected that there will be lucrative offers for Silva, Kostic, Kamada and Ndicka. “But we will do everything we can to convince them to continue on the path with Eintracht Frankfurt.” Krösche says that he sees opportunities that even goal scorer Silva will stay on the Main: “He knows what he has in Eintracht, a team that helps him score a lot of goals. ”Basically, he wants a squad with a healthy mix of young, capable and experienced players. The focus is more on young and capable of development. “Because we have to create market value,” postulates the sports director.
Krösche also announced that Danny da Costa would return from Mainz 05, the new sporting leadership relies on the right wing player, who was loaned to Rheinhessen. “Danny showed in Mainz that he can help us to achieve our goals.” Otherwise, Eintracht is looking for a sprinter in the storm. “We still lack a man with speed, which makes us even more unpredictable.”
The tasks for the new sports director are many, he claims to be looking forward to all of them. But above all, he is looking forward to the European Cup nights. “I followed Eintracht and was impressed by their Europa League games on TV. The club has a great charisma. “
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