Rafael Santos Borré: Eintracht sign Silva’s successor

Oliver Glasner made no big secret about André Silva’s successor even before 4 p.m. on Monday. “I hope that we can report completion in the next few hours, maybe days,” said the new Eintracht coach just before the start of the second week of training this season. The Austrian might not be the one to pronounce the name, but indirectly confirmed that the new striker is Colombian Rafael Santos Borré.

And an hour later, the official confirmation came: The 25-year-old Colombian, who will face Argentina in the semi-finals of the Copa America on Wednesday with his national team, joins Eintracht. The contract runs for four years. Borrè is on a free transfer, his contract with River Plate Buenos Aires expired on July 1. “He’s the player who brings the speed and depth that we want to have reinforced,” said Glasner.

In the next sentence, the 46-year-old football teacher made it clear that the 1.74-meter-tall attacker could not be “the” but “a” successor to Silva. “Nowhere does it work that a 28-goal striker is replaced by a new 28-goal striker. We don’t want to put a sign on any striker that we have to score 28 goals. ”Rather, he and the team are called upon to find solutions so that the burden of scoring goals is distributed across different shoulders.

Dejan Joveljic is back too

Glasner wants the greatest possible flexibility. “Flexibility increases the likelihood of success,” said the Austrian in his first conversation with the FAZ. The possibility of reviving a stalled game through system and / or personnel changes is very important to him. In relation to the storm game, this means: “We need strikers who can utilize Kostic’s outstanding crosses, and we need strikers who can benefit from the passports of an Amin Younes or Daichi Kamada.”

Since Borré is only 1.74 meters tall, the question immediately arose whether Eintracht would sign a massive, large header specialist. “Let’s see,” said Glasner for a clear answer. “It’s the beginning of July and the transfer window ends at the end of August. But we already have a penalty area striker in Goncalo Paciencia. ”The returnee from Schalke 04 gets just as much a chance at the Austrian to play in the team as Dejan Joveljic. “He brought the business card for 17 goals with him from Wolfsberg,” says Glasner. Ragnar Ache has also impressed him with his commitment in training so far.