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The team should stay together

Dhe situation is the same as in summer. The Frankfurt Eintracht is showered with praise from their own fans and even from many competitors. The preparations are progressing without complications, there is peace, joy and a willingness to work in the squad. You can still clearly remember where the high spirits led to at the start of the season. The belief in their own greatness ended against Bayern Munich with a crash landing that took a few weeks to digest. However, the chances are very good that Eintracht will not succumb to high spirits for the second time, but will approach the first task of the new year with a sense of reality.

Bottom-bottom Schalke 04 may have only picked up nine points in their first 15 games of the season, but that doesn’t mean that their opponents have to be kicked out of the stadium on January 21 and that a half-time score less than 3-0 would be unacceptable. This requirement would only lead to knee-jerk reactions if it is not fulfilled, as with the 1: 6 at the start when Bayern dared to take the lead.

Coach Oliver Glasner is immune to overconfidence and self-importance, the insatiable ambition of the Austrian does not allow such thoughts. But not every one of his professionals has his character. However, Glasner’s attitude rubbed off heavily on his players in the year and a half he worked in Frankfurt. You believe almost everything he says at the moment, because where he has led the team proves him right with every action he takes and every one of his guidelines and requirements. And so little Glasners run across the field, ambitious, meticulous, willing to perform, highly motivated.

The overall sporting situation of Eintracht appears flawless. The only drawback: Nothing in professional football lasts. An upstart quickly loses the supporting forces of his rise, at Eintracht Kolo Muani, Trapp, Kamada, Ndicka, Sow, Lindstrom, Borré have attracted the attention of the industry. “The market makes the laws,” Glasner said on Sunday at the training camp in Dubai. You can not express it any better. And you can’t deal with the laws better than Eintracht: don’t let them drive you crazy and do everything to ensure that the team stays together as long as it’s possible.

In the current case, that means not selling any of the strong players during the winter break in order to reap what Glasner and the club management have sown in the second half of the season. We’ll see what changes summer will bring. But there is no reason to be afraid of the future. Eintracht has recently made too many right decisions for that.

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