These days Eintracht Frankfurt has once again significantly strengthened the offensive department. It’s an old friend, a goalscorer from the past, someone who should help the club from now on. The club announced that the former Bundesliga top scorer and ex-captain Alexander Meier will work as assistant coach of the Frankfurt U19s for the Hessen team.
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At the same time, the club also brought strikers Luka Jovic back.
Eintracht Frankfurt is, so to speak, the expert when it comes to return campaigns, the club has had very good experiences with it, with Kevin Trapp and Sebastian Rode two returnees are among the team’s top performers. That cannot be taken for granted, elsewhere such actions, which always have a dangerous dose of nostalgia, have gone wrong.
A special coup
However, Jovic’s personality is a special coup. Manager Fredi Bobic, who has already developed a certain talent with unusual, one could also say creative contract structures to win players for Eintracht, managed to persuade the young Serbian to return on loan after one and a half fruitless years at Real Madrid. In his first game, the 23-year-old scored two goals after his substitution against Schalke.
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Head coach Adi Hütter and his homecomer Luka Jovic
Photo: Arne Dedert / dpa
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For the team and their coach Adi Hütter, Jovic’s access has once again significantly enriched the options on the offensive, so far the team had to rely on the accuracy of striker Andre Silva. Although there was actually little to complain about in this regard.
As a sole entertainer, Silva is a guarantee this season: twelve goals in 16 first round games and thus as many as in the entire previous season. In Eintracht’s long Bundesliga history, there were only two players who scored even better at this point in the season. Ten years ago it was the Greek Theofanis Gekas, who had 14 goals on the 16th matchday. In the 2014/2015 season, the goalgetter with 13 goals was, of course, Alexander Meier.
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“André is a top professional,” Bobic told SPIEGEL. “He is technically incredibly strong and has a very good degree,”
Silva, 25 years old, has already had a few years of apprenticeship and traveling. He was worth 38 million euros to AC Milan in 2017 when the club signed him from FC Porto. At that time, Silva was ennobled by Cristiano Ronaldo, who touted him as one of his successors in the Portuguese team, he should not necessarily have reduced the transfer fee.
In cold blood from the penalty spot
In Milan he was nevertheless or perhaps not because of it happy, the pressure of expectation on the player was enormous, the Milan squad was unbalanced during this time. Silva remained pale in his appearances in Serie A and was loaned to Sevilla FC after just one year. It is precisely such candidates in such situations that Bobic begins to take a closer look. Because Eintracht cannot pay large transfer fees, he first developed a loan model for Silva: And a player who is actually too coveted and too good for Eintracht Frankfurt got into the Bundesliga in this way.
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“Maybe he can handle clear scoring chances even better and thus become even more effective. But we’re talking about a very high level here. “
Trainer Adi Hütter on Adnré Silva
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