After two seasons, the collaboration between Eintracht Frankfurt and trainer Oliver Glasner comes to an end. The Austrian plays a final with his team for the second time at the beginning of June, but is at odds with the club management after a difference of opinion. Frankfurt feels unable to meet the demands of Glasner, who is demanding eight-figure purchases to ensure Champions League football every year.
Glasner managed to seize the Europa League with Frankfurt last season after beating Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s Rangers in the final. He will play his next final on June 3, when RB Leipzig is the opponent in the final battle for the DFB Pokal. Despite this, neither party has a long marriage. Despite a contract that continues for another year, it will already come to a break this summer, you know BILD.
Frankfurt expects Glasner to train young players in order to resell them for good amounts, while the Austrian sometimes assumes millions in purchases. This leads to great frustrations on both sides. The boulevard newspaper mentioned above writes that Frankfurt will hang the grapes significantly lower again in the future. Reaching the Champions League will no longer be a goal. Qualification for the Europa League must be achieved every two years.
Despite the disagreement, Frankfurt has decided to end the season together. It is feared that the decision of the club management will be accompanied by angry reactions from the fans. Glasner is in good shape with the supporters and, despite a worse phase, has always been able to count on complete confidence. He is also expected to be supported in the home game against 1. FSV Mainz 05 this coming weekend, despite his suspension.
Blood in urine
Glasner went crazy at the press conference last weekend after the 3-1 defeat against TSG Hoffenheim. After the 48-year-old coach received a red card in the stoppage time of the first half, he expressed his frustration to a journalist afterwards. The man in question asked if Glasner’s players were going to the extreme. “Stop this nonsense, I know what my boys are doing,” Glasner said. “And I also accept that Hoffenheim can win.”
“Stop saying that the players don’t understand, that they don’t show dedication and character. I’m going to tell you something: Makoto Hasebe is 39 years old and this week plays 90 minutes for the third time in a season in which we already have 43 official matches “Sometimes he has blood in his urine because he is broken. And what does he do? He just plays. We are in a final for the second season in a row. The players go through fire for each other.” The privacy-sensitive information about Hasebe went down the wrong way at Frankfurt. “That doesn’t belong in the media,” said the club.