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Marked for Otávio

75 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets3 Jan 2028

Eintracht Frankfurt make their move for Iliman N'Diaye

$38.6M on the table at Mainz 05. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Match29 Dec 2027

Eintracht Frankfurt through in the cup

A 1‑0 win over Fortuna Düsseldorf, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Market3 Jan 2028

Oleksandr Zinchenko asks to leave Eintracht Frankfurt

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market3 Jan 2028

Eintracht Frankfurt say no — this time

The offer from Bayern Munich for Jonathan Burkardt was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets3 Jan 2028

Eintracht Frankfurt make their move for Yannik Keitel

$3.1M on the table at VfB Stuttgart. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Match1 Jan 2028

Eintracht Frankfurt make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Player ratings3 Jan 2028

Up for the corner, and Otávio delivers — 7.42

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Otávio scored, was marked 7.42, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market3 Jan 2028

Arthur Theate wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Eintracht Frankfurt hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market3 Jan 2028

Can Uzun wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

In brief

Back issues
57 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market30 Aug 2027

Oleksandr Zinchenko puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Eintracht Frankfurt, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets30 Aug 2027

Eintracht Frankfurt baulk at the price for Antonio Nusa

RB Leipzig wanted more than $25.1M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market30 Aug 2027

Eintracht Braunschweig come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Eintracht Frankfurt did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

The dugout30 Aug 2027

Otávio says Eintracht Frankfurt went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Eintracht Frankfurt

Jonathan Burkardt was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom30 Aug 2027

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Eintracht Frankfurt

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Transfer targets30 Aug 2027

Eintracht Frankfurt rebuffed over Elias Bethke

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Union Berlin have kept their man, and Eintracht Frankfurt go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market30 Aug 2027

Eintracht Frankfurt promote Lukas Schwarz from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lukas Schwarz has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market30 Aug 2027

One of our own: Helmut Herrmann joins the Eintracht Frankfurt first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Helmut Herrmann is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

42 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 May 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oleksandr Zinchenko

108 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Eintracht Frankfurt lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad17 May 2027

53 days out for Mario Götze after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Eintracht Frankfurt will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match12 May 2027

The small margins put Eintracht Frankfurt out

Out, 0‑3 to Bayern Munich, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

The dugout17 May 2027

Can Uzun: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Eintracht Frankfurt have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match17 May 2027

The season ends: position 9 for Eintracht Frankfurt

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 46 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

The terraces17 May 2027

Eintracht Frankfurt are taken apart by Bayern Munich — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Player ratings17 May 2027

No sign of nerves from Malik Pimpong at 19 — 7.78

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Malik Pimpong did not need any: 7.78, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market17 May 2027

Robin Koch wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Loan watch17 May 2027

Elye Wahi keeps scoring at OGC Nice

31 appearances away from home and 14 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief

13 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Mahmoud Dahoud keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Eintracht Frankfurt may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match24 Oct 2026

5 matches without a win for Eintracht Frankfurt

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Eintracht Frankfurt are no longer polite ones.

Squad26 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Eintracht Frankfurt

Lilian Brassier and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match24 Oct 2026

A bad afternoon for Eintracht Frankfurt against Borussia Mönchengladbach

0‑1 to Borussia Mönchengladbach, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Eintracht Frankfurt count the cost of losing Otávio

14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Heinrich Roth to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

A promise honoured at Eintracht Frankfurt

Something was said to Ansgar Knauff and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Jonathan Burkardt leaves them behind him

Shots: 13. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Market26 Oct 2026

The Can Uzun question follows Eintracht Frankfurt around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Can Uzun’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

9 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Both of them Arnaud Kalimuendo's — 8.32

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad28 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Eintracht Frankfurt

Oleksandr Zinchenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Noah Atubolu gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Eintracht Frankfurt count the cost of losing Otávio

47 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match26 Sep 2026

Eintracht Frankfurt refuse to lose to St. Pauli

A point taken on 92 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Market28 Sep 2026

Kauã Santos has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Eintracht Frankfurt can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Match26 Sep 2026

Eintracht Frankfurt share the spoils with St. Pauli

A 2‑2 draw with St. Pauli leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Mahmoud Dahoud

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Heinrich Roth was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Eintracht Frankfurt dressing room was either.

In brief