Patrick Frank

Striker - Eintracht Frankfurt U18
7 Oct 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Patrick Frank

69 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Patrick Frank out for 19 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Eintracht Frankfurt will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A falling-out at Eintracht Frankfurt

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

Squad

Words at Eintracht Frankfurt training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario Götze is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Can Uzun was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Eintracht Frankfurt refuse to lose to SC Freiburg

A point taken on 91 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.

Loan watch

Keita Kosugi counts the days

“I watch every Eintracht Frankfurt game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Borussia Dortmund runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Carlo Boukhalfa

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Honours even between Eintracht Frankfurt and SC Freiburg

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Marco Schreiber on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief

Back issues
68 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Patrick Frank breaks a bone — 29 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Eintracht Frankfurt run riot against Hamburger SV

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Rômulo scores twice — 9.12

Two goals and a mark of 9.12 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Farès Chaïbi scores twice — 8.25

Two goals and a mark of 8.25 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Bruno Fernandes yet — 7.88

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.88 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Can Uzun signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Can Uzun and Eintracht Frankfurt agree another 5 years.

Squad

Arthur Theate in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Eintracht Frankfurt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Bruno Fernandes falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

Tiago Tomás 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.

In brief

67 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

37 days out for Patrick Frank 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Eintracht Frankfurt

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

Squad

Bruno Fernandes falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Kauã Santos signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kauã Santos and Eintracht Frankfurt agree another 5 years.

Market

Eintracht Frankfurt may not be able to give Otávio what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Otávio wants continental football; whether Eintracht Frankfurt can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Arthur Theate

7.96, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Eintracht Frankfurt had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Marco Schreiber was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Eintracht Frankfurt dressing room was either.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mahmoud Dahoud

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mahmoud Dahoud, and the manager let it.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Mario Götze

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief