The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette
Match17 Feb 2029
Nobody wins at Eintracht Frankfurt
39 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Market19 Feb 2029
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.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Stephan Pohl breaks a bone — 15 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Feb 2029
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.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
The manager has not finished forgetting Loïc Badé's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Oleksandr Zinchenko wants out of the spotlight
The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Arthur Theate has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Eintracht Frankfurt will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Eintracht Frankfurt are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Nahuel Noll asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- The dugout Heinrich Roth on the point
- Market Arthur Theate linked with a move away
- Player ratings Off the pace: Loïc Badé