Stephan Pohl

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Eintracht Frankfurt U18
11 May 2029
Friday
Process

Marked for Stephan Pohl

134 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

19 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

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.

The dugout

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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

Back issues
133 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Eintracht Frankfurt bow out of the cup

RB Leipzig go through and Eintracht Frankfurt go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad

A fracture rules Stephan Pohl out for 25 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.

Market

Justin Njinmah says no to SV Elversberg

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Justin Njinmah had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

Eintracht Frankfurt turn down VfL Wolfsburg for Ragnar Ache

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Loïc Badé wants more than Eintracht Frankfurt are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Words exchanged at Eintracht Frankfurt

Loïc Badé and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Luca Schuler deal

Eintracht Frankfurt ran out of time with Borussia Mönchengladbach. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

The dugout

Lilian Brassier frozen out at Eintracht Frankfurt

This is not rotation. Lilian Brassier has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Eintracht Frankfurt is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Jan Koutný arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Jan Koutný has, at Eintracht Frankfurt, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

In brief

132 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The run at home goes on for Eintracht Frankfurt

38 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Market

Eintracht Frankfurt get their man

The chase for Lewis Miley ended with $32.1M changing hands and Bayern Munich out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market

Yoan Bonny 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.

Match

13 unbeaten for Eintracht Frankfurt

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Eintracht Frankfurt did not have in the autumn.

Squad

A fracture rules Stephan Pohl out for 33 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.

Market

Eintracht Frankfurt get their man

The chase for Konstantinos Karetsas ended with $9.3M changing hands and Werder Bremen out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Luca Schuler

Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Mönchengladbach have settled on $1.7M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market

Otávio turns Köln down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Squad

Lewis Miley arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Lewis Miley has, at Eintracht Frankfurt, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

In brief

131 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Lewis Miley due for a Eintracht Frankfurt medical

Everything agreed with Bayern Munich, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Stephan Pohl breaks a bone — 40 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Whatever happens, Eintracht Frankfurt do not lose

12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Player ratings

Yoan Bonny scores twice — 8.63

Two goals and a mark of 8.63 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Lilian Brassier hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Eintracht Frankfurt can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Eintracht Frankfurt get their man

The chase for Elie N'Tamon ended with $3.5M changing hands and Heidenheim out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market

Alexander Bah attracts admirers

The name of Alexander Bah has come up in conversations Eintracht Frankfurt were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Boardroom

Eintracht Frankfurt go back to the board over Lewis Miley

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $39.6M — a club that wants Lewis Miley enough to be asked twice.

Squad

A move Elie N'Tamon would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Elie N'Tamon is living that version at Eintracht Frankfurt, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief