Eintracht Frankfurt have delivered a transfer blow to the likes of Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, with the club’s chief financial officer telling Hessenchau the Bundesliga outfit don’t need to sell anyone this summer.
When the Eagles tumbled out of the Champions League nest, their wings clipped by a late-season collapse, the assumption was a talented crop of players would be broken up once more.
Two years after Sebastien Haller, Ante Rebic and Luka Jovic all waved goodbye to the Commerzbank Arena, tearing apart one of Europe’s most formidable front lines, Frankfurt face plenty of interest in their star players once again.
Tottenham have expressed an interest in intuitive assist-machine Daichi Kamada – a Japanese international who shot to fame with a brace against Arsenal in 2019 – as well as versatile defender Evan N’Dicka (BILD).
29-goal top scorer Andre Silva is, unsurprisingly, a man in demand too.
In March, Calciomercato reported Arsenal see the prolific Portugal international as a long-term replacement for Alexandre Lacazette at the Emirates.
But while Frankfurt may have missed out on Champions League football in heartbreaking fashion – a run of two wins in their final six games proving decisive – the Germans will be no pushovers in the transfer market.
“Silva is definitely one of the hottest strikers in the European market. (But) we don’t have to sell a player,” Oliver Frankenbach insists.
The chief financial officer does add, however, that clubs across the continent are still coming to terms with the effects of the pandemic, admitting player sales may be a necessary evil if things get desperate.
Hope, then, remains for Tottenham, Arsenal and co.
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