Direct qualification for international business via the Bundesliga is a long way off for Eintracht Frankfurt after the 3-1 defeat against Hoffenheim and ten games in a row without a win. While the reigning Europa League winner slipped down to ninth place in the league, there is still hope of a DFB Cup win against RB Leipzig in early June – it could be the last game for coach Oliver Glasner in the service of Hessen. A report of the “PictureAccording to the newspaper, there should be a future-oriented conversation between the Austrian and sports director Markus Krösche in the course of the week. An amicable separation in the summer is conceivable, Eintracht already have a possible successor in their sights.
Update 3:12 p.m.: As the “Bild” reports on Monday afternoon, the 48-year-old should leave Hesse by 2024 at the latest this summer, despite his contract. The only question at the moment is whether Eintracht and Glasner will separate before the cup final on June 3 in Berlin or only after the end of the season. The club declined to comment on the report when asked.
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Board spokesman Axel Hellmann had criticized Glasner’s behavior after the defeat in Hoffenheim in clear words. “What I absolutely cannot understand is that you take this disappointment out on a journalist who is doing his job.” It was “neither good nor right” to react like that.
Hellmann was referring to the press conference at which the 48-year-old verbally attacked a journalist. “We have to deal with the question of whether we are in a form that is forward-looking,” Hellmann also indicates doubts about working with the coach beyond the summer. His contract runs until 2024, Glasner had been repeatedly associated with a premature departure in recent months, but had always denied reports in this direction. Hellmann emphasized that the club had long since made an offer for an extension.
Glasner’s angry speech after the TSG game
Eintracht Frankfurt: Toppmöller targeted as Glasner’s successor
Accordingly, the SGE is also working on possible successors who could bring a breath of fresh air to the currently fifth most valuable squad in the league from the summer. According to the newspaper, one of them has a name that at least older Eintracht fans are familiar with: Dino Toppmöller, most recently assistant coach to Julian Nagelsmann at FC Bayern and RB Leipzig and son of former SGE coach Klaus Toppmöller.
Trainer performance data from Klaus Toppmöller
The latter had taken over the Adlerträger in the 1993/94 season as the successor to Dragoslav Stepanovic and Horst Heese and, with a furious start with only two defeats from the first 15 games in the Main metropolis, raised hopes that after two third places in a row finally the win the long-awaited championship title. After falling out of the UEFA Cup quarter-finals and two bankruptcies against VfB Leipzig and Bayern, Toppmöller senior had to retire in April 1994 after 39 games and with an average of 1.56 points. Record player Karl-Heinz “Charly” Körbel took over, Eintracht finished fifth.
Trainer performance data from Dino Toppmöller
Now Dino Toppmöller could continue the family history on the Main, the newspaper reports. The 42-year-old, who won the Luxembourg championship three times and won the cup twice with F91 Dudelingen between 2016 and 2019, was recently linked to the Belgian champions and Champions League round of 16 club Bruges after leaving FC Bayern in March . In the 2002/2003 season, Toppmöller had already kicked as a player for Eintracht and managed to get promoted back to the Bundesliga with the previously relegated Hessen team.
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