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Want to change clubs: Filip Kostić
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Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt wants to keep his left winger Filip Kostić, who is willing to emigrate - even though he refused to train before the game against Arminia Bielefeld. “Basically, we plan with Filip that he will be a very important part of our team. The path he has now taken is wrong, «said Frankfurt's sports director Markus Krösche on the Saturday before the game of Eintracht in Bielefeld on the TV channel Sky. Kostić had not been appointed to the squad by coach Oliver Glasner.
"We won't let ourselves be put under pressure," said Krösche.
“That's not the way to go when you've had such a good time together.” Kostić had only come to Frankfurt for a year on loan from Hamburger SV in the summer of 2018, then Eintracht had the left foot under contract for a rumored six million euros transfer fee taken.
As a key player on the flank, Kostić played 129 competitive games for Eintracht, with the Serbian international scoring 26 goals and 48 assists.
Lazio with interest
For weeks there has been speculation about a change of the 28-year-old, according to media reports, Lazio Rome is said to have made a specific offer.
However, Krösche did not want to comment on the amount of the offer in the Sky interview.
"There's no price tag," he said.
Instead, Kostić should be given a second chance at the club.
"Sometimes people make mistakes," said Krösche.
»Filip is a really good boy who has also done a lot for Frankfurt.
I don't know what moved him to do it that way and act that way.
But it's the wrong way. «Without Kostić, Eintracht also missed their first win in the third Bundesliga game of the season and did not get more than 1-1 in Bielefeld.
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