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Conflict between ex-international and Eintracht Frankfurt: The lost honor of Amin Younes

2021-09-08T16:09:04.188Z


In March he was a German national player and a crowd favorite. Now Amin Younes and Eintracht Frankfurt split up in a dispute. It is said to have broken because of salary claims. But is that also true?


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Amin Younes in the Eintracht jersey.

That will no longer exist in the future

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About three weeks ago, Amin Younes sensed that the world he called his "harbor" not so long ago, his new home, that this world would soon no longer exist for him.

The Eintracht Frankfurt offensive player goes shopping in a Frankfurt supermarket.

Somebody spoke to him angrily: “Fuck off, you money vulture!

We got you out of the heap. "

This is how people from Youne's environment tell it.

But that's just the beginning.

Younes suddenly received hate reports on social networks.

People who accuse the 28-year-old of betraying their club write to him.

"Shit mercenaries, you'd better piss off and let yourself be seen more in Frankfurt." Also racist hostility are among the comments: "Dude, what a fucked up Muslim are you, ashamed."

It's the severe side effects of a dispute between a player who was one of his club's crowd-pleasers last season and his club, which has changed a lot this summer.

It's about salary demands, supposedly broken promises.

And it's about how careers in the football business can get massively listed within a very short period of time.

Because the dispute has now escalated.

On Wednesday, Eintracht announced that the players and the club were separating.

After a clarification meeting on Tuesday, negotiations will be held to terminate the contract.

Younes is now without a club.

His reputation is battered.

How could it come to this?

Amin Younes was once a national player.

At the Confed Cup 2017 he was in the German squad and won the title together with the team of the then national coach Joachim Löw.

In 2018 he moved from Ajax Amsterdam to SSC Napoli, a top club in Italy, earned four million euros gross.

But he mostly just sat there on the bench.

In the summer of 2020, Eintracht Frankfurt loaned him out for two years.

It should be a mutually beneficial business.

Younes was now allowed to play again - and he initially helped Frankfurt to soar.

In February 2021, Eintracht beat the German record champions Bayern Munich 2-1.

Younes scored the winning goal with a solo run and a shot in the corner, a goal that his coach Adi Hütter later called "world class".

When Younes held up a piece of clothing with the name of a victim of the attack in Hanau in the sky while celebrating the goal, he was celebrated by many Frankfurt fans.

"I think I'm currently in the best shape of my career," said Younes afterwards in a Sky interview.

Löw even nominated him again for the national team in March.

He was used in two World Cup qualifiers.

Everything looked as if Frankfurt was a success story for both sides.

"I have found my port," said Younes in May in an interview with the FAZ about Eintracht.

A new home.

And that's where he wants to stay.

Four months later there is nothing left of it.

First, Eintracht Younes did not report for the games in the Europa League.

Now the contract will probably be terminated.

Critical articles about the offensive player

"Eintracht throws Younes out," wrote the "Bild-Zeitung" on Wednesday and named "stubborn salary demands" as one reason for the separation.

It is the reading of the conflict that is common in many media around the club.

Younes reportedly called for an excessive raise in the summer.

The new sports director of Eintracht, Markus Krösche, is said to have rejected it.

Younes is said to have pushed for a move: to the Saudi club Al Shabab.

But after the transfer broke up, Younes wanted to attack again near Frankfurt.

But the relationship is said to have been too shattered.

Critical articles about the offensive player have been published since the end of the transfer window on Tuesday a week ago, when it was clear that Younes would not leave the club this summer. In a "touch of overconfidence", the "kicker" wrote that he had demanded a "significant increase in salary." The Hessischer Rundfunk claimed in its online edition on Friday that Younes was suddenly no longer available for the club and was in Turkey. Sky reported that Youne's behavior within the team should have "met with little approval" recently. On Wednesday, the "Bild" wrote that "uncontrolled outbursts of anger" had annoyed the colleagues. In addition, Younes recently missed training four times despite being asked to do so.

From the players' side, it said to the SPIEGEL: Younes was not in Turkey, but in Düsseldorf and available for the club at any time.

He also stayed away from training three times during the international break because the club had promised him a break after the trouble about the failed move.

In addition, Younes had married a week ago on Sunday and should have time for private matters.

The "Bild-Zeitung" reported on it itself.

Younes is said to have waived more than half of his salary

Another fact remained unmentioned in the entire reporting: that Younes waived more than half of his salary for the change to Eintracht.

While he had earned around four million euros gross in Naples, it was less than 1.5 million euros gross in Frankfurt.

From the player's environment it can be heard that Younes was promised a significant salary increase after one season by the old club leadership of Eintracht.

Orally only and with the premise that the year will be successful in terms of sport, but Younes would have made considerably more money.

Krösche, however, is said to have offered Younes a raise in salary of 200,000 euros.

This was followed by the break, which now ends in the termination of the contract.

Younes is now without a club for the time being.

His contract with SSC Napoli will run until 2023, but not again until the summer of 2022. Until then, Younes was loaned to Frankfurt.

How it will go on for him is open.

Younes himself does not want to comment at the moment.

Eintracht Frankfurt left questions from SPIEGEL on the matter unanswered.

The club has said little about Younes in public.

Unlike in the case of Filip Kostic, who wanted to force his departure to Lazio Rome with a training strike, Eintracht did not try to get back together with Younes. "Filip deserves a chance and we will open the door for him," said Frankfurt coach Oliver Glasner on Thursday in the "kicker". He didn't say a word about Amin Younes.

Source: spiegel

All sports articles on 2021-09-08

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