Igor Matanovic won’t exit on mortgage this month searching for extra sport time, Eintracht Frankfurt board member for sport Markus Krösche has confirmed.
Matanovic has usually needed to accept a spot on the bench this season, with Hugo Ekitiké and Omar Marmoush the popular pairing of Eintracht coach Dino Toppmöller, however as Krösche factors out, Matanovic provides one thing completely different to the opposite two.
“Igor will stick with us. He has no intention of going out on mortgage. And we’re very pleased to have him as a result of he has completely different qualities to Omar Marmoush and Hugo Ekitiké. You do not usually discover his profile in Europe,” Krösche informed Kicker.
“Regardless of his dimension, he has a sure mobility and, with 34 km/h, good velocity. You want an actual quantity 9 in your squad. Whether or not you want one in each sport is debatable,” he added.
Krösche went on to match Matanovic to late-blooming strikers comparable to Sporting CP’s Viktor Gyökeres and Borussia Dortmund’s Serhou Guirassy.
“Highly effective strikers typically simply want a little bit of time. You may see that once you take a look at the event of Sporting’s Viktor Gyökeres or Serhou Guirassy,” he identified.
“One other good instance is Alexander Sørloth, who did not work out so nicely at Leipzig and is now scoring a number of targets for Atletico Madrid within the Spanish league.”