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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - Sports director Fredi Bobic will leave the Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt prematurely in the summer according to a report by the ARD “Sportschau”.
The 49-year-old confirmed this on the “Sportschau Thema” program, wrote the ARD.
The contract of the former national player with Hessen actually ran until 2023, an official confirmation of the club was not initially available.
According to media reports, Frankfurt's league rival Hertha BSC is being traded as a possible new club of the former striker.
Bobic has been working for Eintracht since 2016 and has celebrated great successes with the Frankfurters.
In 2018, the Hessians won the DFB Cup in the final against FC Bayern, in 2019 the Bundesliga team was in the semi-finals of the Europa League.
Sports director Bruno Hübner will also be leaving the club in the summer.
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Reports of an impending farewell to Bobic in the summer had increased in the past few days.
The day before, Sky had reported about negotiations to terminate the contract.
Bobic himself had initially not commented on it.
The 49-year-old was repeatedly traded as a possible successor to Michael Preetz, who was dismissed as managing director at Hertha in January.
A spokesman for Eintracht had initially referred to a statement by the Eintracht supervisory board chairman Philip Holzer - and who in turn on the radio station FFH on the contract dated until 2023 and on "discussions about the future direction of the so far very successful cooperation".
Before his time in Frankfurt, Bobic had worked at the Bulgarian club Tschernomoretz Burgas and at VfB Stuttgart as a sports director.
In Frankfurt he demonstrated his flair for once affordable players and talents such as Ante Rebic, Sébastien Haller and Luka Jovic, with whom Eintracht caused a sensation and achieved a three-digit million euro amount on sale.
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