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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - Sports director Fredi Bobic will leave the Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt prematurely in the summer.
«I don't need to fool around.
A year ago, before Corona, I already expressed the wish to leave the club in summer 2020, ”said Bobic on Tuesday in the ARD program“ Sportschau Thema ”and spoke of a“ personal decision ”.
Because of the Corona crisis, he stayed a year longer, "also for moral reasons," as he put it.
Eintracht reacted with irritation.
The chairman of the supervisory board, Philip Holzer, confirmed discussions - but not that a decision had already been made.
"We have agreed to hold appropriate talks about a whereabouts or an early change and to maintain absolute silence in the sense of the sporting success of Eintracht," said Holzer according to a club announcement.
"The talks have not yet been concluded and will not be continued until after the next Supervisory Board meeting in mid-March."
The contract of the former national player with Hessen actually ran until 2023. According to media reports, Frankfurt's league rival Hertha BSC is being traded as a possible new club for the former striker.
"I don't want to go into this topic any more," said Bobic.
There are "unfortunately too many indiscretions" in public.
His contact person is the supervisory board at Eintracht Frankfurt, said the former national player.
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Holzer said about the process that Bobic approached him three weeks ago and informed him of his considerations to leave the club early.
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.
"The fact that there is now a bit of turbulence and that there is a lot in the newspaper is unfortunately the case, but it is not due to the fact that I have not told anyone," emphasized Bobic in the ARD.
Reports of an impending farewell to Bobic in the summer had increased in the past few days.
On Monday, Sky reported on 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.
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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