With Oliver Glasner, Frankfurter Eintracht made an obvious choice.
The 46-year-old from Salzburg was traded as his successor the moment coach Adi Hütter announced his move to Mönchengladbach.
Glasner was successful at VfL Wolfsburg, but unhappy.
He played football there similar to the one practiced by Eintracht, and went about his work with style and seriousness, although the situation was not easy for him.
He had a hearty dislike for sports director Jörg Schmadtke, the hearts of the players hadn't flown to him either. But Glasner earned respect for his competent, calm work and led VfL into the Champions League for the third time in its history. It was noticeable how he kept the team on track, although his broken relationship with Schmadtke had become public, and his impending separation from Lower Saxony was discussed again and again. Glasner did not allow himself to be enticed, when asked to commit to VfL, he only replied: "How Hütter?"
With Glasner, Eintracht gets an uncomfortable trainer, one who is primarily committed to his own convictions and his own conscience, one who can be stubborn to stubborn, but does not become hurtful or insulting. Eintracht does not get a human catcher behind which a team, a club, an entire region can rally. But even Hütter was not a tribune of the people and has led Eintracht to a soaring flight that almost twice was crowned by a summit storm (Europa League title in 2019 and Champions League entry in 2021).
No one can predict whether the Glasner / Eintracht relationship will be a happy one. But the likelihood that it will not be an unfortunate one is relatively high in view of the character and the Vita Glasner. Perhaps this comparatively low risk led to the decision in his favor. Because to sign a very exciting coach with wild views or without Bundesliga experience in this summer of upheaval in Frankfurt would have been a little too much uncertainty.