Mario Götze, world champion of 2014, is considered the king transfer at Eintracht Frankfurt in this transfer period.

But Randal Kolo Muani has now become the focus of interest: 23 years old, 1.87 meters tall, versatile attacking player and Bundesliga newcomer.

Coming from FC Nantes, with whom he won the cup when he left.

The Frenchman had scored twelve times in 36 league games in the previous season.

George Daniels

Editor in the sports department

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After his first change of job abroad, four competitive games were enough for Eintracht and Kolo Muani has been raised to the rank of an upcoming Bundesliga attraction nationwide thanks to his remarkable style of play.

The striker could "go through the roof," says Hertha managing director Fredi Bobic.

The man he highly praised had auditioned with the Hessians in a 1-1 draw last Saturday in Berlin's Olympic Stadium.

A lot of things seem to happen quickly at Kolo Muani.

With a speed of 33.8 kilometers per hour, he had the nimblest legs on the pitch of all Eintracht professionals in Berlin.

And anyone who believed that the newcomer would need time to adapt to the first division game is wrong: Kolo Muani has literally taken giant strides to the challenge in Germany.

With his self-confident and impulsive demeanor, he gives the opposing defenses a bad feeling.

You must never take your eyes off him.

Kolo Muani rushes across the lawn at breathtaking speed, he has what it takes to overrun his opponent with his sprints into the depths.

Kolo Muani is a movement talent.

He also has good technique and fine ball handling;

the Frenchman can't take the ball away that quickly.

And he toils, fights and runs fearlessly at his opponents.

Trapp is "very impressed"

With his long legs, Kolo Muani fished the ball off Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer's foot and scored in the opening game to make it 1:5.

All this makes him, who set up Daichi Kamada's equalizer in Berlin, a particularly unpleasant and unpredictable professional with an unorthodox playing style for the opponent.

The tabloid media gave him the term "monster".

The Frenchman teaches the other clubs to fear.

On the other hand, Kolo Muani conveys a feeling of strength and superiority to his teammates as a tireless driver and opposing troublemaker.

Frankfurt national goalkeeper Kevin Trapp is "very impressed" by Kolo Muani's skills: "Randal has a lot of speed, is very strong in one-on-one combat and keeps coming back to balls that were thought lost." Among the many newcomers, Kolo Muani is currently the only one who is completely convincing.

Which gives Eintracht hope for a big transfer coup.

He can best absorb the power and momentum that Frankfurt lost when Filip Kostic left Juventus.

Free transfer Kolo Muani, whose contract expires on July 1, 2027, has firmly established himself in the squad.

The fact that he can be used in several positions up front makes him even more valuable for coach Oliver Glasner.

The encounter in Berlin showed that he and his Argentinian strike partner Lucas Alario harmonize with each other.

The interaction of the French with the Colombian Rafael Borré is also conceivable.

Kolo Muani is not fixated on personal goalscoring.

When a team-mate is in a better position, they have no problem playing the ball further.

Assists also give him satisfaction.

Kolo Muani, who grew up in Villepinte, a town in the Paris suburbs, would have liked to have signed the Hessians earlier.

However, the transfer fee requested by Nantes was too high for them.

Despite offers from other clubs, the Frenchman kept his word and in March signed a contract with Eintracht, where Almamy Touré appears to be out for several weeks with a muscle injury and is likely to be replaced by an experienced new signing.

That suits Kolo Muani's character, as he describes himself as loyal.

The Eintracht managers got to know him as a modest, affable person and ambitious athlete.

His development into a successful football player is unusual: although his talent was seen early, the youth centers of AS Saint-Etienne and the French FA academy in Clairefontaine rejected him.

Kolo Muani only joined the youth academy in Nantes at the age of 16.

He was already in the first division squad in the 2016/2017 season before making his debut in the top division in November 2018.

Now the French miss him.

They consider him the best attacker from their own youth department in recent decades.

Eintracht does not contradict this.

Within a few weeks, Kolo Muani has become the big ray of hope for the Champions League participants.

He has outstripped Mario Götze for the time being.