From now on things can go very quickly.

Since Sunday, interested clubs have been formally allowed to contact Eintracht and officially announce their intention to sign Daichi Kamada from July 1st this year.

Although the Frankfurters have sufficiently expressed their desire to extend the expiring contract with the Japanese (and to improve salaries), they can no longer prevent other clubs from taking action to lure the free midfield genius with power.

Marc Heinrich

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The fact that the regulations will be relaxed half a year before the end of the current cooperation is stipulated in the transfer regulations of the world football association FIFA - and it will not be long before sporting director Markus Krösche is approached by interested parties who would like to see Kamada in their jersey and that's why waving banknotes in front of his adviser.

On Wednesday, the Hessian entourage left for Dubai without Kamada, who had traveled directly from his home country.

By the end of next week, the Bundesliga fourth in the Arabian Gulf will be preparing for the second half of the season, for which, according to Krösche, everyone has vowed to at least defend what they have achieved so far in the league and also to set further exclamation marks in the cup and Champions League.

"time of adulation" over

The ambitions to continue the upswing have not diminished during the winter break, which was unusually long due to the World Cup, as can be heard from the words of Krösche, who said the "time of adulation" that recently sweetened the life of the Europa League winner for declared "over".

All eyes were directed “forward” and everyone had to roll up their sleeves again for the “Team of the Year”.

They have now also landed in Dubai for this, at the express request of coach Oliver Glasner.

Some in the club, especially from the marketing department, would have liked to go to North America again, especially in view of the Texas-based main sponsor Indeed and the recently decided cooperation with the NFL team the Carolina Panthers would have offered PR opportunities, but the coach's arguments

The Frankfurt team will set up their base camp in the Nad Al Sheba Sports Complex, a spacious area where there are a number of opportunities, both indoors and outdoors, to lay the physical foundations so that the opponents can continue to meet a Frankfurt team that is in in terms of physique and operational strength is beyond any doubt.

Usually, training camps far from home, where there are fewer distractions to disrupt concentration, offer the welcome opportunity to discuss matters in private, for which there is not always enough space to be found in other everyday commitments.

So Kamada will also have one or two conversations in which everyone who has something to say at Eintracht once again expresses their great appreciation for him - combined with the request

It's no secret that Borussia Dortmund in particular is courting the Asian.

With a probability bordering on certainty, BVB will lose its young star Jude Bellingham to a competitor from the Premier League in the summer - and after everything that has to do with statements by sports director Sebastian Kehl from discussions about the situation of the wannabe- Meisters went public, Kamada is considered the preferred candidate for the succession plan.