Much ado about nothing?

Now the person concerned has also spoken up and spoken plainly.

Kevin Trapp as a temporary replacement for Manuel Neuer at Bayern?

Most recently, the name of the Eintracht goalkeeper was brought into play for the injured Munich keeper.

But there is nothing wrong with this number.

Ralph Weitbrecht

sports editor.

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"When something like that comes up, it's obviously a nice sign and a confirmation of my performance," said the Frankfurt goalkeeper at the training camp in Dubai.

"But my side certainly didn't fake it.

We don't need that, but Markus has already made that clear," said Trapp to the words of the Eintracht sports director Krösche.

"That was not an issue," said Trapp unequivocally on Thursday.

“Of course I read it, it was impossible not to read it.

But I didn't bother with it.

The only thing that was hot was the sun on holiday.”

It's not hot in Dubai these days, but it's comfortable.

Best climatic conditions for coach Oliver Glasner's team to work on the basics for the continuation of the season that has been so successful so far in the practice camp on the Arabian Gulf.

Fourth in the table, the Eintracht entourage traveled to the tourist metropolis of Dubai.

When the Bundesliga season ends on May 27 with the home game against SC Freiburg, Eintracht still wants to be there.

This is the wish of the team and one of their spokesmen, goalkeeper Kevin Trapp.

“We played a very solid first half of the season.

We have a very high quality and a very good team spirit," said the 32-year-old goalkeeper in a media round.

“If we continue to get the maximum out of it, we don't have to hide from anyone.

It is one of the places that means qualifying for the Champions League.

This season, Eintracht, which was fined a total of 146,000 euros by the sports court of the German Football Association on Thursday in six cases for "unsportsmanlike conduct" in the DFB Cup and in the Bundesliga, has made the leap into the Bundesliga for the first time made the premier class.

The upcoming round of 16 with the two games against SSC Napoli should not be the end of Eintracht's ambitions.

Trapp is optimistic that this time the team will not experience a relapse like in previous years.

"I'm quite sure it will be a different start," he said in Dubai.

"We won't experience what we experienced in the past few years after the winter break.

We want to defend fourth place.”

The Saarland native draws confidence from the structure of a grown team, “which is a lot of fun.

We now have even more speed forward.” Trapp mentioned Randal Kolo Muani, second in the French World Championship, by name.

“We have gained quality with him.” Trapp is also impressed by Mario Götze.

“Mario is incredibly sure of the ball.

He finds gaps and puts others in the limelight.” This can also be seen and felt every day in Dubai.

"These are very intense days here with a high workload," said Trapp, who particularly likes "that we have no injuries.

That speaks for itself."

Above all, it speaks for the physical condition of the football professionals who know a medical department with all its advantages around them.

The training management, for which Coach Glasner and his two assistants Michael Angerschmid and Ronald Brunmayr are primarily responsible, is also designed in such a way that Eintracht can be able to maintain its current level.

Stick to the keyword: Kevin Trapp and Eintracht Frankfurt have been a partnership that has grown over many years.

The two parties first found each other eleven years ago.

Trapp left the Red Devils of 1. FC Kaiserslautern and joined Eintracht from 2012 to 2015.

When he then decided to cross the border and signed the Frenchman from Paris Saint-Germain until 2019, this did not mean that he did not care about harmony.

On the contrary.

In 2018 there was a one-year loan deal;

then it became a firm bond with Eintracht again.

"Everyone knows how comfortable I feel here in Frankfurt and at Eintracht," said Trapp on Thursday in Dubai.

"The club is on the right track."

Trapp apparently also when it comes to extending his contract, which runs until mid-2024.

“We are in talks and have a good relationship.

Neither Eintracht nor I are saying: We have to, have to, have to," emphasized Trapp.

"I came from Kaiserslautern and came back from Paris." Back to harmony.

Back to the club where Trapp is indispensable.

"If everything fits to continue playing successfully and having fun, then I see no reason why the common path should not continue."