The man behind the Ekitike agreement who could become the new sports director of Bayern Munich

Markus Krosche, sports director of Eintracht Frankfurt, has been at the center of some of the most impressive transfer agreements in recent years, and there is now speculation that his remarkable success could potentially win a replacement position from Max Eberl in Bayern Munich.

The majority of European clubs follow a common strategy where they try to spot and buy young talents at an early age in order to develop them in precious assets, then sell them for important profits in order to remain competitive and generate income for the club at the same time. However, what separates clubs is the way they execute this plan.

By examining the transfer profits over the past decade, no club seems to have implemented this strategy for better effect than Eintracht Francfurt. Over the past six years, they have concluded transfer agreements, notably Randall Kolo Muani, Omar Marmoush and Hugo Ekitike, who have brought them less than 363 million euros, making it one of the biggest challengers to the Bayern Munich Bayern Bayern.

At the heart of this development, you will find Markus Krosche, sports director of Frankfurt, who joined the club four years ago from RB Leipzig.

Under its leadership, the club won UEFA Europa League in 2022, qualified for the Champions League for 16 years and reached the DFB-Pokal final in 2023, and obtained third place in the Bundesliga last season, winning a return to the first European competition.

Outside the field, Krosche praised his recruitment of strategic players. His accent on data -based scouting, combined with a desire to allow players to move on when they seem ready to pass the next stage of their career, has created a succession to attract talented players who consider Frankfurt as a springboard to larger clubs.

Already before his arrival, the former German international striker Fredi Bobic had taken the first steps towards the launch of the lucrative transfer philosophy of Eintracht Frankfurt with very promising results, but Krosche pushed this development a little further.

A list of Frankfurt’s most lucrative agreements in the past eight years:

Hugo Ekitike, signed by PSG (in April 2024) for 16.5 million euros, was sold in Liverpool for 95 million euros (July 2025)

Omar Marmoush, signed in Wolfsburg (May 2023) on a free transfer, was sold to Manchester City for 75 million euros (January 2025)

Randal Kolo Muani, signed by Nantes (March 2022) on a free transfer, was sold to PSG for 85 million euros (January 2023)

Willian Pacho, signed by Royal Antwerp (January 2023) for 13.5 million euros, was sold at PSG for 40 million euros (August 2024)

Jesper Lindstrom, signed by Brondby (July 2021) for 7 million euros, was sold in Napoli for 30 million euros (August 2023)

Sebastian Haller, signed by Utrecht (January 2017) for 12 million euros, was sold to West Ham for 50 million euros (July 2019)

Luca Jovic, signed by Benfica (April 2019) for 22.5 million euros, was sold in Real Madrid for 60 million euros (June 2019)

Krosche, who founded a car rental company to develop his business sense after his active career, during his first season with Frankfurt won the Europa League with Oliver Glasner as a coach, but there was a problem looming on the horizon with a team that was among the oldest in the Bundesliga.

Today, Frankfurt has the youngest League team thanks to Krosche’s well developed strategy to identify talents at an early age. Among a squad that bursts out fascinating perspectives, Hugo Larsson, 20 years old (signed by Malmo), the 21 -year -old Tas Chaibi (from Toulouse) and the newly bought striker Jonathan Burkhardt (from Mayen) could be the next to unload some of the largest clubs in Europe for enormous profits.

Krosche previously explained to Sky Sports that part of the magic in identifying good players thanks to screening data is to work a year in advance: “We must be early on the market.

“We must be better than the others because we cannot afford errors. We must be faster and more effective. So by October, we will have a clear idea of who we want to sign next summer. It is a big advantage because other clubs are not on the market at the time.”

The German Legend of Football Lothar Matthaus, who is working today as a television expert for Sky Sports Germany, rents Krosche transactions on the transfer market.

“Markus Krosche is the king of transfer!” He said. “And even if the sale of Ekitike will weaken them at the beginning, I am impressed by the calm of the way people involved around Krosche work. They know exactly what they do. As I know, he has already worked with Jonathan Burkardt.

“Despite these many departures and the huge sums of transfer, some of which are reinvested, Francfurt always has a good profit. These are objectives and dreams that many Bundesliga clubs do not realize. Success, transfer benefits and happy spectators: what could you more?”

While Krosche worked his magic in Frankfurt, the same thing cannot certainly be said about his colleague of German giants Bayern Munich, Max Eberl. There is a saying in Germany according to which “what Bayern, Bayern” wants “, but to judge by the lack of success of Eberl on the transfer market, this saying currently has a hollow ring.

Bayern managed to attract the German international Jonathan Tah to Sabener Strasse, but during the summer, they missed names like Florian Wirtz (Liverpool), Nico Williams (Athletic Club) and Stuttgart striker Nick Woltemade, making it the most disappointing transfer windows in the decades for German champions.

This has now triggered speculation in the German media to find out if Krosche is likely to replace Eberl, which is criticized on all sides in Germany, notably from Matthaus.

“The money they have spent for contract extensions for Alphonso Davies, Jamal Musiala and Joshua Kimmich, as well as the way Eberl managed discussions around Florian Wirtz and Thomas Müller. Such errors have become common in recent years and are not good for healthy energy in the club and also for the external image, which has become Shaky,” argued.

The question is now that if Bayern, at the back of a chaotic transfer window, chooses to give Krosche a chance to stabilize the ship to Munich.