Uli Hoeneß urges Eintracht Frankfurt not to sell top players

Uli Hoeneß, honorary president of FC Bayern Munich, has urged Eintracht Frankfurt to stop selling more of its top players. "Personally, I’m not a big fan of selling good players. I always say at FC Bayern: we’re a club that buys players, not one that sells them," Hoeneß said at an event organised by the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Turning to Frankfurt’s board spokesman Axel Hellmann, he warned: "Axel Hellmann will come to realise that, in the long run, you lose substance with every sale. It’s nice to get 50 or 60 million once in a while, but what are the consequences?" No other Bundesliga club has sold as many players abroad for such high fees in recent years as Eintracht: Randal Kolo Muani to Paris Saint-Germain for €95 million in 2023, Omar Marmoush to Manchester City for €75 million in January 2025, and Hugo Ekitike to Liverpool for €95 million in the summer of 2025.

On the pitch, however, Eintracht are currently seventh in the Bundesliga and were knocked out early in both the Champions League and the DFB-Pokal.

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