Van de Beek left off Frankfurt’s UECL roster whereas Philipp Max returns

Eintracht Frankfurt formally unveiled their eligible roster for the upcoming UEFA Europa Convention League two-legged playoff in opposition to Royale Union Saint-Gilloise on Monday night. 

As had been reported by Germany’s “Sport Bild” yesterday, new Manchester United signing Donny van de Beek is not going to be among the many gamers eligible for choice by Eintracht Frankfurt head-coach Dino Toppmöller on this month’s two-legged UEL Knockout spherical match-up in opposition to Union St. Gilloise. The three areas reserved for brand spanking new gamers not nominated for the competitors this autumn belong to new winter striker signings Sasa Kalajdzic and Hugo Ekitiké.

After being dropped from the UEL roster this autumn, left-back Philipp Max has regained his spot again. Max continues to must combat for minutes in Topppmöller’s league XI, having misplaced his beginning place to the surging Niels Nkounkou final December. The previous German nationwide staff consultant (thrice-capped) appears to be like to get one other shot as a starter this coming weekend after Nkounkou was ejected from final weekend’s league loss and might be suspended.

Frankfurt had loads of area out there on their UEL roster after Markus Krösche, Timo Hardung, and the remainder of the SGE administrative staff minimize a powerful sic gamers off the membership’s “dead-weight” ledger by way of 5 loans (Kristijan Jakic, Jens Petter Hauge, Paxten Aaronson, Marcel Wenig, and Jessic Ngankam) and one sale (Lucas Alario). UEFA rules however allow solely three new registrations and there have been already loads of choices at van de Beek’s place.

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Eintracht Frankfurt nominiert drei neue Spieler für die Ok.-o.-Section der @europacnfleague: Hugo Ekitiké, Sasa Kalajdzic und Philipp Max 🇪🇺🦅#SGE #SGEuropahttps://t.co/vMjKVUmnpG

— Eintracht Frankfurt (@Eintracht) February 5, 2024

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