As Leeds United look to move on a host of Elland Road misfits, the Championship table-toppers must be wary of, as the great J.R Tolkien wrote, delving ‘too greedily and too deep’.
If reports are to be believed, Eintracht Frankfurt appear to view Leeds United’s asking price for Rasmus Kristensen as a little on the expensive side.
Then again, the Yorkshire giants will rightly argue that these were the terms Dino Toppmoller’s Frankfurt agreed too when the Denmark international moved to the Commerzbank Arena on loan last summer. If anyone is delving too deep and risking the wrath of Durin’s Bane – or Dino’s Bane, in this instance, it is Frankfurt.
The Bundesliga high-flyers rubber-stamped the £12.5 million option-to-buy clause in Kristensen’s contract, after all. That Frankfurt are now looking to barter a lower fee, one in the region of £8.5 million, well, Leeds could be forgiven for asking a club based in Germany’s financial district if they really know how the economics of football works.
Rasmus Kristensen has been ‘an absolute hit’ at Frankfurt, to quote one German publication. A near-ever-present on Dino Toppmoller’s team-sheet, the right-back’s rampaging runs down the flank are a major reason why The Eagles are soaring as high as third in the table heading towards the business end of the campaign.
Leeds United’s Rasmus Kristensen deal with Eintracht Frankfurt in ‘doubt’
The Leeds loanee provided an assist in a victory over Borussia Dortmund and then set-up Hugo Ekitike again a week later against Hoffenheim.
Under pressure to replace the goals of Omar Marmoush following his £60 million switch to Manchester City, no wonder former Paris Saint-Germain misfit Ekitike is keen to see Kristensen stay at Frankfurt.
“I love him,” Ekitike smiles, “He’s a good player. Rasmus gave me the perfect pass [against Hoffenheim] and all I had to do was push it over the line.
