Is Sebastian Rode threatened with the end of his career?

At Eintracht Frankfurt one is apparently worried about the future of Captain Sebastian Rode. As the image reports, one is concerned with the thought that the 31-year-old has to end his career in the summer.

The reason is therefore the persistent knee problems of the central midfielder. Rode has already had to undergo five operations in his career – the last time in the summer.

Then Rode was out until mid-October, since then he has only made four short assignments, after which he was repeatedly forced to take breaks from training due to the persistent problems. The agony against Greuther Fürth paid off, Rode scored 1-0 against the newly promoted team, the SGE won 2-1 at the end of a turbulent final phase.

“Seppl is an extremely important player for us. He has enormous quality and, above all, a lot of calm on the ball,” said Eintracht sports director Markus Krösche image firmly: “We hope that he can gradually increase the load to help us.”

Due to Rode’s susceptibility to injury, Eintracht brought another central midfielder in Kristijan Jakic on loan from Dinamo Zagreb in the summer. Before that, the Frankfurters should follow image-Information was also interested in the then BVB professional Thomas Delaney. However, the Dane moved to Sevilla FC.

Rode returned to Eintracht in January 2019 after almost five years at FC Bayern and BVB and was instrumental in the SGE’s strong performance in the Europa League and the Bundesliga. After he initially only played on loan in Frankfurt, Eintracht signed him for around four million euros in the summer of 2019. His contract runs until 2024.