Eintracht Frankfurt have assured Omar Marmoush he will be allowed to join Manchester City or anyone else interested in him this month.
That’s according to BILD, who report that everyone is waiting for a breakthrough in the current transfer poker.
They explain that Marmoush’s potential move to Manchester City had dominated daily events at Frankfurt for over a week.
Marmoush has already agreed a deal with Manchester City and is waiting for a transfer agreement between the clubs. However, that deal has not yet been struck.
In the meantime, Marmoush remains in constant contact with Eintracht Frankfurt. Club officials recently assured their striker in discussion that they won’t block a move. In fact, they made it clear they wouldn’t block it for the sake of ‘a few millions’.
They want to enable him to make the big step up he wants. This has long been their stance, telling him in the summer that bigger clubs than Fulham and Nottingham Forest would come for him. Now Manchester City have done so, and everyone believes his time at Frankfurt is over.
The German side refuse to be pushovers though. They are insisting on a fee over €80m. Because of that, Frankfurt rejected Manchester City’s offer of just under €70m in base transfer fees.
All parties are ‘firmly assuming’ that the deal will go through next week at the latest. That’s more of a necessity or it risks becoming stagnated.
Eintracht are expecting Manchester City to present an improved offer before the clash with Borussia Dortmund on Friday. An improvement to bonuses would get City closer to the fee Frankfurt want.
The will to do that deal is there for Eintracht and they want to keep their promise to Marmoush. This is something they’re making clear to the forward. But they’ll only do that for the right price and Manchester City are yet to offer it.
