OMG — Oh My God

The Eintracht — sometimes "Zwietracht Zankfurt" ("Discord Quarreltown"), but often also a genuine Frankfurt thriller. Sometimes with, sometimes without a "shadow man," as in Dieter Wedel's 1995 TV series of the same name. In the leading roles: an alleged car fence, a vice-president who financially ruined his own players, a Hungarian record transfer who never justified his fee, and a national team player arrested after a TV show.

"Gottschalk Late Night" with Gaudino: No, Maurizio Gaudino's time at Eintracht was no success story — more of a crime story made in Bembeltown! Signed from VfB Stuttgart in 1992, the German international was arrested immediately after appearing on the RTL talk show Gottschalk Late Night in December 1994. The charge: suspected insurance fraud.

Fired — but "Scheppe" won't open up! Heavily indebted despite selling superstar Lajos Detari, who left after just one season (33 Bundesliga matches, 11 goals), coach Karl-Heinz Feldkamp was sacked on September 13, 1988. He had refused to sign a player he hadn't scouted first. Five days later, Feldkamp's successor arrived — inheriting a club in turmoil.

The Detari millions, or "It's all just borrowed": The Hungarian Lajos Detari had won Eintracht Frankfurt the 1988 DFB-Pokal with a free-kick goal against VfL Bochum. In mid-July 1988, the playmaker announced his departure — and transferred to Olympiakos Piraeus for the equivalent of eight million euros, ten days before the season started! The money vanished into the club's debts as quickly as it had arrived.

31. Übrigens: Es gibt auch Frankfurter Kreise, die behaupten, dass die SGE nicht ganz leer beim Detari-Transfer ausgegangen sei.↩