Eintracht had just lived through a turbulent season. Their autumn championship of 1993 had collapsed into a bad spring. There had been a quarterfinal exit to Salzburg in the UEFA Cup, the dismissal of coach Klaus Toppmöller and captain Uli Stein, and Uwe Bein’s departure to Japan. What the club wanted now was not another year of FC Hollywood on the Main. Heynckes, they hoped, would bring calm.