Omar Marmous has become the other in front of the superstar of Egypt. No Bundesliga player, not even Harry Kane, worried more objectives than the type of Eintracht Frankfurt. Now Manchester City has taken him to the Premier League.
With almost 26 years, this has been a dramatic increase. Recently as 2022, Marmoush suffers in Stuttgart, lent by the Wolfsburg parent club at that time. His fortune took a step forward in Frankfurt, a club that has become the market.
Going the sports director of Frankfurt, Markus Krosche, before this season, was as positive as ever the perspective that the club loses its biggest stars. “Selling players is a component of my work. I’m not excited on this topic. This is a business,” he told Sky Sports.
“Verify that you think about the player. They need titles. They need to play in the Premier League or in the Champions League. This is a general process. There will be a point for the player to develop faster than the club and then we let it go.
“That is what I tell all players. If your progression is faster than our progression as a club, and I get the cash I hope, I will let you go. That is why so many young talents love to come to Frankfurt because we know what we know What we want to do to expand them. “
But, even according to Frankfurt’s main criteria, Marmoush’s example is extreme. Signed in a loose movement of Wolfsburg in the summer of 2023, he remodeled in one of the most productive players in the Bundesliga, a complete attacker to compete with the most productive in Europe.
This past year in Wolfsburg he generated five goals in the Bundesliga. He had never reached double figures for a league crusade until he embarked on Frankfurt’s debut. But that tally of 12 goals in his rookie season has already been eclipsed halfway through his second. is 13.
While this is a testomony of Frankfurt’s ability to identify talent, it is not that Marmoush’s rise was completely unexpected. Michael Wimmer is a coach who worked largely with the player of his loan spell in Stuttgart in the 2021/22 season.
“I am not surprised by all this because I convinced that Omar had great potential,” Wimmer told Sky Sports. “It is already transparent that he had a wonderful long run of him. He knew precisely what he was looking for and had the determination and the state of the brain to achieve it. “
Wimmer remembers Marmoush’s remarkable appetite for improvement, but not necessarily affectionately. After training, he would insist on staying outside the doors to paint in his finish. “It doesn’t matter the weather conditions. Omar didn’t care if I got soaked or soaked!”
This determination of details mattered. Marmoush’s last game for Stuttgart was for the club. They needed to win to remain in the Bundesliga and persecuted a past case opposed to Colonia. Marmoush arrived from the bench for the assistance to get there.
“It’s 92 minute and Omar took the last corner of the game under maximum pressure,” recalls Wimmer. He ignited. “Right in Wataru’s head [endo]. Our position was secured in the Bundesliga. ” Stuttgart is now in the Champions League.
Marmoush’s progress has been every bit as startling and Wimmer is magnanimous enough to credit Dino Toppmoller, the Frankfurt coach, for bringing out the best in the player. “The way that Frankfurt play football is good for Omar. It fits him perfectly.”
But the component of what makes Marmoush such a horny proposal is that he is not only able to run in the team in a variety of other roles, but that he has the ability to prosper the concept of the coach and any game scenario .
“When Omar came to see us, he without delay accepted because everyone knew that he can only and that he will help us. He is someone who adapts temporarily and that makes him adapt to many clubs because he is also very flexible and adapts to many styles of game.
“For example, he can play an opponent with a weak block because he has the technical ability to solve conditions once and the ability to locate answers in tight spaces. Thanks to his game, he is a smart mixing player.
“But all clubs that play intense and attacking football suit Omar because he also has his qualities in transitional play, where he can then utilise the speed of his movement to the goal and his dynamic play. That is when these particular skills come into their own.
“And if a team occasionally looks for the spaces between the two to create virtual overloads in the middle spaces, then it’s also much better for them, because they have the orientation skills to turn at the right time and conditions with their dynamism and creativity.
His flexibility is probably one thing that put him horny for Manchester City, in particular. Its dependence on Erling Haaland has been such that each game for the club in the Premier League and the Champions League this season has started.
As a result, resorting to a striker outside the gates is of limited appeal because the threat would be that such a player would be denied playing time. What is needed is someone who has the perspective to surpass Haaland if necessary, but also to play in the same team as him.
That the role Julian Alvarez played for two seasons before moving to Atletico Madrid in the summer. Magoush can do it too. ” In my opinion, Omar is very flexible and I think he can play in almost any attacking position,” says Wimmer.
“He has an enormous drive to score and he is very determined. He is very good one against one, very intelligent and makes the right decisions. He is very dynamic and fast as well as being technically outstanding. He looks mature and confident in all he does.”
Wimmer views Marmoush as “the perfect attacking half-space player or hanging striker, playing behind a target man” but caveats that by stressing it is two-and-a-half years now since he worked with him on a daily basis. “A lot happens to players in that time.”
In the case of Marmoush, that is particularly true. His evolution as a goalscorer is partly because Frankfurt have used him more centrally than before. Watching from afar, Wimmer has also detected other developments in his game, taking him to another level.
“For me, it has also taken a step forward fundamentally its defensive paints so that it also looks good for the team that opposes the ball now,” he explains. “They have a player who also brings great attack and intensity to their pressing appreciation for their dynamism. “
His ascent has been so impressive that Wimmer considers that a mid -season movement is bittersweet. Frankfurt is flying in the Bundesliga. Marmush is just a kane purpose on score lists. You no longer have any help. The story does not seem complete.
“I believe that Eintracht can and will achieve a lot this season. I am really pleased with the path he has taken and will continue to go down on. That is why I personally would very much like to see him continue in Frankfurt or in the Bundesliga in general.”
Expect Krosche, a guy with more words to say in this area, to have a pragmatic view. Frankfurt made an ordinary profit on some other firm that helped him become an ordinary player. Man City hopes to be the beneficiaries now.