Overview
- Jonathan Burkardt has started the season in top form for Eintracht Frankfurt, recording five goals and three assists across four matches and contributing a goal and an assist in the 3-1 win over former club Mainz.
- Reports say Jürgen Klopp watched Burkardt's latest performance in person, a factor that has intensified talk of a national-team recall.
- Klopp set out a 57-player longlist at his arrival and will reveal his first Germany squad on September 17, which will determine whether Burkardt moves from longlist to call-up.
- Selection is far from certain because established forwards such as Deniz Undav and Kai Havertz and emerging players including Nicolo Tresoldi, Dzenan Pejcinovic and Nick Woltemade are also in contention.
- Burkardt said he would welcome a call and vowed not to celebrate against Mainz, while former teammate Robin Zentner expressed frustration at conceding to him, underlining the personal stakes behind a possible return to the national team.