Sturm Graz coach reacts to Kelvin Yeboah’s departure

Christian Ilzer, the coach of SK Sturm Graz, was a guest on the Sky podcast “DAB I Der Audiobeweis” on Monday. There, the 44-year-old discussed the departure of striker Kelvin Yeboah.

The Italian U21 national player switched from Graz to CFC Genoa in Serie A at the beginning of January. The striker thus became Graz’s new record departure. As a result of the Yeboah sale, a little less than five million euros should actually end up in the Styrian coffers for the time being.

“It’s part of the job. Of course I would have liked to have kept him, but of course I’m also thinking of the player. It also took him a while to really get going with us. He was outstanding in the first phase of this season and then had a real kink in late autumn,”

“I believe that his game would have revealed many more facets that you would have seen in the spring and that he would have gotten a completely different market. I told him that too, but it went in one ear and out the other when the offer came from FC Genoa. I then also felt that he made a mental decision very quickly for this position,”