Brentford manager Thomas Frank hinted at the club s potential interest in signing Christian Eriksen as he bids to make a return to top-level football, and even the rumours have the Danish coach pinching himself.
Eriksen has not played since suffering a cardiac arrest during Denmark s Euro 2020 opener against Finland in June last year, an emergency that meant he had died for five minutes .
He was subsequently fitted with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) – while the device could potentially save his life should something similar happen in future, it effectively ended his time at Inter due to Italian football regulations prohibiting professionals from having such implants.
However, ICD are permitted in other European leagues, and the mutual contract termination between Inter and Eriksen last month means the player is free to seek a contract elsewhere.
Former club Tottenham, with whom he spent six and a half years, had been mooted as a potential destination, but reports on Monday claimed Brentford had offered him a six-month deal with the option for another year.
Frank, who coached Eriksen in the Danish youth setup, was initially coy on the rumours, saying: I can tell you that Christian is a really good player. Everyone knows that. I worked with him in the past.
He needs to find a club. I love to speak about players that are in house and go running around training pitch. I don t think I should discuss that. I m not discussing that too much.
I really hope he comes back to top football and plays football again. He spoke to Danish TV about playing at the World Cup and I hope he does succeed for all football, and for Danish fans. He s our biggest star from the Euros, we want the best for him and his family.
He soon opened up a little more, seemingly confirming Brentford s interest in both Eriksen and Bologna s Scottish left-back Aaron Hickey before also making reference to a joke made about potentially signing Kylian Mbappe in a recent interview.
