Ebbsfleet United manager Dennis Kutrieb agrees new two-year deal until 2024

Ebbsfleet boss Dennis Kutrieb has agreed to stay at the club for two more seasons.

The 42-year-old German initially joined the club in the summer of 2020 from Tennis Borussia Berlin.

His current deal was due to expire at the end of this campaign but he's enjoying his time in England and wants another crack at National League South after being agonisingly close to promotion last week.

“I am extremely pleased and proud to continue the work we started here," Kutrieb told the club website. "We will definitely be prepared to go again next season but obviously, like all our fans, I am so gutted that it is not to be in the National League.

"From our experiences of the season just gone, we know what we have to do. And we will stay tight together as one club - as I always ask of the supporters, you are as much a part of that as anyone.

"Staying strong together is so important to me and to our club because we cannot always influence what happens outside but what we do as a club is down to all of us.

“Coming over from Germany two years ago to work in England was something that drove me. It was not an easy decision at the time to make the move but two years on I know I have made the right decision and so I am of course very happy to stay with Ebbsfleet.

"I love working for this football club and with the people who make the club what it is - all the staff, players and of course our supporters who I know will be back again and behind us all the way in 2022/23.”

Ebbsfleet chief executive Damian Irvine said: "Dennis’s impact on our club, from the moment he began work, has been huge. We had a very clear picture of what the club needed in a manager when we began our identification and recruitment process in 2020 and had high demands and