Everything is perfect with Christian Eriksen’s health – Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank has no concerns over new Brentford signing Christian Eriksen and insists “everything is perfect” with the playmaker’s health.
The Bees signed the former Tottenham midfielder on Monday to offer him a route back into football after he suffered a cardiac arrest in June.
Eriksen was fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator days after he collapsed at Euro 2020, and was unable to continue his career with Inter Milan due to rules in Italy concerning athletes fitted with the device.
But after the 26-year-old Denmark midfielder completed the relevant medical assessments he was able to sign for Brentford on the final day of the January transfer window.
“It is a little bit of a miracle of course that first and foremost he is healthy but also that he wants and feels ready to play football again,” Frank said ahead of the Bees’ trip to Everton in the FA Cup fourth-round, a match Eriksen will not be available for.
“I would say no (concerns). Of course, I am not a doctor but all the specialists who have seen him, met him and tested him know that everything is perfect. I know Christian and his family would never take the slightest risk in that sense that something could happen when he is training or playing a football match.
“For me it is down to the mental part of it and getting back into rhythm, playing football at a top, top level and managing it, which I expect will be fine.”
A first conversation between Frank and Eriksen over a potential move occurred in December, with the pair previously working together when the midfielder was coached by the Bees boss in the Denmark age-groups.
Since his near-death experience during Denmark’s match with Finland in Copenhagen this summer, the 109-capped international has