An RB coach hopes for restraint

A spontaneous meeting with Jurgen Klopp RB Leipzig’s coach had to Marco Rose after the league win against Werder Bremen. “I have a few friends there. Tomorrow I’ll meet Kloppo,” said Rose on Sunday after the 4-2 defeat that Klopp surprisingly watched in the stadium. The meeting with the Red Bull Group’s new Head of Global Soccer will therefore only take place on Monday, probably at the RB training ground. “At least that’s where I am,” said Rose.

Klopp made the decision to attend the Bremen game very spontaneously. The Leipzig players, including Austria’s Footballer of the Year Christoph Baumgartner, who scored his first league goal of the season at the end, only found out about the distinguished visitor after the final whistle. “I think he saw a nice game,” said the German international David Raum. “I’m glad he’s here. We’ll see what his influence is.”

Klopp was already in Salzburg for photos

Klopp took up his new position at the beginning of the year. On Saturday, the former Liverpool coach and Red Bull’s technical director Mario Gomez watched the 1-0 victory of the French second division club Paris FC, in which the group holds shares, against Amiens in the stadium. A day later, the duo sat in the VIP stand next to Marcel Schäfer, the club’s sports director, in Leipzig.

Am Klopp will be in Salzburg on Tuesday officially presented in his new function. At the side of Red Bull managing director Oliver Mintzlaff The 57-year-old German answered questions from more than 200 media representatives in Hangar 7. Klopp is responsible for the clubs in Leipzig, Salzburg, New York, Brazil and Japan. The drinks company also holds minority shares in Paris FC and Leeds United.

Coach wants restraint

Meanwhile, Rose hopes for himself and his coaching colleagues in the Red Bull cosmos that Klopp does not act as a kind of shadow coach. “It would be important if we can do our work at the locations every day without constantly looking at what Jürgen Klopp is doing. I don’t think he understands his role either,” said the former Salzburg coach.

Last year, Rose was criticized after a winless November, when Klopp, who had already been appointed, reportedly spoke out in favor of his former player. Klopp’s former Liverpool assistant Pepijn Lijnders, on the other hand, had to leave Salzburg after a difficult autumn and only fifth place in the table. The German Thomas Letsch, who is currently in the training camp with the Salzburg team in Albufeira in Portugal, was appointed as his successor in December.