Tedesco on the hot seat, Werner might get a new coach soon

When current Leeds coach Jesse Marsch was sacked in December 2021, RB Leipzig were in trouble. Not relegation trouble, but Champions League trouble. This football club doesn’t have high ambitions, but participation in Europe’s most competitive competition is a must. Whatever you do, just don’t risk the Champions League spot; that is the motto of the club’s executives, led by CEO Oliver Mintzlaff. So, when Marsch was sacked after four months, Leipzig were 11th in the Bundesliga table, having won just five games out of 14.

He was replaced by Domenico Tedesco, managed to secure a Champions League spot, and fast forward nine months, the club is in crisis again. After 5 weeks, Leipzig has only one win, and is already 6 points behind the last place which leads to the Champions League. But, according to the German media, Mintzlaff will not wait another four months, as he did with Marsch, so Tedesco needs to worry.

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It's not just the results, it’s the tactics. Leipzig lost this Saturday 4-0 against Frankfurt, and in all games together, Tedesco’s team scored only 4 goals.

“We completely missed the basics, we weren't on the pitch at all in the first half. We were lousy, really, disaster. That's far too little for the demands of RB Leipzig” said the Germain after the 4-0 loss.  

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The club officials paid 20 million euros to Chelsea to bring back Timo Verner but it hasn’t worked out yet. As it stands, the former Schalke coach is on a ‘short leash. And there are other candidates waiting already. The first of them is Marco Rose. Surprisingly sacked after just one year in Borussia Dortmund, the former Monchengladbach coach refused all job offers at home and abroad as he is focused on building his dream house for the family on a lake near the town of Leipzig. He is only interested in taking over Leipzig and maybe Leverkusen, another high-spending team in crisis. He was a coach of RB Salzburg, another club owned by Red Bull owners and has their football philosophy in his DNA.

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And another candidate fits perfectly also. Addi Hutter is an Austrian coach, currently out of the job, since his premature exit from Monchengladbach after only one year, after he was brought in as a replacement for – Rose. And guess what, he also managed RB Salzburg in the past, so he is very familiar with the club’s philosophy. They are waiting, and Tedesco is sweating. The next few games can determine his future. Leipzig are playing Shakhtar Donetsk and Real in the Champions League and both Borussia’s in the Bundesliga.