Transfer taboo for Eberl at RB? Vivell about “tough” Salzburg deals
18 Transfer from Salzburg to Leipzig
The move from Salzburg to Leipzig is a thorn in the side of many observers. For Vivell an understandable point of view. “Of course, if you look at history, some ex-Salzburgers play in Leipzig. It doesn’t look that great on paper,” he said. However, RB is not the only Bundesliga customer. “Salzburg is the best German training club.”
Vivell: Transfers also with Red Bull “really hard work”
No way is a deal with his preferred employer for the people of Leipzig a snap of the fingers. For example, Erling Haaland and Karim Adeyemi lost RB to BVB. Now Vivell, together with the RB leadership, has signed Benjamin Sesko for the next season. A young striker who he brought to Austria and for whom Salzburg paid a lot of money back then. “We managed to convince Sesko to come to us. It’s really hard work. It has to be said that going from Salzburg to Leipzig, Gladbach or Dortmund is a healthy step for a player.”
Red Bull Salzburg transfers under criticism
In this context, it will be interesting to see how the transfer streams will look in the future. Because the new RB manager Max Eberl once criticized exactly this connection when he was still sitting on the chair at Borussia Mönchengladbach. He was bothered by “this pushing of players from Salzburg to Leipzig,” he once said. “It smacks of thread to me because they basically have two squads.” It is doubtful that Eberl will not represent a Salzburg player based on his explicit statements.
Eberl emphasized that he would not bring any Gladbachers
But it would be really explosive if he brought players directly from Gladbach. Because both he and coach Marco Rose worked there, the idea makes sense. According to the Bild newspaper, such a scenario played a role in the tough negotiations between Eberl, Gladbach and Leipzig and the 48-year-old is said to have made it clear that he did not want to use his former club. Even without such deals, Eberl had already been badly insulted by Gladbach supporters.
Nagelsmann undermined his own statements
However, RB fans have had to find out for themselves how much such assurances are worth. Julian Nagelsmann once scoffed that he would “not rent a T6 to take players from Leipzig to Munich.” Then, alongside Dayot Upamecano, captain Marcel Sabitzer and half the coaching staff moved to Munich.