RB Leipzig separates from coach Rose-shortly before the cup semi-final

Downward trend in the Bundesliga, trembling for the Champions League: RB Leipzig separated from his coach Marco Rose. The 48-year-old had to vacate his post one day after the 0-1 at Borussia Mönchengladbach. The club announced that. The assistant coach Alexander Zickler, Marco Kurth and Frank Geeckeck and Frank Aehlig (Head of License Player) also have to go.

“We believed in the constellation with Marco and his team for a very long time and tried to create the trend reversal together. In view of the development and the lack of results, we are firmly convinced that we need a new impulse for the remaining games to achieve our season goals,” said sports director Marcel Schäfer.

The fact that the cup semi-final in Stuttgart is already going on on Wednesday didn’t matter. The Leipzig deficiency list was again too obvious in Mönchengladbach. If you sit on the bench in Stuttgart and look after the team until the end of the season, you would like to announce the club promptly.

With a cup victory and an average of 1.86 points in 125 games, Rose was one of the most successful Leipzig coaches. Only Domenico Tedesco, Julian Nagelsmann and Ralf Rangnick had a better point balance in the club’s Bundesliga period of the club.

Rose was committed as the successor to Tedesco in September 2022 and last had a contract until summer 2026. According to Jesse Marsch and Tedesco, Rose is the third coach one after the other, from whom Leipzig separated prematurely. Nagelsmann had previously been recruited from Bayern Munich.

Rose was already in front of that at the end of last year, when you didn’t win a single game in November and lost 1: 5 against VfL Wolfsburg. At that time, according to the new global football boss Jürgen Klopp, the new global football boss was committed to his former player. Most recently, Schäfer had also emphasized that he wanted to hold on to Rose. This changed the appearance in Gladbach.