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RB manager Max Eberl defends Salzburg transfers
3/3/2023 9:42 p.m
“In the long run, I’m just trying to get the best players to Leipzig.”
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Leipzig manager Max Eberl has defended player transfers from Austrian first division football club RB Salzburg to sister club RB Leipzig. “In the long run, I’m just trying to get the best players to Leipzig – and if the best player is playing for a possible replacement for Konni Laimer in Salzburg, then I’ll keep looking around there,” said the 49-year-old before the Top game against Borussia Dortmund on DAZN. A few days ago, midfielder Nicolas Seiwald was announced – the 21-year-old will be the 20th player to move from Salzburg to Leipzig since 2010.
During his tenure as manager of Borussia Mönchengladbach, the current RB manager had criticized transfers between the RB clubs Leipzig and Salzburg. “What bothers me about RB is this pushing of players from Salzburg to Leipzig and from Leipzig to Salzburg. That has a bad aftertaste for me because they basically have two squads.”, Eberl said in an interview with Focus Online in 2016. “I said something about it as an opponent at the time. Seven years later, the world has turned in football,” Eberl explained now.
