New episode Done Deals
RB Leipzig has been in the Bundesliga since 2016 and hardly any other club has polarized fan circles as much as the newly crowned cup winners. The new episode of the Transfermarkt podcast “Done Deals” focuses on the reasons for this and the question of how the Saxons have successfully established themselves in professional football over the past ten years. Host Max Ropers will be in discussion with the journalist Ullrich Kroemer, who writes about the Bundesliga club for the “Mitteldeutsche Zeitung” and the portal “rblive.de”. Listen now at Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music.
From the beginning of the squad planning to the role of Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz and the Leipzig sister club from Salzburg to the strong headwind that has been blowing in the face of the club from the national fan scene, especially since its promotion to the top flight: Kroemer accompanied RB from the beginning in all development phases. At the start of the project, the commitment of the Austrian entrepreneur also met with skepticism and criticism in Leipzig, he reports in the TM podcast.
“It was not uncommon for the lawn of the training ground in Markranstädt to be vandalized during this time, for example. Those responsible for the club and the Red Bull bosses were afraid that there could be even more blatant riots here,” says the journalist.
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Half of the first RB squad consisted of the then SSV Markranstädt team, and over the years it was gradually increased with well-known players and later also stars who were supposed to accelerate the sporting rise. Yussuf Poulsen, Joshua Kimmich, Marcel Sabitzer, Emil Forsberg and Diego Demme are just a few of the names that played a role in the early days of the club.
“However, one of Mateschitz’s requirements, especially in the early phases, was that they didn’t want to pay any transfer fees – but instead offered high salaries. This approach was later broken up to a certain extent by Ralf Rangnick,” says Kroemer. In the past few years since joining the Bundesliga, investments by Leipzig have always ranged between 60 million and 100 million euros, with Benjamin Sesko and Nicolas Seiwald two of the most expensive additions in the club’s history for the new season have already been confirmed.
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Ropers and Koemer discuss in detail, critically and sometimes emotionally, a detailed look at the transfer developments, how the initial skepticism in the city itself towards the club changed and how it managed to establish itself in the top 5 of the league within a very short time in the new episode “Done Deals”!
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