RB Leipzig intends to attract another striker for next season in addition to Brian Brobbey, so assures Kicker. According to the Thursday edition of the German magazine, the Bundesliga club plans to fully use the lump sum for outgoing Julian Nagelsmann for the arrival of a new attack leader. On March 12, the almost transfer-free Brobbey officially signed a contract for four seasons die Rote Bullen from July 1.
Since putting his signature, Brobbey has seen the necessary happen at his future employer. Nagelsmann and technical director Markus Krösche will leave after this season and it is precisely that two that made a case for the arrival of the talent of Ajax. The trainer will be the successor of Hansi Flick to work at Bayern Munich, according to Kicker Transfer 25 million euros to Leipzig. Other media in Germany hold it at an amount of 30 million euros.
Krösche promised Brobbey a starting place and thus won the striker in the first quarter. Despite an ongoing contract for another year, the technical director and RB Leipzig are also separating ‘after intensive discussions’, it was recently announced. The new trainer of RB Leipzig will almost certainly be Jesse Marsch, who still has a contract with Red Bull Salzburg until mid-2022. Despite the Red Bull connection, a lump sum payment will have to be paid, although it will not be high. The millions from Bavaria will therefore be used for a new striker, it sounds.
In Germany, people are convinced that Marsch will not be the only one to make the switch from Salzburg to Leipzig. Patson Daka must become the striker that RB Leipzig is looking for. The 22-year-old attacker from Zambia signed a contract for five seasons with the Austrian top club in mid-2017 and broke through from the 2019/20 season. After 119 duels in all competitions, the counter stands at 65 goals. Not unimportant: 58 of these 65 hits he made in his last 81 duels for Red Bull Salzburg.
Daka signed a new contract with Red Bull Salzburg in December 2019 until mid-2024, which means that it can ask for the top prize for the attacker. Austrian media argue that Marsch insists on taking the Zambian with him. For Brobbey, Krösche and Nagelsmann were important reasons for choosing Leipzig. The departure of both is a hard blow for the Dutch youth international, which will undoubtedly also think his own of the good relationship between Marsch and Daka.
In the current selection of RB Leipzig, Yussuf Poulsen, Alexander Sörloth and Hee-chan Wang are the strikers that Nagelsmann has at his disposal. The strength of the club, in addition to the best defense in the Bundesliga, is that almost all players regularly score their goals and not just the strikers. It is telling that Poulsen is the current top scorer with 11 goals in 37 matches. Sörloth’s counter stands at six hits and Wang’s even at two. RB Leipzig was good for 55 goals in 31 league matches. Bayern (81), Borussia Dortmund (66), Eintracht Frankfurt (62) and Borussia Mönchengladbach (59) were more accurate, while VfL Wolfsburg (54), VfB Stuttgart (52) and Bayer Leverkusen (51) were barely inferior.