Overview
- RB Leipzig announced on Wednesday that it had dismissed head coach Ole Werner despite the team qualifying for next season’s Champions League.
- The club said it completed a final review of the season and decided new ideas and a different approach were needed, with sporting director Marcel Schaefer issuing the statement.
- German and Spanish media report — without club confirmation — that former Bayern defender Martín Demichelis is the preferred successor and that executives are working to finalise his arrival.
- Reporting says tensions between Werner and Red Bull’s football division, which now has centralized oversight under Jürgen Klopp, had cooled for months and helped prompt the change.
- The decision ends Werner’s one-year rebuild that steadied the squad and raises questions about how Red Bull’s group-level control will shape Leipzig’s coaching hires, staff choices and transfer plans going forward.