Red bulls are looking for new trainers: Lijnders has to go after a false start!
Red bulls are looking for new trainers: Lijnders has to go after a false start!
Salzburg, Österreich - In a surprising step, FC Red Bull Salzburg announced today that coach Pepijn Lijnders and assistant coach Vitor Matos were removed by their offices. According to the club media officer, this happened in the course of dissatisfied services that followed after a promising start to the season. Salzburg is now ten points behind the top of the table in the Bundesliga, which prompted the club to take a new direction. In a joint statement, club managers Stephan Reiter and Rouven Schröder expressed the conviction that the team needed a new impulse under new leadership. Despite the unrestricted gratitude for Lijnders' passion and efforts, a new trainer is now being sought, and this should be found until the start of the training on January 3., as on .
pepijn Lijnders, who started his career at PSV Eindhoven in 2002 and later worked at Liverpool under Jürgen Klopp, was only involved in Salzburg coach in May 2024. His contract was valid until June 2027. Although he initially stood in the headlines with praise for his work and books about training intensity, he quickly became targeted by the critics.
Against the resistance he took Alexander Schlager, the goalkeeper of the Austrian national team, from the starting eleven and used the loan player Janis Blaswich from Leipzig. This meant that Blaswich conceded 12 goals in the first three Champions League games, which Lijnders' position further under pressure.
With the review of his previous successes, such as winning the UEFA Champions League with Liverpool in 2019, the decision of the association was still radical. The hope that Lijnders could bring a successful restart for Salzburg with his experience rapidly turn into a downward trend, which made this step necessary. These developments throw a shadow about the club's ambitions to assert themselves in the Bundesliga and the European competitions, as reported by wikipedia .
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