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Klopp reboots Leipzig’s ‘heavy metal football’
The Straits Times
|September 27, 2025
After the worst topflight season in their history, RB Leipzig underwent a club-wide reckoning, led by new head of football Jurgen Klopp.
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The result was a massive summer overhaul, with the team saying goodbye to their entire forward line. Xavi Simons moved to Tottenham Hotspur, Benjamin Sesko went to Manchester United and Lois Openda joined Juventus on loan. When the trio arrived at Leipzig in 2023, they were expected to establish a new period of success in Saxony.
They all left without winning a trophy.
“To be honest, maybe we lost a little bit of our DNA,” RB Leipzig sporting director Marcel Schafer told AFP and other media in September.
After winning a second successive German Cup in 2023, it looked like the Red Bull-backed club were finally delivering on the promise that followed their debut promotion in 2016.
The following campaign, however, Leipzig finished fourth, 25 points behind champions Bayer Leverkusen.
In 2024-25, they lost seven of eight matches in the Champions League and finished seventh in the Bundesliga, missing out on European football this season.
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