Jürgen Klopp sits as Head of Global Soccer for the Red Bull family. This is anything but an ambassador role, which gives the coaching legend a hand in most of what happens within the RB portfolio. When sporting director Rouven Schröder is sent from the flagship of the Bundesliga to the “outpost” RB Salzburg on Sunday with immediate effect, then Mr Klopp has been part of the process.
This comes the day after RB Leipzig supporters and Jürgen Klopp had to watch the club at home get run over 1-5 by Wolfsburg, before this is a streak of six games and a poor win.
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On paper, it is not about a demotion of Schröder, at RB Salzburg he will be Geschäftsführer with overall responsibility for the Austrian club’s sporting investment. However, there is no doubt about what Klopp and the management thought of Schröder’s job as sporting director at the flagship of the Bundesliga.
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