Why is Julian Nagelsmann the perfect fit for RB Leipzig?

His eye for youth and progressive tactics

He gets every last ounce out of his players. This is clear by turning TSG from relegation contenders into top-four gate-crashers.

Midfielder Kemir Demirbay says Nagelsmann has helped him turn into a man on the football pitch.

It’s this nurturing of talent that has attracted attention from all corners of Europe.

Under Nagelsmann’s tutelage Niklas Sule has gone on to become Germany’s next great centre-back.

Serge Gnabry has become the goal-scoring winger he threatened to be at Arsenal and defender Kevin Akpoguma is now a mainstay.

Despite making the Champions League yet again, this year’s star man Mark Uth is to leave for Schalke 04.

Nagelsmann will have to show his tactical flexibility once more. His first year honed a defensive style that kept them in the division.

Whereas the last two years have been focused on fine-tuning a more progressive style with a three-man defence.

RB need to be re-energised and Nagelsmann could be the man to do it.

Re-united with Rangnick

For a multitude of reasons Leipzig are one of the most despised clubs in the German football league.

But they are also one of the most innovative.

Hence this appointment that indicates the East-German club are here to stay.

Nagelsmann will be re-united with a man he would have learned so much from after watching Rangnick as head-coach of Hoffenheim.

He even said that Rangnick proved the ‘basis’ of his work and that you can still sense the foundations he built at the Wirsol Rhein Neckar Arena.

But now they will be fully-fledged colleagues.

Rangnick praised the young coach’s intelligence and charisma.

The pair will act in tandem and share the same unforgiving drive for success that will mean RB Leipzig are not just here for a good time, but a long time too!

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