Bad news, Liverpool & Chelsea! RB Leipzig to BREAK the transfer market

Tom Weber

• Updated: 13 Apr 2024 18:16 BST
• 4 min read

RB Leipzig are set to tweak their transfer policy, according to German media.

The Bundesliga side are one of Europe's most prolific producers of elite talent thanks to the controversial backing they receive from beverage behemoth Red Bull. Leipzig can use their Red Bull network, which boasts clubs in Austria, the US and Brazil, to snap up talent from all across the globe.

This has seen the side from Saxony's largest city rake in hundreds of millions from sales. Iin conjunction with the fact that Red Bull can offset the club's losses, it has allowed them to spend big on the transfer market and establish themselves as one of Germany's top sides. Since arriving in the Bundesliga in 2016, Leipzig have sold €650m worth of talent.

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Many of the players sold by Leipzig went on to have careers in the Premier League. The likes of Naby Keita, Ibrahima Konate and Dominik Szoboszlai were sold to Liverpool for big money, while Christopher Nkunku and Josko Gvardiol joined Chelsea and Man City, respectively, last summer for a combined €150m, with the latter becoming the world's most expensive defender.

Transfer flow to dry up?

This talent drain from Leipzig to the Premier League may soon dry up, however. According to BILD, the Red Bulls are reappraising their current transfer model in light of what has been a disappointing campaign.

To date, the idea has been to sign young players, sell them on for massive profit and then replace them with young players again. This has been successful in that they have, as mentioned, made a fortune from it and it has seen them become ever-present in the Champions League in addition to winning two DFB-Pokal trophies.

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However, the idea when Leipzig came up to the Bundesliga was for them to, well, eventually win the league. This season, which has seen them struggle massively just to get into the Champions League places, has shown the club hierarchy that things need to change, it is claimed.

The above-mentioned report asserts that Leipzig could move away from their youth-focused approach and instead target more established, experienced, big-name players in a bid to be more competitive domestically. This, of course, would not only influence the Bundesliga market but it would also massively shake up the European and English markets.