Mintzlaff on Eberl's exit from Leipzig: "No big bang".

Max Eberl and those responsible at RB Leipzig did not part ways in a dispute, according to Red Bull managing director Oliver Mintzlaff. "After all, there was no big bang. It's also not that we quarreled - on the contrary. Max and I still had a very proper and good telephone conversation yesterday," Mintzlaff told ZDF's "Sportstudio" on Saturday evening. "It's also not like there's anything between Max and me, not at all. That was a decision that Max could also understand and that he has also accepted."

The Cup winner had parted ways with his sports director Eberl on Friday due to a lack of "commitment to the club," according to RB. That the timing was unfavorable a day before the top match on Saturday against Bayern Munich (2:2), Mintzlaff did not want to let stand so. "You have seen today: That had no impact, I had also said before the game."

Sports director Simon Rolfes of Bayer Leverkusen would see a quick change Eberls to the record champion Bayern Munich, where he has been traded for some time, critically. "After such a separation - for whatever reasons that happened - then immediately start again somewhere else, I would find difficult," said the ex-professional: "But I may not judge that in the end."