Do we have a new national coach next week? Bierhoff is planning a conversation after Easter

Oliver Bierhoff is looking for a successor for national coach Jogi Löw.

The DFB director has arranged to meet Ralf Rangnick.

Düsseldorf - The DFB is looking for a new national coach.

As is well known, Jogi Löw * will step down after the European Championships in the summer.

Everything could happen very quickly now.

Oliver Bierhoff * is entrusted with the search for a successor and now apparently wants to hold concrete discussions with a candidate.

According to

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and

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information, the DFB director national teams and academy has agreed to meet Ralf Rangnick for an exchange after the Easter holidays.

Rangnick, who led TSG Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig into the Bundesliga, is currently in Mallorca and is expected back next week.

He is currently without a job.

DFB director Bierhoff plans to meet Rangnick - he is interested and available

Meanwhile, Bierhoff recently discussed the situation after Löw's announced resignation with the head of the association around President Fritz Keller, General Secretary Friedrich Curtius and Vice-Presidents Rainer Koch and Peter Peters in the team quarters of the German national team and agreed on how to proceed.

The decision was made to talk to Rangnick.

The 62-year-old had recently flirted openly with the national coach job

and even refused to return to ex-club Schalke 04.

Rangnick is not the preferred candidate within the DFB, but is considered an innovative solution, it is said.

New national coach: Bierhoff is also looking for DFB internally - Kuntz and Sorg in the raffle

Bierhoff will, however, also seek talks with other candidates.

The internal solutions Stefan Kuntz and Marcus Sorg are seriously considered.

Kuntz recently led the U21s to the quarter-finals as a coach at the European Championship and would probably not refuse a promotion.  

“I haven't really thought about it yet, honestly not.

Personally, I think: If someone at the DFB thinks we'll talk to Stefan, they'll call me and of course I'll go there too, ”said Kuntz on Tuesday in Budapest.

Löw's assistant coach Sorg is also said to be a candidate, but only has outsider chances.

Hansi Flick remains DFB preferred candidate - transfer dispute with FC Bayern threatens

The absolute preferred candidate is Hansi Flick *, but he is still under contract with FC Bayern until 2023.

DFB President Fritz Keller made it clear from the start not to contact tied coaches.

So Flick would have to give the signal of his own accord that he would like to switch.

If so, there is another problem.

The DFB does not want to pay a transfer fee for its new coach.

Ex-DFB sports director Matthias Sammer said in

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: “It would therefore not be a taboo subject for an association to pay a transfer fee for a coach.

On the contrary: It could be fair and clean. ”Bierhoff countered:“ In the past, we at the DFB have always given staff to clubs and never asked for a transfer fee.

Incidentally, this also included Matthias Sammer and Hansi Flick, when they were each DFB sports director. "

Flick free transfer to the DFB?

FC Bayern shouldn't like this scenario at all.

But perhaps this problem can soon be shelved, namely if Bierhoff and Rangnick agreed on a collaboration.

National player Ilkay Gündogan recently made a completely different proposal that initially nobody had on the slip.

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