A new season begins for Péter Gulácsi

With the dust now settled on this summer’s delayed European Championships, it is time for Hungary’s 26-man squad to go back to club business and for one man in particular, it will mean returning between the sticks for Red Bull Leipzig.

The man in question is Péter Gulácsi and with the shot stopper having a rather impressive showing on the international stage just a couple of months ago, he will look to carry that level of performance over to the Bundesliga.

That’s because Red Bull Leipzig or RB Leipzig as they are perhaps better known, will once again look to offer something of a genuine title challenge this season and with it being all change in the former East German city, such ambition may prove to be difficult.

Especially, as the energy drink backed club have lost their former manager to arch-rivals and whereas Bayern Munich are known for poaching the best clubs within the division, they have subsequently poached arguably the best manager.

Because with Julien Nagelsmann swapping the Red Bull Arena for that of the Allianz variety, it means the nine-time defending Bundesliga champions can now call upon one of Europe’s hottest managerial talents.

Of course, football as in life must always go on and with Red Bull owning a network of clubs, there is always an element of succession for events such as above and when Nagelsmann moved onto Munich, the next manager already lied in wait.

With Red Bull Salzburg lighting up the Austrian version of the Bundesliga, it was pretty obvious that Jesse Marsch was always going to be on the radar of fellow European clubs and one of those was reportedly Celtic of Scotland.

The Glasgow giants took a long amount of time in finally naming a new manager of their own and before former Australian international manager Ange Postecoglou was installed, Marsh was considered to be in the frame.

However, Celtic’s timing was not ideal and with a vacancy opening up in Leipzig, staying within the Red Bull network seemed of greater preference to the man who is now installed as their current manager.

While it has certainly been a summer of overhaul for last season’s Bundesliga runners-up and not just from a managerial point of view either, as there has been a considerable change in terms of playing personnel.