It’s not only the RB Leipzig job which has been taken off the table for Danny Röhl this week, but that will be the one which stings most for the Sheffield Wednesday manager.
That’s the job he’s been pitching himself for this summer. The effort has included chats with the club’s local media and insisting he could make the step up from the Championship to the Champions League without too much fuss.
One of the big, and very understandable, reasons he wanted that job so much is that his wife and children have settled in Leipzig and therefore it would have been the perfect move for the Röhl family.
Wolfsburger Allgemeine report the Sheffield Wednesday manager got to the final three for the VfL Wolfsburg job but lost out to Dutchman Paul Simonis, who is the club’s first non-German speaking coach since Steve McClaren in 2011.
Simonis was previously manager of Go Ahead Eagles and will now take a crash course in German in an attempt to get up to speed. Along with Röhl, FC Copenhagen’s Jacob Neestrup was the other man making up the final three.
Earlier this summer it was reported Danny Röhl is being held back by the amount of compensation Sheffield Wednesday are asking for.
