Ralf Rangnick will combine his role as RB Leipzig's director of football with first-team coaching duties for the 2018-19 season, with long rumoured head-coach candidate Jesse Marsch as an assistant, as the club waits for the Julian Nagelsmann era to begin next year.
Leipzig pulled off something of a coup by securing the highly rated Nagelsmann for the start of the 2019-20 campaign shortly after Hoffenheim announced the 30-year-old was only going to remain for one more year.
But it left Leipzig in the unusual position of having a coach lined up for the future but not for the coming campaign following Ralph Hasenhuttl's departure.