Piano, dinner, Thomas Tuchel’s assistant and weeks as a fly on the wall inside Ralph Hasenhuttl’s management could all underpin Jesse Marsch’s Leeds United masterplan this weekend. Southampton visit Elland Road on Saturday with an Austrian head coach very familiar to Marsch as a fellow former stablemate at Red Bull on the continent.
Hasenhuttl has been with the Saints since December 2018, but prior to working in Hampshire had been with RB Leipzig for two seasons. It was in the Bundesliga he met Marsch for the first time.
During the winter of the 2016/17 campaign, in what was Marsch’s Major League Soccer close season with New York Red Bulls, the Whites boss spent six to seven weeks embedded with Hasenhuttl at Leipzig. Marsch said: “Ralph is an incredible human being, that's the first thing that needs to be said.
