🖐 💼 The top five candidates for the Borussia Dortmund job | OneFootball

So that’s it for Lucien Favre and Edin Terzić will lead Borussia Dortmund until the end of the season. But then what?

Dortmund are still on the search for a new head coach to lead them into 2020/21. Here are our five top candidates for the job.

The Favourite

Marco Rose

The hot favourite, too, by the looks of things. Previously in charge of RB Salzburg, Rose has been in the Bundesliga with Borussia Mönchengladbach for under 18 months. And he has impressed.

After qualifying for the Champions League last season, the Austrian, who played under Jürgen Klopp at Mainz, has led Gladbach into the knockout rounds this season. The Foals’ aggressive, front foot football caused plenty of problems for Real Madrid and Inter in a tough group.

According to BILD, he  has a release clause in his contract next summer, which should make it easier to prise him away from Gladbach, if he wants the job.

The Big Name

Mauricio Pochettino

The Argentine has been out of work for over a year now and Dortmund, with the club’s young players and the fans’ demand for an aggressive, attacking football, look like the perfect project.

Language could be an issue and Dortmund have never hired a coach who doesn’t speak German before, but Pochettino has the pedigree.

Could he be tempted by another project, one closer to the top than Spurs were when he arrived, instead of continuing to wait for one of the world’s richest clubs?

The Caretaker

Edin Terzić

Educated in the Dortmund school of coaching, Terzić worked with the club’s youth teams and then the reserve side before becoming Slaven Bilić’s assistant at Besiktas and West Ham.

The 38-year-old returned to Dortmund in 2018 to become part of Favre’s coaching team and is now in charge until the end of the season.

Could a stunning run of results see him stake a serious claim for the job long-term?

The Rival

Julian Nagelsmann

Wouldn’t it be something if BVB could snatch Nagelsmann from Bundesliga rivals RB Leipzig?

Chief executive Aki Watzke is believed to have been a fan for a long time but the coach has a contract until 2023 at Leipzig and, according to reliable Dortmund newspaper Ruhr Nachrichten, is eyeing a big move abroad when he leaves his current post.

The American

Jesse Marsch

The man who replaced Rose at RB Salzburg, the sister club of Nagelsmann’s RB Leipzig.

Marsch has proven in the Champions League that he can coach a side to punch above their weight and compete with bigger fish, which is what Dortmund will have to do to ever topple Bayern or have a go at European glory. Plus he worked with Erling Haaland in Austria.

For all the criticism of their legitimacy, the Red Bull operation is incredibly well run. Ralf Rangnick and Ralph Hasenhüttl have also been in charge at Leipzig in the past and mentioned in passing as potential candidates.