Man Utd and Liverpool transfer target Timo Werner cleared to leave club by RB Leipzig boss

RB Leipzig head coach Julian Naglesmann has said that he will not stand in Timo Werner’s way should the 23-year-old Germany international decide he wants to leave the Bundesliga club.

Werner has shone leading the line for Leipzig since signing from VfB Stuttgart for €10m in 2016, scoring 61 goals in just 104 Bundesliga matches.

He is now worth around ten times that price and has attracted the interest of Premier League giants Manchester United and Liverpool.

And Naglesmann has said that he would never refuse a player’s request to leave his club.

“I’ve already advised many players to take off their wedding ring with their current club to move somewhere else,” he told Sport Bild.

“I’d do the same with Timo Werner if he were developing faster than the team at RB Leipzig.”

However, it would appear Leipzig have little desire to sell their star player, who has already won 28 full international caps and scored 11 goals.

“Timo just extended his contract with us recently, and we’re not thinking about letting him go at all,” the club’s sporting director, Markus Krosche, said recently.