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RB Leipzig need to qualify for the next Champions League if they want to keep Xavi Simons and Dani Olmo beyond the season, sporting director Rouven Schröder believes. “It improves our basis if we can offer players this stage. It is essential with Xavi but also with Dani Olmo. It is simply the measure of all things,” Schröder told a podcast of the Bild paper. A top four finish in the Bundesliga is required to play in the next Champions League, and Leipzig are currently fifth, one point behind Borussia Dortmund but already seven adrift of third-placed VfB Stuttgart. Leipzig were narrowly elimina…

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