Is Bayer Leverkusen Reshaping German Football? 

A Midfielder who is coached by Guardiola, Mourinho, rafa benetiz and Ancelotti it's obvious that he'd be an amazing Technician on and off the field.

As a german, the difference between Bayer Leverkusen and RB/Hoffenheim is that Leverkusen has history and tradition as a "Arbeiterverein", a worker's club. Leverkusen also never skewed the competition in lower leagues, they promoted fairly and without huge budgets. I definetely wish that Leverkusen's members finally get their fair share of the club, but I'd rather have RB and Hoffenheim out of the league before that.

Bro is out here getting top tier animations for his videos, respect the grind bro.

As a Leverkusen fan, thanks for the coverage, for the first time in 20 years as a fan it feels like anyone cares about us^^

Here after Bayer Leverkusen won the Bundesliga

Im a BVB fan and im obsessed with watching Leverkusen this past year. Theyre so exciting to watch, do great business, and they play gorgeous football. I really hope they find success in the form of hardware soon.

The club actually has the nickname "Vizekusen" in German, "vize" meaning "vice" or "runner-up" (i.e. Vizepräsident = vice president, Vizemeister = runner-up in the league, etc.), especially after their 2002 season, where they were runner-up in all competitions. Never heard the term "Neverkusen" before, really interesting =).

Everyone is talking about Leverkusen but not Stuttgart though, they have played Relegation Play-offs like yesterday and they are now second in Bundesliga table

Fun fact: In german it is Vizekusen, which translated literally means "Runners-up-Kusen". Bayer even managed to have the runners up-treble in 2001/02, in the Bundesliga 1 point behind Dortmund lost the final in the domestic cup against Schalke lost the final against Real Madrid 🥲

The signings from Leverkusen were TREMENDOUS! Hofmann, Boniface, Xhaka and escpecially Grimaldo... this is a full on Title-Team!

As a Dortmund Fan my emotions regarding Leverkusen right now are fear and jealousy. We might be getting the results in the league, but Leverkusen is just on another level right now. Everything is working together perfectly, every single position in their starting 11 looks ridiculously strong

My favorite Leverkusen player is Exequiel Palacios. Super underrated

On FM22 I got Boniface for my Palermo save. He wasn’t rated highly in all metrics of the game but he performed every season. It’s great to see he’s doing well IRL. It’s funny having a connection to a player from a video game and then seeing them get good in real life.

As a Bayern fan, I'm really delighted about both Leverkusen and Xabi! Proper competition in the league can't do any harm, and 'kusen being this exceptionally good makes them a proper threat, creating a fascinating 4(+1) race. We have our surprise team of the season so far in the form of Stuttgart (the +1, as they probably won't be able to maintain this level whole season long). BVB is right there with the same amount of points as FCB, although the football they play hasn't convinced me at all. The caffein merchants from Leipzig aren't that far either. It's the most interesting BL start since eternity 😅 And it's not even about Bayern being worse - I'm not entirely satisfied with the performance of the team but it's still the most points in the first 8 matches since I think 2016/7. That time it was easily enough for the 1st spot - now we only get the 3rd spot by goal difference. It would be great to see Xabi as Bayern manager sometime in the future, when he gains more experience!

Iam born in Leverkusen 1983. I followed soccer since 20 years. I agree with you that the misconception from Seoane and the bad influence from outside get more and more trouble in the team. The tence and the spirit was not good enough anymore. I have deep respect for Bayer 04 Leverkusen about the buisness modell they are representent. The investations always are well balanced and the pressure was never to high for good growth. I am thankful for everyone who support because Bayer never has the lobby like munich or Dortmund have. Thankfully there are so many good reporters who honnors now the good clubpolitic. I hope that more and more fans recognized the good work in the youth and the respectful behaviour.

My God the editing!!! We are seeing a 2012 Messi type run here from FI.

Actually when analyzing leverkusens start to last season, it has to be mentioned that from how they played, they were not bad at all. They had more possesion, more shots and a higher xg than most of their opponents even before xabi came in. They lost a lot of games in an unfortunate way, also due to their really young squad. When that trend continued the players self-belief obviously went down and they started to play bad. That‘s when seoane was sacked. But it has to be mentioned that from those stats, xabi already inherrited a reallly good team. The main thing he had to do was instill the belief again in the players. That he did and to this season he also evolved their playing style.

As an Englishman, I need to head over to Leverkusen to watch one of their games. Their team is insane and the atmosphere will be amazing

I recommend that you make a video on Serhou Guirassy as he has had a phenomenal start to the season with 14 goals in his first 8 games (13 goals in his first 7 and 10 in his 5) and about Stuttgart in general as so far this season they've been flying high.

Xabi was, most likely, my favorite player ever. He is the reason why i always liked to play the DM position and his long passes were a thing of beauty. I am sure he will do very well as a coach and i think Mourinho said that he is one of the most intelligent players he has ever coached. He will definitely succeed

Recently got to cross off a lot of bucket list stadiums while studying abroad in Austria. I was lucky enough to see Leverkusen's home league win over Bayern in the spring, and it was a phenomenal atmosphere I would highly recommend! One thing that shocked me was how big the football team's reputation is relative to size of the city of Leverkusen itself. Really spoke to the passion of the supporters and the global image of the club given I had been fairly familiar with the club even as an American.

Love the new type of editing, so enjoyable to watch.

I still remembered the day when I heard Xabi is out from Liverpool. My heart breaks, I know we are heading to a difficult path after Alonso is gone, and I was right. What a player, really love his work ethic, and has a very reliable face, even when we goals down, he never show any sign of giving up.

This new editing style isn’t getting enough love bro! Love seeing this upgrade in your work

Always love it when you make videos about our incredible league. Keep it up man

If Xabi keeps this up, the real question would be: how long can Leverkusen keep him? Personally, I would love a Xavi vs. Xabi Classico in the new future. Winner gets to decide the correct spelling of their name 🤣

your humor is great! keep on going ;) great video as alwasys

Loving the new editing style! Keep it up!

Your presentation is 🔥. Much love. Keep it up

Love the edits so much! It changed a lot!

Good video! Very fun to watch and informative!

Good video. Leverkusen have been on my radar since late last season with their turnaround under Alonso. Tifo football recently made a video about their rise too. They're an interesting team and one to look out for. Kind of like Arteta's Arsenal in 2022.

Great content, as usual. I had no idea about the Arteta-Alonso connection. Good luck for the Bokks on saturday!

The new editing and animation styles look slick and do help the video but there was something nice about the static style you had before. Either way good video as usual

Always love your Bundesliga content!

damn. new edits are crazy bro. Leveled up I see

I like love the english term for Leverkusen as Never-kusen. I think this season will be even more surprising than the last one, Leverkusen is back in form, Stuttgart is outperforming almost everyone, Dortmund win their games, Union is quite underperforming. It's going to be a fun season to watch. Ah before I forget great video as always.

This is a huge step up in quality. Your videos are usually high quality but damn this is a huge step up.

Ay new edits are always welcome and appreciated

They're the team I follow in the german league simply bc of Xhaka and wow they're so good what Xabi has done is insane and the players are balling out it's amazing to watch

Fabulous video, Mr. iconic! It’s nice to hear positive stories once in a while. Thank you for all of your hard work! 🙏🎃👻🐈‍⬛🌒

Loving the new visual ❤

Production value has gone up on these videos. Looking good man. Loving the content here in the US

Xabi along is a genius. As a bayern fan i'm not surprised by his success with the iq he was playing throughout his career.

The annual table caught me off guard no cap.... The astrix pointing out it's an annual table would have been nice, but great vid Incredible quality too

thanks for this awesome and well presented content, mate :)

Fantastic watch as always 👊🏿

Love new editing style ❤❤❤

I love the new edit style, keep it up mate.

bro leveled up the animations 🔥

where is the liverpool vid (also love the new editing)

Great video, really hope Xabi does well there.

As an Arsenal fan it makes me both happy and sad that Xhaka is doing so well

Top Video as always mate, maybe do one on VfB Stuttgarts rise?

Great video man!

Mourinho onve said in interview even before xabi becoming manager that he will become really good manager as his fsther was manager.he played under himself(mourinho),guardiola,rafa benitez,del bosque,so eventually he will also be a successful manager.special one is special one when it comes to predictions about players

Very good video. I love it to watch Leverkusen play this season and hopefully they run through the league - even in the europa league I got my stocks, that they will be in min. the semi finals!

You got a new editor? The feel and the visuals of the vid are absolutely incredible.

The only youtube soccer critic i respect. Best voice to go to sleep! Its a compliment❤

You should do a video on Ajax and the way they are in the relegation zone after 7 matches and failed to win a match of their last 8

I like your analysis bro

Thanks for the Bundesliga content!

I always had a soft spot for Leverkusen and seeing them play amazing makes me happy.

I've always been in love with 3-4-3 (3-4-2-1 fits the bill), as long as you have wingers willing to stride the field and a rock solid CB, the counter attacking possibilities are insane and beautiful to watch.

Great video

Nice editing

The animations have elevated the experience 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This Channel is 🔥!

As a diehard Leverkusen Fan: This Team always had Potential but in the 14 seasons I've watched them the squad was never that good. If there is a perfekt year to win sth its this year with that players and that Coach. PS: Thank you for making that video, can't believe how much recognition B04 is getting rn ❤❤❤

Wow a video to the bundesliga. Now we need a vfb stuttgart video

Leverkusen never looked doomed for relegation , they just had a horrendous start . They had the asbolute second best squad in the league last season and they just underperformed with it ,what Xabi has done is great , but it's thanks to Rolfes' scouting and squad building even more than Xabi magic

Yeah i must agree with the formation..it is well balance in the pitch..with the formation of defensive and not to forget with mind set attacking, i m looking forward for leverkusen achievement in the up coming years ahead 👍👍

Great video! I would be more careful about player positions, though: CB, CM and AM are flipped: Tapsoba plays to the left, and so do Xhaka and Wirtz.

Bald Arteta (Pep style) is something I wasn’t ready to see today 😂😂😂

Klopp is the only manager i can think of that seemed like maybe he couldn't turn it around but he has proven those doubts wrong, and has reinvented Liverpool

i liked the new editing

I’m a relatively football fan, only seriously interested in it right before the European season started, and German football has a different feel to me than any of the other leagues. I decided to follow Leverkusen just before the new season started because I heard that Sardar Azmoun (one of my favorite players from before I’d really known about football) was on the team. I was disappointed to find out he had been loaned to Roma for the season, but I decided to just watch Leverkusen anyways because the research I did on them kind of endeared them to me. Really enjoying the season so far, and I have a real knack for following teams right before they do something big from the shadows, and it might shape up that way again

Love the new editing style! Though if I had to provide any feed-back, I would say it's a bit too "Mr. Beasty" if you can say that haha. Mostly at the beginning with transitions and sfx. Too fast paced for a doc-style video. Love your content as always though, Tinashe❤

Hope he stays and creates his own legacy for a while. Talk of him going elsewhere will destroy whats started out so good. It’s time to bring back those long storied careers that start and happen in one place. He and Arteta have a chance to be future greats of the game. Teams like Man Utd and Chelsea, only wish they had the patience or could find a manager and give them time.

great video. I have been watching every Leverkusen game this season from Canada. I actually placed $15 bet on them to wiin the Bundesliga this season at very nice odds. Fingers crossed!

Xabi Alonso was my favourite player ever! I always knew how brilliant he was - he captained Sociedad to a 2nd place in Laliga, went to Liverpool and you know the rest. One of the most underrated football player. and thank you for pronouncing his name right. half of these football channels don't even know how to pronounce his name and 90% of football fans. 10% thinks he's Xavi😅

Great video. But the image of Arteta at 7:32 is Guardiola and Arteta love child.

Nobody talks about Palacios, but he's crucial for this team. He's probably the best midfielder in German football atm

Yes excited about my favourite team !

Every season I pick the most exciting team and they have been teams playing in the CL but for the first time a EL team is the most exciting and that team is of course Bayer Leverkusen! I would love them to win the league and I think they'll want that even more than the EL

6:45 absolutely love that!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Did you hire an editor this videos editing is through the roof

I miss these types of videos. Like the OG days

It was always a privilege watching Alonso play from His Liverpool days to Bayern. I hope he gets silverware with Leverkusen. Long Live The Red Beard!

What is this "Moon" type of animations? Nice video tho, brother

Thank you for being willing to risk demonetization to include video footage of games and not just photos, makes it much better 👌🏼

Dude video’s just had a glow up

They are title contenders this season because they have 16-17 players on roughly the same level. Stanisic, Hincapie, Andrich, Adli, Schick, Hlozek, Artur and Tellah are either on the bench or injured. That`s insane.

It almost always works because it is very difficult for the goalkeeper to get down quick enough to stop the shot or even get down at all. Simple, but very effective! I love it.

Xabi Alonso effect 🔥🔥🔥

Xabi does everything with class.

Got damn Spain and their Xavi's. Got one winning leagues in a bankrupt Barca raising a pair of some badass young midfielders. The other took a bottom of the barrel "Never"kusen to a spot in Europe last season and now top of the table this seasons. Super fun to watch. It's like watching highlight reels. Hoping for a battle of the Xavi's v2.0 in the champ league one day.

2:45 the german version is actually "Vizekusen", because they were 2nd so many times

Leverkusen squad is insane Alex Wirtz (20 years, 80 Million and insane goal last matchday. With Musiala Germany’s best talent) Jeremy Frimpong,(22, 45 mio and a playertype like Davies.) Schick (27, 25 mio, Silver boot Euros, Silber boot Bundesliga) Bonifcace (22, 40 mio, 8 goals and 2 assists in 10 Bundesliga games) Tabsoba (24, 40 mio, CB) Kossounou (22, 28 mio, CB) Amine Adli (23, 25 mio, LW) Grimaldo (28, 25 mio, former La masia Player, Benfica Legend, sensational freekickgoal vs Bayern) Palacios (25, 35 mio, World Champion, Copa America winner, Copa Libertadores winner, Finalissima winner and last minute equalizer vs Bayern this season) Hincapie (21, 35 mio) Stanisic (23, 12 mio, RB, loaned from Bayern who would like to end the loan in Winter, big talent, WC bronze medal winner) Hlozek (21, 18 Million, big future talent) Xhaka (31, 20 mio, 225 PL games for Araenal, 127 Bundesliga games, more than 100 international games) Tella (24, 23 mio, offensive midfielder) Hoffmann (31, 13 mio, 51 goals and 53 assists in just 214 Bundesliga games as a midfielder, also German Nationalplayer) Tah (27, 20 mio, German Nationalteam CB) So many insane talented youth player and also some experienced players and with Alonso the most talented coach in Europe.

Can u do a video about Schalke and how bad they are right now?