Xabi Alonso chose the more AMBITIOUS path by rejecting Liverpool & Bayern… 

Be honest, were you convinced to join 'Big Club FC'?

the people calling him unambitious just hate when a non traditional big club win.

Xabi will also get to try to play in the champions league with Leverkusen. so he will get to test himself against the best of the best managers, in a situation where he would have less pressure and demand to win the CL(but at Madrid, Liverpool and Bayern we would be expected to win the CL right away) I think most of the players will choose to stay, it seems that this Leverkusen squad do really love playing for Leverkusen and believe in Xabi Alonso`s vision and football belief`s.

Xabi Alonso is showing everyone the virtues of being patient, and that is the most refreshing thing of all in the chaotic carousel that is modern football.

Xabi has 20-30 years of coaching ahead of him, He's gonna coach every big club twice at least.

As the athletic puts it, he prefers to play it smart and patient. Playing the long game instead of coming for a quick money bag, a refreshing philosophy in today's age of trigger happy decision making.

I am a Liverpool fan and i really think this was the right decision for him. I personally didn't wanted him to come to Liverpool or go Bayern Munich because it's just too early for him. It's good that he taking time and horning his skills. What he is doing with Leverkusen is really something special. If he stays few more seasons and does really good he basically goes to Real Madrid. After thay he will have good amount of knowledge. He can come to Liverpool and easily manage us for 10 years. Till he comes to Liverpool he will have even bigger experience and he can complete his story which he was not able to as a player. He knows that he has only one chance to go bigger clubs and get to manage them. It's good he is taking time and just no jumping the boat. Just shows how good of a person he is and how much relationship matters to him.

Absolutely loved the "big club fc" sketch. Didn't know you had quite the comedic acumen. Would definitely love to see more sketches in your future videos

I'm a LFC fan and totally would have loved Xabi to return as manager, but I completely agree with you. I greatly respect his decision to remain at Leverkusen and actually think that it's the more courageous choice. Love your content 🤘🏻

Xabi Alonso enjoyed five successful years at Real Madrid between 2009 and 2014, pulling the strings from midfield with his remarkable passing range. The former Real Sociedad, Liverpool, Bayern Munich and Spain midfielder had an eye for a pass and you can see that with this collection of his best assists at Real Madrid. Alonso set up the likes of Karim Benzema, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gonzalo Higuaín and Ángel Di María during his time at the club. Well done to Xabi the entire Bayer team and especially Granit Xhaka. I'm not an Arsenal fan, but boy has he had a season he will never forget. He deserves this victory, the title win with Leverkusen.

Respectfully, given the fact that managerial farces such as lampard & Gerard were given plenty of opportunities with much less managerial merit… I think xabi will do ok no matter next season’s outcome

I actually think this is a safer move since he doesn't want to leave a club that adores him and he doesn't want to crash & burn like other young managers that take up big gigs too early

Super happy he's staying. Coz even tho as a Madridista id love for him to join us, the football fan in me wants to see this Leverkusen side fulfill their full potential. Too often we see teams pop up and then get torn apart instantly like that Dortmund team, Málaga, Monaco, Ajax etc before they can build on anything. Also congratulations Leverkusen 🎉❤ you guys made history regardless what happens in the remainder of the season

Staying is the best choice: even if next season is an average one, he´ll still be a proven winner. Instead, if he went to any of the big clubs after him and had an average season, they'd write him off for good. He has nothing to lose and everything to win

First manager ever to when a Bundesliga with Leverkusen? Not too Xabi, Alonso! 👍👏😄😄

Ancelotti contract ends 2026, Alonso's 2026...

if alonso manages to defend the title or just push bayern till the end of the season, he can pick any club he wants, even more so than he could have this season

Going to clubs like ManU, Newcastle, and Chelsea, etc. kill a young player's career. As a bayern fan, it will be two more seasons of "weakness" i think. Whole team needs to be cleared out and rebuilt. Bundesliga summer transfer window will be interesting. Right now Leverkusen and Leipzig have stronger squads than bayern. BvB is irrelevant with terzic.

Xabi staying is GREAT for Football! Football NEEDS more clubs to breakthrough and genuinely COMPETE in Europe with the big clubs!

I hope the key players like wirtz grimaldo frimpong andrich boniface tapsoba etc etc all decide to stay. It's a long shot, I expect a couple of them to leave.

Xabi doesn’t need the money. The story is more valuable to him. The exit is to Real Madrid if anything.

Staying at lever to build his own legacy is a smart choice in my opinion. Less pressure.

Why do people think competition for bayern is a downfall for bayern😂😂…damn every one has become so damn complacent to thrm winning its sad that its suddenly turmoil that they didnt win it. Yall rave how the prem has competition, that other leagues dont. Suddenly there is a competition to the same winner and its chaos😂😂…holy shit, bayern fans and those conspiracy people. Just accept the competition!!

I like the perspective of the agent you gave. Great video! I hope they can keep their players to really test how good they are against the best in Europe!

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Bayern and Liverpool is a completely different league than Leverkusen, then as the direct successor to J. Klopp you can actually only lose + as a German I can't tell you exactly who has what to say in Bavaria.

This is the right step I think. Xabi is still young for a manager and leverkusen is the best environment with lower risk, expectation and pressure to develop.

Alonso isn't blinded by success he's playing the long game

We're a big fan of this channel, Big ups Bro. We see you 🎉

Absolute CHAD move I'll definitely be following next year

It's definitely the more risky decision as regression seems inevitable even with the exact same squad. Everything went their way this season but what happens if they start losing key players to injuries and stop getting lucky bounces? Then you have Bayern who will make changes to take the league back. It'll be fascinating to watch

Xabi Alonso has my full respect. He took a team that was really underwhelming and turned the team on its head, now they're undefeated. This is like picking a weaker team in career mode in fifa and trying to win the league with that team. Full respect

Leverkusen to win the champions League next season. That would be remarkable

you have a second channel about tv shows? i would love that

Banger video loved it

As a player, Xabi also did not leave his clubs on the first offer. I think he wants to keep his word (in terms of contract duration) and puts loyalty and reliability/responsibility first. one should not forget that Leverkusen took a big risk with appointing him in the first place. He might just say 'hey, it's great here. great team with room for development. and these guys gave me this amazing opportunity, I want to pay them back'. for me, Xabi shows maturity and integrity with this decision. we (the general football fans) so often complain about the money greed in football and when someone (like Xabi now) decides against it, we should respect and appreciate that, instead of criticizing it.

Liverpool, Madrid, every big club will still be there in a couple of years. You don't leave the club you've helped build after winning it all. This is just the beginning of a great manager career

It honours him. People like Potter who imagined themselves as big shots deserving a major club to coach should take note. Also it's a sensible choice: there's a lot of uncertainty at Bayern while Liverpool are stuck in the merciless role of trying to topple a team that's too good and not playing by the same rules as the others. It's better to leave them aside and wait for the Real Madrid job when Ancelotti does leave.

I think the real challenge would have been coming to Benfica. That would have been where he could really prove himself. Anything else really seems easy 😂😂😂

One important thing is Xabi in next year if doesn't win a thing but doesn't underperform will still have height rate as manager, because no one expect him to win twice in row, from all you said. While if he doesn't deliver in Bayern or Liverpool things might go wrong way.

The point about whether other clubs will come in for him again, it doesn't need to be multiple. Even if it's just 1, as long as it's the right one. Stock could fall with a poor season but could rise further with a good one. As Adrian said, it would give him more grace at a bigger club if he has a bad start/shaky period.

Those that think, that staying at bayer is unambitious are deluded. You have fever ressources, less leeway and a squad that is not currently built to compete in the champions league aswell as the bundesliga currently

I was playing a career character with leverkusen yesterday, finished the season with butload of goals like top historic, when it came time to renegotiate it decided to not offer more money ($18.000) while munich was $212k. I think it literally shows what happens on real life lol

There's a mental advantage to being a champion. It could be really beneficial to their next season

I'm really glad he is staying. I'm not a Leverkusen fan by any means but more competition is better for all. Bundasliga needs a Bayer like City need a Liverpool or Madrid need a Barcelona... This could take the Bundasliga to another level IF he is able to push Bayern all next season. For me that's enough. I donno if they can repeat this season but if they can compete for the championship next season and make a respectable run in the Champions League next year this will boost the Bundesliga and the club will benefit significantly... What's more difficult; Having an huge influx of cash thrown into a team to always have the best players in the world or build a club from the ground up without that huge infusion of cash? I think the answer is obvious and i respect Alonso so much for staying and at least trying it over again next season... I believe he is just waiting for the Madrid job myself but I respect he is running it back next year with Bayer...

Good to see Xabi staying at Leverkusen next season. Too many young and upcoming managers in the past have made the jump to a big club and have failed. I believe he will be a top manager considering the great managers he has played for and being able to be a great man manager.

Please come to barcelona, man. We desperately need miracles.

Why do you REAL MADRID in your thumbnail when Madrid didn’t try and even extended Ancelotti?

As a Liverpool fan I'm glad that he's staying at Leverkusen for a few more seasons, creating his own legacy and empire as well as history for Leverkusen would be a very wise decision and then when he's finished he can consider making a move to Liverpool or Real Madrid but for the fans that are saying he's unambitious are the ones that lose their heads when their team loses 1 game or play poorly and believes everyone deserves to leave. Starting small and going big is always better than starting big and going small

4:40 Nurnburg, Hambuerg? lol 😅 I'm waiting for Mänscheßta Juneitet and FC Liwapuhl

Must be Bayern fans calling him unambitious since most Liverpool fans were sad that we didn't get to go from Klopp to Xabi, yes, but we've also seen how brutal management has been for Gerrard and the scrutiny he faced. I'm actually thrilled to see some loyalty in modern football and of course it'd be a classy man like Xabi to show it. Liverpool has had ups and downs before, we've got the most major honours in England now thanks to Klopp, we'll be fine without Xabi and maybe one day, who knows? Until then YNWA Xabi, get the Pokal and show the world you can do this again while in the Champions League 👏🏿👏🏿

Staying is the best option. You have the challenge of manage a team that already won for the next year. You have the champions league experience with the club you know and you have no pressure as you already toped every expectation.

Alonso must be eyeing Ancelotti's job

COLDDDD THUMBNAIL

glad he's staying with us, wishing him all the best

Ima huge Xabi fan. Hes a genius

Xabi made the right decision, the clubs chasing him all have cons against them right now. I think also he has something going at Bayer, he may always look back if he left and wonder what if. He may also look at managers who made the leap early and dropped off and their stock fell off.

He is clearly waiting for the Madrid job it's not rocket science lol

the Harry Kane curse helped them out a lot lol

Hope he can loan out Arda Guler so they can learn each other's methods. And both come back to the Bernabeu in the summer 25.

He's going to Madrid when Carlo leaves but yeh I agree the harder challenge will be to win the league again cause Bayen will be back.

Video on Stuttgart?

8:28 big club FC, or 'big club football club' - a club so nice, they put club twice.

Xabi Alonso knows exactly what he is doing at Leverkusen, fine let's say Liverpool or Bayern opportunity never comes again, can't he stay at Leverkusen and create more history there besides he is destined for Real Madrid. Another point to make, is that for sure next season will be tough for Leverkusen especially if they don't add players because other teams will try and study how they play and try to counter, like how Klopp did against City, but I still think he will find a away and I think Leverkusen will continue play beautiful attacking game, which will be enough to land him a job in Spanish capital even if he finishes second or third. Bayern is also not guaranteed to get back to their feet, they will have a new coach who will be testing his style of play with new players on a new team, with a lot of pressure, so I think Xabi made a best decision of staying.

Im saying all of this as a Madrid Fan... and in Bundesliga my fav team is Hamburger SV... I want Xabi to stay with Bayer because he has done wonders there and should lead that club to try to retain the title and take a shot at a UCL... The success story of Bayer is so much bigger then Leicester or Athetico in 2014... Bayer had NEVER won and on top of that they didnt win by being defensive or anti football or getting lucky... They won by trouncing teams and scoring bangers... The team played like it was fifa on semi pro and can go undefeated ... If they win the cup then its a bigger achievement then Arsenal back in the day ... And they prob will win the cup ... The way that they went about their work shows that they are 100 percent not a fluke.. and there is nothing fluky about them going from relagation zone when Xabi took over last season to finishing in 6th.. and then this year not losing a game and us knowing they would be champs in February... Writz is not a fluke.. frimpong is not a fluke.. grimaldo is not a fluke.. xhaka is not a fluke.. shick is not a fluke .. boniface is not a fluke .. hoffman is not a fluke... These are good established players or cant miss young superstars ... This team should stay together under Alonso for a few more years and see what kind of wonders that they achieve ...

I want to see more managers actually build their own legacies with different clubs, other than the big clubs.

Hoping the same happens with Amorim at Sporting! 💚

After what happened to his bestie Gerrard, I think he knows better than to jump at a job which he might not be ready for. Grow, develop, lose some key players, build again, challenge for more titles, and then leave. Madrid, Bayern are both bad options. You are expected to win the league, and reach the UCL Semis as a minimum each season. Liverpool is more relaxed in that department, but still a huge club nonetheless. He is being patient, which is so rare these days. He genuinely might be the next big thing.

Soccer, Fck Yeah! Spring Break! Chad Hogan!

Alonso wants to build something with Bayer Leverkusen. If Leverkusen proves to be very successful with Alonso's next stint, he would have more than enough experience to build bigger teams like Liverpool (would live to see him there in the future). If he wants to go, that is. If he does not, that's fine by me too.

Imagine Alonso handling Real Madrid by 2026 (theoretically keeping Vini, Rodrygo, and Belinggol) as well as having Mbappe. Man, it's over for everyone

Leverkusen is the best option. He can stay there a few seasons and become a farmer, put some german trophies in his trophy cabinet. Play in the Champions League with less pressure to win. Then when that big Real Madrid job opens, i see him taking it. It’s a win-win for him.

xavi is the next blancos manager... that man is a wise mathmatician. The squard real madrid is building now, (wow) in the next 2 seasons will be having world class in each department, both on and off the pitch.

Happy to hear that Xabi choose to stay.

I like this move. Not everything has to be about winning the big bucks and going to the top dogs right away. Plus, he can try and grow Leverkusen, just like El Cholo did for Atletico, that'd be a huge challenge in and of itself, if that's what he's going for. The prestige would be far higher, should he succeed, than winning titles or competing for titles in bigger clubs.

He chose the path with the most potential glory and I'd say he is well on his way to the destination.

Everybody knows he is DESTINED for Madrid… the undisputed most important and demanding sporting institution on Planet Earth. And honestly? it will be a beautiful thing to witness. Cheers, all.

When everyone see's them in the CL next year, you will understand what a monster Xabi created. All people saying he made a bad decision havent Seen zhem in the league this year. Currently they are so far ahead as team fron Bayern, they cant even see the backlights and they can do nothing next 2 years. Stuttgart, BVB and Leipzig will be stronger too maybe. If you really want to understand Leverkusen, watch severall Liga games. They will do the same and win.

That was the right decision. You don't leave the club that believed in you after a good season. I hope they win the UEL this season and they impress the world again in UCL. And we all know he's replacing Carlo at Real Madrid. Just like Zidane did. With as much success I hope 😆

What a hero! 👍👏

Simple. Why go to bayern when the team is at the lowest Why go to liverpool when their frachise player is 31 and declining/same goes to the liverpool team Why go to real madrid when the team is not at his peak. Still have to wait for mbappe and the whole squad to get 2/3 years to be at full potential. And dont talk to me about ManU Alonso is a smart man, always has been.

What’s the deal with the fallout bit

even as a Bayern fan I never doubted that he would stay in Leverkusen. If went to Bayern he would have to build up a squad again same with Liverpool.

Greasy agent really has some solid points LMAO

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Today we are all Leverkusen

I think the very last comment you made is actually very important. Both Xabi's and Carlo's contracts expire next year. I didn't think Xabi Alonso would want to take on the Bayern Munich position because of the pressure of moving from a young Bayern Leverkusen with moderate expectations to Bayern Munich, an aging giant who has to win now. Going to Liverpool would be even worse. Does Xabi Alonso really want to be the manager of Liverpool during such a time of transition? Xabi Alonso wants the Real Madrid job. As a matter of fact, Jeremie Frimpong and Florian Wirtz might come with Xabi Alonso to Real Madrid.

He made the right choice. He should stay with Leverkusen for another 2 or 3 seasons and dominante Bundesliga. I would like to see Leverkusen compete in the champions League even won next year champions league.

He 100% did the right thing not coming to Liverpool. Whoever comes in next has my sympathy, they won't last long here. Xabi probably wants the Madrid job and you can't blame him.

the wise choice 🌄

I think the term you might have been looking for was “jilted lover”

Look at Jaime vardy. He stayed and he has been rewarded for it

As a Liverpool fan, FSG's lack of ambition and pursuit of profits has tarnished Klopp's legacy and at a critical juncture when Liverpool could've broken through being a top 10 European side to a top 3 side along with Madrid and City! Liverpool faced Madrid in CL final with the likes of Karius, Henderson, Milner, Can, Lallana ... If they invested more early on, Liverpool could attract Halland, Mbappe or Belingham! On the year six of Klopp's reign when he's finished and the whole midfield are so old they can't run, the sold 5 and bought 4 discount ones that weren't even their first choices! This is not top club mentality! This is being richer and more famous than Southampton and doing the same scheme at a higher level and not competing with City or Madrid! Alonso is smart to stay put and develop himself and his team and wait for Madrid or City job! Or go to Bayern or PSG as they have ambition unlike Liverpool under FSG!!

I hope after anchelotti , xabi will be our new coach🤍❤️

I would love Adrian serving as my greasy agent. Man has immerse talent

As a Dortmund fan, we absolutely will lay down and stay complacent. Things are pretty bad right now. Terzic is likely to stick around even if we don’t manage top 4, and we keep whiffing hard on transfers that were supposed to replace the likes of Bellingham, etc. we’re not even playing our best young talent anymore.

Let's say his waiting for RM and have Mbappe oh also it would be after the wc so national team as well

there is a mayor problem with bayern. and thats their old power line is cut. in old times they bought great but cheap bundesliga players. but these player go now to the premier league. so bayern has to pay premier league money while beeing german payed themselfs. look at their players. and see the problem with kane. they payed alot and i mean alot of money for him. do you think they can buy 3 more of these price class ? and they need 3 more as their team is old. and need a refreshment, but thats expensive. so it will be interesting if they can renew their team :)

xabi to tottenham so they can taste the joy of winning a trophy.(jk he would ruin his managerial career with such a move)

Had to put Madrid on the thumbnail for clickbait?