Xabi Alonso to STAY at Bayer Leverkusen 👀 What does it mean for Bayern & Liverpool? | ESPN FC 

smart decision! i’m a barca fan and wish Xavi coached at smaller clubs and learn more about coaching before he came to Barca

he is a sportsman, he wants to prove himself in the CL next season and iam sure Bayer is not running out of budget regardless ,-)

ye, if Leverkusen manage to fend off the offers to their promising players I remember how Frankfurt & Wolfsburg were utterly dismantled of good players after they had a freak Bundesliga title@@ErLeuchten

@@JabbarTV1 their recruitment is so good though! Realistically, only wirtz and frimpong/grimaldo are irreplaceable (imo) in that team. I hope that he can retain the title and go far in the ucl but it will be difficult.

came here to say this, you're spot on@@ErLeuchten

Proper upset

He's so mad he said De Zerbi would do just as good a job as Alonso lolol

​@@seanocean4745Yes. Why not? De Zerbi plays even better, more daring football than Leverkusen. As a Chelsea fan, I'd love him but I'm keeping Poch. Brighton finishing sixth in the PL above Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs is just about what Leverkusen is doing. Leverkusen won't be winning the PL if they actually played this same season in England.

@@josephajibowo-wp2rw leverkusen have conceded 18 goals in the league vs Brighton’s 44. They haven’t lost a single game all season. It’s not just about attacking. De zerbi is not on Alonso’s level.

@@seanocean4745 Conceding only 18 goals is very impressive. And yes, De Zerbi football really exposes his defense to catastrophic scorelines. However, saying Alonso is in a different level to De Zerbi is plain laughable. Different level? Is it because he's winning the Bungesliga or because they are playing alien football? The fact is that Brighton is the team with the second-lowest wage bill in the PL. So talent to wage ratio, they are massively over performing. Last year, Brighton finished sixth above Chelsea, Liverpool, And Spurs. Then sold both of their best players to Liverpool and Chelsea. Since De Zerbi came to Brighton, they have average 69% possession, more than Chelsea, United, Arsenal, Liverpool. Only City had more. They are the team that took the most shots and missed the most big chances. Every thing they did is what the big teams with the super star players are supposed to be doing. Don't forget they did it with players 18 other PL teams are paying more for. They absolutely wiped the floor with Chelsea, and United home and away, Liverpool, And title chasing Arsenal 3-0 at the Emirates. They didn't just win, but taught each of those teams footballing lessons. It was common knowledge VAR robbed Brighton the most last season. I remembered Twice against Spurs. Don't forget they lost McAllister, world cup player and winner, and Caicedo, a player even Liverpool bidded 110m for. Cucurella to Chelsea for 60 million. Colwill returned from loan. If you then juxtaposed the level of competition in the PL with the Bungesliga, to say that Alonso is on a different level to De Zerbi is pretty laughable. Credit to Alonso. He's been brilliant. Actually toppling Bayern under any circumstances is pretty unbelievable.

Bayer!!!

@@P.K... I don’t care

There are very few big jobs that will come up soon. I think he's angling for the Real Madrid job.

Second hes angling for madrid, ancelotti wont be around forever. No need to settle for smaller clubs with his track record.

​@@josephajibowo-wp2rw and Ancelotti contract runs out next season 2025 so i also see that happening

Real probably available in a year? That was my thinking he has eye on Real but fits Ancelloti staying to give him time to mature as manager.

@@virupakshawalla5734 exactly as long as he keeps this up those options will always be there. He is no rush

De Zerbi has been figured out, look at his 2024 results

Just as impressive in my opinion. don't forget the level of competition he's dealing with compared to the Bungesliga. He's lost Caicedo, MacAlister to Liverpool and Chelsea. Lost Colwill as well. Lost Enciso, and March I think to Injury. That's the whole midfield. Plays he's elevated to a new level.

I mean he clearly has a style of play that suits Liverpool style, and will be dealing with better players etc. injuries and Europe have defo not helped him this season, but you can see his level with how he played last season.

He didn't loose them, he sold them, sure dezerbi cant win Bundesliga

Nothing special about that team. He's a system coach. I don't see those players thriving in highly systemic footballing teams like City and Barca. Superstars rarely work with system coaches.

​You say he's a system coach and nothing special yet go on to say Manchester City is a highly systemic team, so by your own words Guardiola is also a system coach

Yes it best to stay their why leave because u going to win the league makes no sense to go big club and fail it happens to alot of coaches good choice staying

@@Wilcoranking He was listing Real Madrid players and saying he'd make them play unbelievable football. I'm reminding him system coaches like Pep, Arteta, and Xabi Alonso rarely fit the superstar culture in Madrid. There's only one way to play with Vini, Mbappe, Bellingham, Valverde Rodrygo starting in your team: that's counter attack. Real have never played football that that people attach any stylistic appreciation to like Barca or Arsenal and now City because Perez has never appointed highly systemic coach with "a philosophy" it's always the win by whatever means like Ancelloti, Benitez, Mourinho, Zidane. It's why people never consider them heavy favourites for UCL before they win it every year. They don't appear to be the most dominant team in matches.

Exactly

3 or 4 seasons ago Dortmund were 9 points ahead of Bayern but they still blew it

​@schovo Now Leverkusen are 13 points ahead of Bayern 😂.

I think we all like mourinho lol

The Special one who doesn’t like him

Morinho says a lot of things 😂

@@Alexvee-23speak for yourself. Mourinho is a FINISHED manager who got FIRED from his last FIVE jobs.

@@Chriztefur little kid learned a new catch phrase and could not wait to use it!! 😂 😂

He's not a successful manager, He's a good young manager.

@@renoirrandy7241 Point taken.

Strange situation this since so many manager positions of top clubs become vacant at almost the same time and right in the middle is Alonso and his team having one of the best seasons in European football.

Long term, money wins. Take any match-up on any given day and the club with the higher wage bill is far more likely to win. Sure, in the short term you can have a surprise run like Saarbrücken in the DFB-Pokal or even a season where you beat the much richer club, but what happens after an overperformance? For one, regression to the mean, but more importantly all the players that overperformed will be poached from all corners of the continent. So if you want to win trophies as a manager, you have to move to a big club. When Leverkusen eventually fall off next season, Xabi Alonso won't have the negotiation power he has now. Just look at Mourinho in contrast: He had one special season at Porto and he leveraged that into massive clubs where he could be a bad manager coasting on house money. It took decades for people figuring out that he has always been a fraud with only one lucky season.

Bruh, those Liverpool fans were being sarcastic.

Liverpool fans are so entitled and delusional. 😂😂 They keep saying he's a Liverpool legend as if he doesn't have ties to Madrid and Bayern. The self-centered nature of the English is insane. 😂

Why are you crying 😂. Clwn united fan

@@keystone6162 I don't think any Liverpool fans have said that he wasn't a legend in other clubs or that even he's never played for other teams.....

Southgate is a United manager, get him in 😊

Because aren't looking for a manager but more than likely Ancelotti will be gone in a year or so

@@user-tw3re9hg3j yh but he was saying like xabi would’ve regret passing on this opportunities as though Madrid was available and he passed on Madrid

You most be deaf he didn't say he did not want him okay

*Xabi

@@Jamesed76 thank you

@@Samouraimoh 🙂

Manchester united bro

@@giancarlocrumps7564😂 good one

@@giancarlocrumps7564can’t be. Gareth Southgate will take the job first 😂

@@giancarlocrumps7564 You can't even look at the face of a finished barca side😂😂

@@obioraokoye4377the be a side United rinsed last season home and away?

I also think Alonso backs himself in this project with Leverkusen. He's taken moderately good players and turned them into a killer machine. Sure, Wirtz is turning into the real deal. But would he have anywhere else under any other manager or in *that* system?

Fr. Wait to go manage an elite team that looks to be getting even better in the next year...or a Liverpool side that will very likely lose VVD and Salah within the next year and will need to be rejigged. He'll pull a Zidane and good on him for it.

He's Madrid's coach through and through.

@@sabalipeaceandpatience9264 yeah 🤍

Southgate's favorite captain Maguire is at which club?

Ralf Rangnick is not the best friend of Hoeness. And thats a problem. FC Bayern is in madhouse mode, so Rangnick is 65. And Alonso will be in Leverkusen next season as well and thats might be the reason for Nr. 2 in next season as well for Bayern. Bayern has not the best image anymore, because Kahn destroyed a lot in the past

why would u get Ragnick when Mourinho is available

@@Freestyle80 Less toxic, worked in germany decades, no language issues, less of an ego.

These pundits only know him from his time at Man Utd where he never got a real chance. A joke of a club.

@@nursultansaljakbaj9401that’s right. People not following German football don‘t know that Bayern is currently in one of the most important transition periods in their history after Hoeneß and Rummenigge stepped down. So far this process has been terrible. Not the best time and environment for a new manager to come in and getting top results, especially for a young and still somewhat inexperienced manager like Nagelsmann.

"Did it surprise you he decided to stay at the club despite us making rumors he should leave?"

@@junewalker9341 No it didn't surprise me at all. Alonso looks a smart young guy (from a management perspective). Older Liverpool fans will know when Dalglish quit in 1991, they still had a great squad but brought in former captain Graeme Souness from Rangers, he made changes too quickly and Liverpool lost their status as the number 1 team in the country. Souness was too inexperienced. I don't know who Liverpool will get as manager now but hopefully someone experienced with Champions Leage knowledge, and plays attacking football.

@@BurnsTennisYou entirely missed the sarcasm didn't you?

Obviously I did whatever it was. Not a mind reader of what goes on in your head :-)

Madrid never won a treble

De Zerbi is on a different level to Rodgers.

LOL dude, everybody can see that Liverpool FC lives rent-free in your empty head. Obsessed much? Maybe try leaving your mama's basement and getting a life instead, ok?

LOL dude, everybody can see that Liverpool FC lives rent-free in your empty head. Obsessed much? Maybe try leaving your mama's basement and getting a life instead, ok?

🤣🤣🤣🤣. Man if only this were true.

If you had any brain, you'd know that that can never happen. Lfc ain't hiring no English man

Southgate is wanted by United and he is perfect for them

I don’t think anyone is

Why would he want to go in such a small club who has 0 European history?

Why would he go to a small club like PSG that always get knocked out in the UCL and only win French tittles Btw PSG are about to bottle europe again In the Quartar finals

​@@nadirchahboun379 Who do you think PSG are? Citing PSG of the past won't help your argument. Because the PSG of now has a goal to obtain, a dignity, and integrity to fight for. Our rejuvenation will show it's worth on this UCL run. Barka should consider bailing out before they suffer another 8-2 defeat. 😂😂😂

@@nadirchahboun379 after mbappe leaves no one would even notice them. Such a small club

Thomas Frank doesn’t quite have the crazy personality but is very tactical and improves his players a lot like klopp

Klopp has a body of work already. It's like saying people would be put off if Pep don't win nothing in next two years.

Manchester United rising from the ashes with who? Eric Eras come to an end Seven Haag? 😂😂😂 i don't know how you got VVD is leaving, you're a Manchester United fan of course you're gonna believe every rumor

@@Royale0055 4-3. Hold it.

Can he make sandwiches?

Better to task Pep waiting for Alonso

Good ebening.

His english is fine.