Xabi Alonso announces his departure from Bayer Leverkusen at the end of the season Football Sport
Xabi Alonso announced on Friday that this will be his last season as Bayer Leverkusen coach. “We and I called that this is my last two matches at the head of the team. We believe that the time has come to leave and that today it was the appropriate time to communicate with him.” Avoid Toulosara, however, talking about his future. “This was not the time for that. Yes, some players and have good farewell (from the fans) on Sunday against Dortmund,” he said in English.
Alonso had signed with another LEVERKUSEN campaign, but the club’s CEO, Fernando Carro, already recognized on April 21 in a work in Madrid who is present “Gentlemen Agreement” Between the two parties to find a departure if there is an interest in “a team in which I played (Eibar, Real Sociedad, Liverpool, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich). Then the leader established a period of about three or four weeks to clarify the situation, as it was.
According to the German means KickerThe Basque coach informed the players, before the training, that his session in the entity will end at the end of the tournament, and this would make him formally in the planned appearance at the end of the morning, before the last day of the German League, which no longer has championship options, and the last that he will play at home. Alonso, 43, fell in Leverkusen in October 2022, and in the first show, he removed a team of desired positions to European positions, an introduction to great success in the last campaign: the first league in the history of the entity and without losing any match, and the title of the Cup in the European League in a perfect path. This year, he was already ranked second from the Bundesliga and in the Champions League he was eliminated by Bayern. This experience in Germany was the first for him in a great league, after it passed through the Real Madrid and the real subsidiary company. In recent weeks, Alonso has always wiped additional questions from the press about his future, which was not the time, until Friday’s announcement.
The club’s World Cup intensity
All Tolosarra methods now refer to Bernabéu, where he played between 2009 and 2014 and directed by Carlo Ancelotti in his last year before leaving to Bayern Munich. The contacts between the club and the coach started months ago, although Al -Ittihad is undergoing the results of the league, as Madrid exhausted on Sunday against Barcelona in Montaguick, the last options in the title (it is four points in the absence of four days). In parallel, Carletto has held many talks in recent weeks with the Brazilian Federation to take over the responsibility of the national team Kanaren her If your farewell from Madrid is finally determined.
Alonso explained that Leverkusen closed his farewell this week, which comes “at a good moment.” “There is now clarity to enjoy until the last minute. Clarity is useful to everyone,” said Basque. “We have to enjoy and play the best of our power on Sunday, and we hope for good feelings,” he added.
Its last match in Germany will be on Saturday, May 17, at home against Mainz, and the European Madrid tournament will continue in another week, in the league against Real Sociedad. It should be, in advance, the maximum to know the future of the white seat. If everything indicates that Xabi Alonso inherits Carlo Ancelotti’s position, it will be necessary to resolve whether he will take over immediately, or from the club’s World Cup that will be held in the United States between June 14 and July 13, or if he would do so already in the Prison Express campaign for the next campaign. In this case, the Maring team will have to resort to a temporary technician. The inclusion of the new championship in the calendar at the end of the usual season of the clubs presented another element of uncertainty in management and decision -making on the Madrid seat. What no longer is the end of Xabi Alonso in Leverkusen.
