Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen win the Bundesliga tittle
Bayer Leverkusen have won the Bundesliga title for the first time in their history with five games to spare.
Xabi Alonso, in his first full season in charge, achieved the impossible, masterminding one of the greatest seasons in European football history.
Leverkusen set to break Bayern’s record.
bayer Leverkusen is all set to break the most point record in the Bundesliga, which is set by Bayern Munich, five more games to go and bayer Leverkusen is looking like a beast under Xavi Alonso. Even Bayern at his very best could not hold this team.
Alex Grimaldo is the best free transfer signings Bayer Leverkusen has ever made. There is the leadership of Granit Xhaka, and he has given Leverkusen that balance on the Pich that holding the team together attitude and the glorious gifts of the precocious Florian Wirtz.
Xabi the magician
when Alonso was appointed in October Leverkusen were 2nd last in the points table of Bundesliga.
After 18 months Leverkusen is the best team of Germany 43 games into the campaign, they remain unbeaten in all competitions, it is no longer outlandish to suggest that they could well be the best team in European football.
Perfect addition for Bayer Leverkusen
The turnaround had already begun but the summer was crucial. It was not just that Leverkusen bought brilliantly, although they did, it was that Alonso was able to identify the exact characteristics that he needed to take this team to the next level.
Speaking to Lothar Matthaus earlier this season, he recognised this. “Before, they were working with only the young generation. Now Xabi has thought, I don’t need the young generation player, I want to win a title, and for this I need experience.”
Matthaus added: “I think the Leverkusen people who signed the players had been listening to Xabi and made the perfect transfer window. The summer preparation was the key for him to change the team, change the mentality, with these experienced players.”
Xhaka, now 31, has been a revelation in midfield. Jonas Hofmann, also 31, was another sensible signing. But some of the other signings were visionary. Boniface, plucked from Belgium, swiftly scored seven goals in his first five Bundesliga appearances.
Grimaldo has been the most outrageous of the lot. Snaffled away from Benfica, the 28-year-old left-back reinvented as a creative wizard and goal-getter – only Boniface has scored more. “And to think he was a free transfer,” says Kirsten.
“You have to give the scouting department or whoever discovered him, you have to take your hat off to them. or more such article
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