Leverkusen is a club that has caught my eye for next season. Last season they started off on an unfavorable footing for them, but they slowly picked themselves up, and towards the end of the season they lost their balance again by going winless in their last 5 matches.
In their last friendly match, Leverkusen also failed to win, but I won't jump to conclusions, because this is a friendly match that is meant to see the strength of the squad not see the final result of the match.
They must not make the same mistakes at the start of the season, the article is detrimental to them because they have to try hard to move up in the standings.
Alonso must be able to build a solid foundation, be it in defense, midfield or attack, he must also be able to ensure that he has an even squad depth between the main players and the second layer.
I think that last season Leverkusen did look pretty decent, but their strength was unstable so they couldn't maintain their best performance, Leverkusen did attract attention, but they were quite proud of being ranked 6th in the standings last season, that's a good thing in my opinion and Alonso just needs to improve again to be even better, but indeed the increase must be quite hard, considering that his competitors are getting tougher and of course also getting stronger.
friendly matches is a period of adjustment for players again and seeing how things develop, it's not ethical to see the conclusion of a friendly match, to be honest I want to see how effective the foundation that Alonso has made this summer, I hope not to disappoint his fans.
Actually, if you look at Xabi's achievements, it is very good, not quite good in my opinion.
See how destroyed they were in the Seoane Era and with the presence of Xabi, they became more different and returned to the top 6.
Although if you look at the comparison of this season and the previous season they have regressed in terms of position, but when talking about their condition that managed to come back to life after the change of coach it was one of the brilliant things because they pushed from a position in the relegation zone.
Xabi's first season for the new coach was actually very creditable.