The decision that came from Alonso certainly surprised everyone not least Liverpool and Bayern Munich who have been quite confident that they can sign Alonso at the end of the season, I think so far Alonso is the main target of some big teams after all his incredible achievements in Leverkusen at the moment, to be honest, I think Alonso will leave at the end of the season
After the previous meeting between Alonso and Munich representatives, in that meeting of course Munich will make a fantastic offer for Alonso if he is willing to move to Munich next season and Alonso's silence after a lot of speculation certainly indicates if he might agree to coach Munich
But now that he has confirmed this, of course everything is quite clear and Alonso's decision to stay at Leverkusen is the right decision, now Leverkusen has achieved something that is indeed quite proud, but I think there is still a lot of work to be done by Alonso in Leverkusen at the moment, besides that with Leverkusen playing in the Champions League of course Alonso has the opportunity to extend his list of records and successes in Coaching, so that when he succeeds of course he will be juxtaposed with top coaches like Mourinho, Guardiola, Zidane and Ancelloti, besides that not only Liverpool and Munich will queue up to ask him to coach but I think all the big European teams will ask him to coach later if Alonso can repeat Leverkusen success this season next season.
Currently, Leverkusen's consistency has put them in the top contending spots for the Bundesliga title. And it's so certain with just few games games to determine the victor, there's every certainty that there will be change of hands this season. Definitely they've held and will hold onto the pressure for a while and for Leverkusen, they are not resilient in pursuing that major aim. Alonso and his squad aren't giving up and weekly they put up a whole different energy towards that trophy race.
Comparing Xabi's abiliy based on his performances with his team, it'll be fair to admit his superiority in skillset. Leverkusen when Xabi took over had to start from scratch to build up to where they are now. So far Xabi, he has been a good boss and his methods have worked perfectly for Leverkusen. One would wonder how he managed to put up such feat for the team considering the spot he picked them from. It's one quality that can definitely be found in a good manager.
Leverkusen have been impressive in all rounds and it's not surprising that they're now better than some already grounded teams. It only means that Xabi has a unique managing quality which can be of essence in bigger teams too. I believe he's still got good plans for the German team, which will still be manifested good. In the Europa League, there's been top contending teams from the start till the current stage of the contest.
Even though days back, the playoffs stage was concluded and there we saw few teams earn advancement tickets. Well from the beginning of the tournament, we know that it'll only be the tough teams that'd survive. Also predicting the winner this season would be hard as there are a number of tough teams to pick from. The highest we can do is to just analyze these teams based on their overtime performances this season and bringing that in the picture, the highest probable winner would be Leverkusen, then Liverpool and any other team behind. In essence it's safe to say that if the draws are favourable, then Liverpool would battle with Leverkusen in the final game of the tournament.