The Bayer Leverkusen Post
Match11 Sep 2027
Bayer Leverkusen taken apart
0‑4 to TSG Hoffenheim, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market13 Sep 2027
Jarell Quansah puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bayer Leverkusen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market13 Sep 2027
Kaiserslautern come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Bayer Leverkusen did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
David Schubert keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bayer Leverkusen may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market13 Sep 2027
Loïc Badé wants more than Bayer Leverkusen are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Miguel Gutiérrez signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Miguel Gutiérrez commits to Bayer Leverkusen for another 5 years.
Market13 Sep 2027
Eliesse Ben Seghir’s move to Eintracht Braunschweig falls through
The deal that would have taken Eliesse Ben Seghir to Eintracht Braunschweig has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Bayer Leverkusen with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Marco Asensio falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The step up is real for Farid Alfa-Ruprecht
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
In brief
- Transfer targets Door shut on Antonín Kinský
- The dugout No hiding place for Facundo Medina
- Boardroom Doors closed at Bayer Leverkusen