The Bayer Leverkusen Post
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Niklas Lomb
107 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bayer Leverkusen lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Aug 2026
Bayer Leverkusen say no — this time
The offer from SC Freiburg for Janis Blaswich was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market24 Aug 2026
Niklas Lomb 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 The request is on a desk at Bayer Leverkusen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Bayer Leverkusen
Exequiel Palacios was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bayer Leverkusen lose Robert Andrich
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Pedro Augusto gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Pedro Augusto has just signed for Bayer Leverkusen, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Bayer Leverkusen
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Anton Lang joins the Bayer Leverkusen first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anton Lang is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2026
Dominik Schäfer steps up from the Bayer Leverkusen academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dominik Schäfer has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Boardroom Bayer Leverkusen are making the ground bigger
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Pedro Augusto