The Bayer Leverkusen Post
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 The request is on a desk at Bayer Leverkusen, and it is not being withdrawn.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
Mateo Benegas gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Mateo Benegas has just signed for Bayer Leverkusen, and for once the answer mattered.
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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Bayer Leverkusen
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Lukas Ludwig joins the Bayer Leverkusen first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lukas Ludwig 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
Hans Lorenz steps up from the Bayer Leverkusen academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hans Lorenz 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Matthias Meyer joins the Bayer Leverkusen first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matthias Meyer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Bayer Leverkusen are making the ground bigger
Work is signed off on a capacity of 41757. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mateo Benegas still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Bayer Leverkusen would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
In brief
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Mateo Benegas
- Squad Exequiel Palacios is starting to look at home