The Bayer Leverkusen Post
Market1 Mar 2027
Malik Tillman wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Bayer Leverkusen hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Malik Tillman wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Bayer Leverkusen can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Bayer Leverkusen
Loïc Badé 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
Bayer Leverkusen come up short against VfB Stuttgart
VfB Stuttgart left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match27 Feb 2027
The run is over for Bayer Leverkusen
6 matches without defeat, and then VfB Stuttgart. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Mark Flekken
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mark Flekken, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Miguel Gutiérrez 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Bayer Leverkusen promote Leon Lehmann from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Leon Lehmann has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market1 Mar 2027
One of our own: Robert Lang joins the Bayer Leverkusen first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Robert Lang is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Matthias Heinrich steps up from the Bayer Leverkusen academy
- The dugout Jonas Schmidt: “No excuses”
- The dugout Loïc Badé gets picked when it counts