Markus Becker

Defensive Midfielder - Bayer Leverkusen
5 Aug 2043
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Markus Becker

880 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

8 Jun 2043
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Bayer Leverkusen put the manager on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad

Mirkó Bozó breaks a bone — 155 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 155 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Bernardo Fernandes has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bayer Leverkusen they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Jarell Quansah in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bayer Leverkusen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Markus Becker for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Bayer Leverkusen will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Market

The Otis Caporusso conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Eintracht Frankfurt will make the call about Otis Caporusso this week. Bayer Leverkusen have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

Back issues
829 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

16 Jun 2042
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Abdoulaye Faye damages knee ligaments — 65 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 65 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Bayer Leverkusen are in real trouble now

Position 16, 20 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Nikita Kokarev 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.

Market

Markus Becker hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bayer Leverkusen can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Bayer Leverkusen

Jarell Quansah 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.

Squad

Words at Bayer Leverkusen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Montrell Culbreath is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief