Patrick Simon

Goalkeeper - Levski
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705 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

30 Jan 2040
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom30 Jan 2040

Pressure builds in the Bayer Leverkusen boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad30 Jan 2040

Tiago Poller: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bayer Leverkusen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market30 Jan 2040

Bayer Leverkusen say no — this time

The offer from Werder Bremen for Artem Stepanov 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.

Player ratings30 Jan 2040

Age has not caught Mert Kömür yet — 8.03

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.03 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad30 Jan 2040

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.

Market30 Jan 2040

Patrick Simon 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 The request is on a desk at Bayer Leverkusen, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad30 Jan 2040

Loïc Badé 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.

Squad30 Jan 2040

The manager makes an example of Loïc Badé

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings30 Jan 2040

Uroš Sremčević runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

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704 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

23 Jan 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad23 Jan 2040

Miguel Gouveia keeps Bayer Leverkusen in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings23 Jan 2040

Age has not caught Abdoulaye Faye yet — 8.34

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.34 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market23 Jan 2040

Only the photograph left for Artem Stepanov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Stepanov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bayer Leverkusen the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market23 Jan 2040

Francesco D'Alterio 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.

Squad23 Jan 2040

Exequiel Palacios 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.

Squad23 Jan 2040

Words at Bayer Leverkusen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nnamdi Collins 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.

Market23 Jan 2040

Patrick Simon’s move to Werder Bremen falls through

The deal that would have taken Patrick Simon to Werder Bremen 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.

Squad23 Jan 2040

No hiding place for Nikita Kokarev

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Kokarev, and the manager let it.

Match21 Jan 2040

Bayer Leverkusen see off FC Augsburg

Three points for Bayer Leverkusen, 2‑0 the final word against FC Augsburg in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief