Loïc Badé

Central Defender - Bayer Leverkusen
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Marked for Loïc Badé

15 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Loïc Badé shuts the door

Defensive actions: 34, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Edmond Tapsoba was immovable

31 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

A defender's afternoon for Aleix García

Defensive actions: 31. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Match7 Nov 2026

7 matches without a win for Bayer Leverkusen

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Bayer Leverkusen are no longer polite ones.

Squad9 Nov 2026

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.

Match7 Nov 2026

Bayer Leverkusen cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Malik Tillman runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Karim Konaté gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Lucas Vázquez dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

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13 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Nothing got past Edmond Tapsoba

41 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Loïc Badé was immovable

38 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Nothing got past Aleix García

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 34 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad26 Oct 2026

A one-man rearguard from Mark Flekken

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match24 Oct 2026

5 matches without a win for Bayer Leverkusen

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Bayer Leverkusen are no longer polite ones.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Bayer Leverkusen

Patrik Schick 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Patrik Schick

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

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Malik Tillman

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Patrik Schick is still paying for one afternoon at Bayer Leverkusen

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

10 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Robert Andrich was immovable

29 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Somebody wants to buy Bayer Leverkusen

Nothing has been signed and nothing has been denied. Supporters who have lived through one of these before know the quiet part lasts months and the loud part lasts a week.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Exequiel Palacios runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Nothing got past Loïc Badé

26 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Daniil Khudyakov at Bayer Leverkusen

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniil Khudyakov is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad5 Oct 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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad7 Sep 2026

Lucas Vázquez breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Jonas Hofmann, 34, rolls back the years — 8.01

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.01 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market7 Sep 2026

Malik Tillman raises the bar for Bayer Leverkusen

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bayer Leverkusen heard it as anything else.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Ibrahim Maza is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Patrik Schick 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.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

A masterclass from Loïc Badé

Marked 9.63 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

One of those days for Exequiel Palacios

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.82, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match5 Sep 2026

Loïc Badé sends Bayer Leverkusen past Heidenheim

It finished 2‑0, and it was Loïc Badé’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bayer Leverkusen.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Martin Terrier

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

1 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Aleix García raises the bar for Bayer Leverkusen

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bayer Leverkusen heard it as anything else.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Lucas Vázquez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Vázquez and Bayer Leverkusen agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market3 Aug 2026

Eyes on Eliesse Ben Seghir again

The phone has started ringing about Eliesse Ben Seghir again, and this time the name on the line is SC Freiburg. Bayer Leverkusen are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Loïc Badé asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market3 Aug 2026

The Patrik Schick question follows Bayer Leverkusen around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Patrik Schick’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief