Jonas Hofmann

Central Midfielder - Bayer Leverkusen
11 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jonas Hofmann

9 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Jonas Omlin breaks a bone — 83 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Both of them Aleix García's — 8.21

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.21, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Aleix García the difference as Bayer Leverkusen beat Union Berlin

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Aleix García. 3‑1 against Union Berlin, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

One of their own: Bilal El Khannouss

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

Equi Fernández wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

A row about effort at Bayer Leverkusen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miguel Gutiérrez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bayer Leverkusen

Guéla Doué and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings

Moussa Diaby was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Robert Böhm: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑1, already talking about the next one.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Bayer Leverkusen Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Jonas Omlin out for 91 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bayer Leverkusen will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Real improvement from Ibrahim Maza at Bayer Leverkusen

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ibrahim Maza is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Loïc Badé 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.

Match

Bayer Leverkusen see off TSG Hoffenheim

Three points for Bayer Leverkusen, 1‑0 the final word against TSG Hoffenheim in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Serge Gnabry takes the honours

Marked 7.59 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Bayer Leverkusen had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

Robert Andrich 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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Robert Böhm, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Squad

Moussa Diaby wants out of the spotlight

The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.

Player ratings

The afternoon ran through Jonas Hofmann

Chances created: 10. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.

In brief