Xabi Alonso Nor did he want to release pledge about his future at today's press conference, but Bayer Leverkusen works stealthily in search of a substitute in the event that the Basque coach finally decides to leave and sign for Real Madrid.
According to the German magazine Kickerthe Spanish Fernando Car and Simon Rolfes, CEO and sports director respectively of the Leverkusen, have anticipated the events and already practically closed an agreement with Erik ten Hag, Former coach of Utrecht, Ajax and Manchester United, which was dismissed in October 2024.
The conversations are very advanced and everything indicates that Ten Hag will become the relief of Xabi Alonsoof whom Kicker assures that “Your departure is expected to become official no later than this season.”
Ten Hag was dismissed by Manchester United in October 2024
Curiously Ten Hag, 55 years oldbegan his career as a coach in the second team of Bayern Munich between 2013 and 2015, the main rival of Leverkusen in the hegemony of German football, and a name was made in the 2018-19 season, when he won the Eredivisie but above all he reached the semifinals of the Champions League after eliminating Real Madrid in the eighth with a historical 1-4 in the Bernabéu.
Despite winning the Ajax in London by 0-1 in the first leg of the semifinals, the Tottenham traced in Amsterdam (2-3) and qualified for the final, in which it fell to Liverpool in the Metropolitan of Madrid (2-0).
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Ten Hag won three times Erdivisie with Ajax between January 2018 and May 2022, when it was hired by el Manchester United. In Old Trafford he achieved a glass of the League in 2023 and the FA Cup in 2024, although, except in his first season, his career in general was disappointing in the Premier League.
