Xabi Alonso announced Friday that at the end of the season he will end his stage as coach of Bayer Leverkusen. “The club and I have agreed that these are my last two games at the head of the team. We believe that it is time to leave and that today it was the right time to communicate it,” the coach said at a press conference, which is presented as the great candidate to occupy the Real Madrid bench if the exit of Carlo Ancelotti is confirmed. Tolosarra avoided, however, talk about his future. “It is not the time for that. It is time for some players and I have a good farewell on Sunday against Dortmund,” he said.
Alonso’s contract with the Leverkusen was extended one more season, but the CEO of the club, the Spanish Fernando Carro, already recognized three weeks ago in an act in Madrid that there was “a pact of gentlemen” between both parties to find an exit in the event that there is an interest of “a team in which he has played”.
According to the German medium Kickerthe Basque coach informed the players, before training, that his cycle in the entity will end at the end of the course and that he would say it publicly in his appearance planned for the end of the morning. Alonso, 43, arrived at Leverkusen in October 2022 and last season he took the entity to the first Bundesliga in its history. This has also been his first experience as a coach in a large league, after passing through the Madrid quarry and the Real Sociedad subsidiary.
All the roads of Tolosarra now point to Bernabéu, the great one indicated in the offices to happen to Ancelotti. The contacts between the club and the coach started months ago, although the time of the Union is subject to the outcome of the League, where Madrid exhausts this Sunday against Barcelona in Montjuïc its latest title options (it is four points in the absence of four days).
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