Xabi Alonso to leave Bayer Leverkusen: Real Madrid likely next for Spanish manager, per multiple reports

The Spanish manager Xabi Alonso has announced that he will leave Bayer Leverkusen at the end of the 2024-25 season. This is preceded by the manager who becomes a member of Real Madrid according to multiple reports. Alonso, who coached the German side in the past three years since he was joined in October 2022, won the Bundesliga title 2023-24 with Bayer Leverkusen, the first in the history of the club. It is now expected that he replaces Carlo Ancelotti in Real Madrid, whereby the Italian manager is said to leave the Spanish giants before the summer to join Brazil as the new head coach of the national team.

Although Real Madrid still has to make an announcement about the future of their management role, Xabi Alonso has announced its future during the press conference before the match prior to the Borussia Dortmund competition, the last of the season that will take place in their home stadium, in the Bayenara.

“The club and I have been agreed that these two games will be my last as Bayer Leverkusen coach,” he said during the press conference. “I am great thanks to Bayer Leverkusen, my players and staff, all employees of the club and last but not least the fantastic fans. Our success was the result of an excellent team performance. This club, which showed exceptional confidence in me, very deserved to win the German League title for the first time.”

“Together with Xabi Alonso we have written a success story by winning the league title without defeat in a way that is not seen in German football,” said Werner Wenning, chairman of the shareholders’ committee at Bayer. “He was an excellent ambassador as a coach at all times for both our club and for the entire Bundesliga. That is why we are very grateful to Xabi Alonso.”

Fernando Carro, as CEO, emphasized the sporting reputation that Bayer 04 has gained in the past two and a half seasons, both at home and abroad: “Bayer 04 has achieved permanent recognition in the football world in the football world through the targeted success under Xabi Alonso. Proud Carro.

As a manager, Xabi Alonso, in addition to winning the Bundesliga title of 2023-24 Bundesliga with Bayer Leverkusen, also won the 2024 DFB Pokal and the German Supercup 2024, and only loses against Atalanta in the 2023-24 Europe-Europe Final BeenKoodbanken. Alonso started his management career in 2018 at Real Madrid, where he coached the youth team Infantil A of the club before he coached the second team of Real Sociedad until the summer of 2022.

In October of the same year, Bayer Leverkusen named Alonso to become their new head coach and started what would be one of the most exciting chapters in recent years everywhere in Europe. As a Player, Xabi Alonso won the Uefa Champions League Twice, in 2005 with Liverpool and in 2014 with real madrid, the fifa world cup in 2010 with Spain, UEFA European Championships Twice in 2008 and 2012, One la Bunsla Tigla Madrid Madrid Bayern Munich and Multiple Domestic Cups with Liverpool, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich about His Career, Making Him One of the Most iconic midfielders in the recent history of sport.