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Gambling discussion / Re: Germany - Bundesliga League Prediction Thread - 2023/24 ⚽
« Last post by KingsDen on Today at 11:23:41 PM »To think that Xabi Alonso before he became Bayer Leverkusen manager haven't managed the first team of any club in Europe is a big reason why he should be getting more praises than he's currently getting at the moment. Few years ago in one of the interviews of Jose Mourinho, he highlighted what will later become a reality about Xabi Alonso and how he thinks he'll be the most successful manager among every footballer he's managed. According to Jose Mourinho, he said that for Xabi to have played under Rafael Benitez, Pep Guardiola, Carlo Ancelotti and himself, he'll surely become a successful manager in the nearest future and that's what we've seen from the young Spanish manager. Xabi Alonso's incredible performance at Bayer Leverkusen is a demonstration of years of learning from the best managers in world football and that's the reason why I think we are yet to experience the best of Xabi Alonso as a football managerLeverkusen became a very solid team after being handled by Xabi Alonso. If we remember Xabi's first season managing this team, they were also able to move from the bottom until in the end they were able to get a place in the Europa League.
This season they started the season with Xabi Alonso and as we can see now, they have not had a losing record for a season, at least until now. This is a very good record, even Bayern Munich, who dominate the league, as far as I remember, have never recorded the same results as Leverkusen recorded this season.
It's fair to say that Leverkusen's performance under Xabi exceeded all expectations. There were rumours about him moving to a bigger club after the end of this season (Bayern and Liverpool were mentioned) but he confirmed he'll be staying for another year.
They're playing a potentially tough game tomorrow against 3rd Stuttgard (at home) and have an away game against Eintracht, who are currently at 5th place. I wonder if they'll have enough motivation to approach those at 100%, given they have nothing to play for other than beating the record of the most points in a season and adding to their streak of games without a loss.