A difficult and challenging task is waiting for the new trainer of Bayer Leverkusen. First of all, he somehow has to make it to at least fill out the oversized footsteps that master and doubles Xabi Alonso left. And then the actual work starts: Defense chief Jonathan Tah must be replaced. A change from super player Florian Wirtz to Munich is becoming more and more emerging. So there is also a replacement. Many construction sites that need to be processed.
This task comes too early for Sandro Wagner. He is a talented trainer. With Unterhaching, in the summer of 2023, he made the leap from the fourth to the third division and at the DFB he knew how to convince as an assistant to the German U20, otherwise he would not have been an assistant coach under Julian Nagelsmann. Wagner should also be incredibly popular with the players.
But the step to Leverkusen, now this summer – he would expect too much. Sandro Wagner should initially start at least half a floor (RB Leipzig) or even an entire floor deeper (Wolfsburg) to earn more spores – and then switch to an absolute top club.
And Bayer Leverkusen? There you have to think carefully about whether you want to do it with Alonso as like two and a half years ago and give an absolute coaching novice a chance. Always with the question in mind whether it can go as well as with the Spaniard.
Erik Ten HAG and CESC Fabregas are currently being traded at Werkelf. Ten HAG would be the “adult” solution. He celebrated some success with Ajax Amsterdam, was then at Manchester United, but rather luckless there. But: Before that, he was a coach of the second team at Bayern, so he already knows German football.
Fabregas would be a solution like Alonso back then. He is a coaching vice, was only an assistant at the Italian first division club Como in 1907, and then became head coach there last year. However, he has one thing ahead of Wagner: Among other things, he became world and European champions, putting a world career like Xabi Alonso, and has experienced everything as a professional at Arsenal, Barcelona or Chelsea. Advantages to make the direct jump to a top club. Advantages that Sandro Wagner does not have.