Bayer Leverkusen found his successor to Xabi Alonso after “Kicker” information. The official announcement should not be long in coming, it is said.
Erik Ten Hag is becoming the new head coach of Bayer Leverkusen, according to the “Kicker”. Both sides have therefore fundamentally agreed on cooperation. The deal with the Dutch is only a matter of form, according to Saturday evening at the journal.
According to the report, Ten HAG and the Bayer managers have already agreed on the term of the new employment contract. Manchester United’s former team manager should sign on the Rhine for two years, it is said. The contracting work is said to have been lashed in the past few days, but the club’s final decision was still missing.
The 55-year-old is said to have been one of the top candidates at Bayer Leverkusen at the beginning of Xabi Alonso-together with CESC Fabregas from Como 1907. However, an obligation by the former World Casser player ultimately did not come about, after the final cancellation you focused fully at Ten HAG.
Erik Ten Hag has Bayern past
On Friday evening, the Italian transfer reporter Fabrizio Romano had already reported that Ten Hag has now given the green light to move to Bayer Leverkusen.
Erik Ten HAG was a coach of Bayern Munich II from 2013 to 2015, and internationally, he made a name for himself as a success coach by Ajax Amsterdam (2017 to 2022). As a team manager of Manchester United, he went through more depths than heights from July 2022 in 2024, on October 28, 2024 he was released from the Red Devils.
In Leverkusen, where he has to compete with Xabi Alonso, he would be the third Dutch head coach in the club’s history after Rinus Michels and Peter Bosz.