Former world-class striker Raúl is traded in Spain as one of the candidates for the coaching position at the German football runner-up Bayer Leverkusen.
As the Marca and Mundo Deportivo report, the 48-year-old belongs to the list of those who, as the successor to Erik Ten HAG released on Monday (September 1, 2025). Accordingly, Raúl was mentioned in “several conversations” of the Leverkusen club tour as one of the options.
Raúl knows the Bundesliga Already from his time as a professional at Schalke 04 (2010 to 2012), allegedly the Spaniard was also a coach at the royal blue at the beginning of the year.
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As a coach, he already gained experience at Real Madrid: Raúl trained the U19 of the royal and won the Youth League in 2020, from 2019 to this summer he was also a coach of the second team. Since then, the three-time Champions League winner has been without a job.
2022 had Leverkusen The Xabi Alonso, which was comparatively inexperienced at the time, committed the first double in the club’s history two years later. Alonso has been training the first team of Reals since summer.
Marco Rose or Edin Terzic are also mentioned as candidates at the factory club. First, Ten Hag’s ex-assistant leads training. After the international break, Bayer meets Eintracht Frankfurt (September 12, 8.30 p.m./Sky).
