Who becomes Leverkusen coach? Check candidates

Bayer Leverkusen recorded more than 30 transfer movements this summer. But the most important newcomer is still imminent.

After the early end of coach Erik Ten Hag, Bayer club chiefs now have to find an experienced coach that can give this new team a new profile and is able to work in a team.

Fàbregas: Como doesn’t let him go

Many names are currently circulating in the media. For example, there would be CESC Fàbregas (38), whose current Como association 1907, last season, does not want to let his trainer go. The Spaniard was trained in Barcelona, ​​Italy is his first coaching station.

XAVI: Cancellation to Bayer

His compatriot Xavi (45) is also called. He started his coaching career at FC Barcelona. The collaboration ended last summer before Hansi Flick took over. According to the Spanish newspaper “Marca”, the coach that is currently unifying coach is said to have already canceled.

Rose: He knows the league

There is also speculation about Marco Rose. After his three stations at Borussia Mönchengladbach, Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig, the 48-year-old knows the league and has already shown several times that he can lead teams and especially young players.

Schmidt and Terzic: Are they the right ones?

There is also about a return from Roger Schmidt (58, since August 2024 without a club, previously Benfica Lisbon) and Edin Terzic (42). Terzic has also been without a club since the summer of 2024 since his voluntary resignation at Borussia Dortmund.

Ten HAG was mainly released in Leverkusen due to a lack of clarity in building a new team that needs orientation. So it had sport-Managing Director Simon Rolfes communicates. Whether Schmidt, whose first Bayer guest game (2014-17) was also shaped by some tensions, since the right one is, is questionable.

And Terzic, who has never worked as a coach in Dortmund? Perhaps he lacks the experience of being able to grown directly with the not simple situation with a completely newly compiled team?

See you again in the training camp with Filipe Luís

However, a completely different trainer may have moved into the Bayer focus. In summer, the Leverkuseners were the first Bundesliga club Brazil elected as a place for the summer training camp.

There the workself trained on the training site of Flamengo Rio de Janeiro and met Filipe Luís, coach of the table leader of the Camponato Brasileiro A. Ten Hag and Luís, had exchanged jerseys of their teams.

Rolfes: “Had a good exchange and intensive conversations”

Rolfes remembered Luís’ time as a player in a LinkedIn post a month ago: “In 2019 we tried to bring him to Leverkusen at Bayer 04. We had a good exchange and intensive conversations. After all, he decided to return to Brazil. Nevertheless, we have stayed in touch over the years and exchanged our way around football and our way together.”

The Leverkusen sports director then literally got into rave: “Now we finally met again in Rio and had a great exchange about football, leadership and culture. He gave fascinating insights into the rhythm and passion of Brazilian football and how it differs from the more structured approach in Europe.”

Brazilian with exciting vita

The Vita of the 40-year-old-born Brazilian, who is called Filipe Luís Kasmirski with a full name, reads exciting: his grandparents came from three different European nations (Italy, Austria, Poland).

After his first steps as a footballer in the Brazilian south, he came to Deportivo La Coruna, where he made a breakthrough through training stations in Amsterdam, Uruguay and Real Madrid in 2006.

On master course with flamengo

Atletico Madrid and FC Chelsea were called his later stations, where he celebrated numerous successes before he ended his player career at Flamengo 2023. 44 caps are available for the left full -back in the Brazilian national team.

He has been a coach at Flamengo since October 2024, won the Brazilian trophy directly and is currently on the master course with his team after 22 game days.

Cultural understanding

His experiences in the many different corners of the world and its family background suggest an understanding of different cultures. A prerequisite that would not be the worst in Leverkusen for 27 players from 14 nations.

Rolfes indicated in his LinkedIn post that he and the Brazilian footballLeadership and culture (… “had a great exchange …”) common approaches.

Brazilian championship ends in December

A venture could be the lack of experience as a trainer, which, however, was not a disadvantage at Ten Hag’s successful predecessor Xabi Alonso. It would also be questionable whether the Flamengo coach would stop its successful path in Rio de Janeiro. The championship runs there until December 21st.

It remains exciting. Rolfes and managing director Fernando Carro are likely to have many conversations during the international break to maneuver the club in calmer waters again after the excess and turbulent recent months.

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