Dreesen contradicts Hoeneß
Bayer boss: Wirtz and Alonso stay in Leverkusen
Bayer boss: Wirtz and Alonso stay in Leverkusen
04/12/2025, 3:54 p.m.
Uli Hoeneß dreams of his favorite player Florian Wirtz. Real Madrid dreams of coach Xabi Alonso. But both stay in Leverkusen. Bayer boss Fernando Carro makes it clear.
Exceptional footballer Florian Wirtz and the courted coach Xabi Alonso will remain at Bayer Leverkusen in the coming season. Nobody from FC Bayern Munich reported on Wirtz, managing director Fernando Carro said before the Leverkusener against Union Berlin before the Bundesliga game at Sky. There is a “very high probability” that the 21-year-old international will stay with Bayer even after the ongoing season. “He has a contract,” emphasized Carro with reference to the contract until 2027.
In financial terms, there is “no pain limit,” said Carro. “It may also be that a club comes where the Flo does not want to go,” added the Spaniard. Wirtz, who is back in the squad for the first time after a five -week injury break, was recently mentioned as a desired player of Bayern Munich.
However, Uli Hoeneß had recently explained that the record champion did not have enough money for a landlord’s obligation. “We need a special fund for his transfer, like the federal government. Therefore, this is not an issue at the moment,” said the Bavaria Honorary President in the “Welt am Sonntag”.
However, CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen later contradicted this. He sees his club financially equipped for a possible 140 million euro transfer from Wirtz. Despite Hoeneß’s legendary fixed deposit account of the German football record champions, “enough is on it-for whom it may always be enough,” Dreesen said in front of the Bundesliga classic against Borussia Dortmund at Sky.
Dreesen sees that the club patron enthusiastically raved, he dreamed of Wirtz in the Bavaria jersey. “You can always express dreams,” he said, and: “One thing is known: FC Bayern always wants to have the best players in Germany.” However, Wirtz is currently playing at Bayer Leverkusen, “and we respect that”. Everything else is “speculation that I will not comment on”.
“Would have been happy if Madrid had won the high”
Carro firmly calculates the whereabouts with coach Alonso, who was repeatedly brought up as a possible successor to Carlo Ancelotti at Real Madrid. “He still has a contract with us, he feels comfortable here. First of all, we go out of it and we are planning the next season with him, preparation, games, squad …”, said the Leverkusen managing director.
However, he also admitted that because of the coaching discussions, he did not fit the 0: 3 of Real Madrid in the quarter-final first leg of the Champions League at Arsenal. “I would have been happy if Madrid had won the house and the coaching position at Madrid was fixed. It is normal in football that if a team like Real Madrid in the quarter-finals loses 3-0 against Arsenal that the rumor mill would go up. I would rather have saved myself,” said the 60-year-old.
