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Florian Wirtz is back at Bayer – but does he stay?
Florian Wirtz is back at Bayer – but does he stay?
04/11/2025, 5:21 p.m.
Does Bayer still manage to catch up with Bayern and become German football champions again? You would actually like to talk about this question in Leverkusen. Instead, another is on the agenda: what will actually become of Florian Wirtz and Xabi Alonso?
Florian Wirtz already gave signatures in accordance with this week. Bayer Leverkusen’s hope of hope wrote autographs for the fans after he was briskly grabbed over the lawn in training. Wirtz is ready for the final attack on Bayern, but the target chase is overlaid by the annoying speculation around his future. Because the most important signature from the exceptional cloak, they hope to be in vain at the Double winner.
But why hesitates Wirtz? Is it because of the Munich charm offensive? “You have to ask him personally,” said Leverkusen’s sports manager Simon Rolfes. In any case, the specialist magazine “Kicker” concludes that there will be no happy ending in history for the factory club. The Bayer bosses have no choice but to wait patiently.
The same applies to coach Xabi Alonso, who has been associated with Real Madrid even more intensely since this week. Of all things, the discussions about the duo, which Leverkusen is supposed to introduce again in the title race, take care of Union Berlin on Saturday before the game against Union (3:30 p.m./Sky and in the live ticker at ntv.de) For plenty of unrest around the BayArena.
And what will become of Alonso?
Bayer is eagerly hoping that the courted Wirtz will stay. The national player’s contract runs until 2027, and he has been a long -term work paper for extension for a long time. But FC Bayern may go “all-in”. It is said that the “kicker” writes that honorary president Uli Hoeneß would even be willing to agree to borrow in order to buy Wirtz from his contract.
“Uli Hoeneß wishes this – and Uli actually fulfills all the wishes at FC Bayern,” said record international Lothar Matthäus on a Sky press date. The Munich team is far from being alone in advertising around the magic foot. The English champion Manchester City in particular is said to have chosen Wirtz as the successor to Kevin de Bruyne.
And Alonso? The Spaniard had recently avoided Bayer that “one should not think too far,” he said. After the real clap at Arsenal FC in the premier class (0: 3), speculation once again shot into the herb. Trainer Carlo Ancelotti, who also has to answer in a tax process, is anything but firmly sitting in the saddle. In Leverkusen they refer to Alonso’s contract until 2026. “He said that there is nothing. He has a contract with us,” emphasized Rolfes. Alonso now had “no nerves to say something about it”.
How things will continue in Leverkusen in summer seems more unclear than ever before the season finale. Those responsible tried quite in vain to focus on the sporty. The discussions were “not an issue for us”, said Alonso. Wirtz, who had been missing due to an ankle injury since the beginning of March, will be in the squad “and can play – also from the beginning”. At Bayer, Wirtz awakens the hope of being able to intervene in the title race six points before the end of six points behind Bayern. With him, Rolfes emphasized, the Leverkuseners are “a better team”. Just how long?
