19 Jan 2024 10:30:20
Bayern Leverkusen were in the relegation zone when Alonso was appointed as head coach/ Manager.
Previously they had been a club that developed and sold young talents such as Havertz to Chelski.
Alonso changed that and as well as buying Boniface 22 for 20mil he brought in 3 experienced internationals as free transfers, Grimaldo 27, Hofmann 30 and Xhaka 30.
They now sit top of the German league just above Bayern Munich. just saying.

1.) 19 Jan 2024
19 Jan 2024 13:15:20
I get what you’re saying mate but let’s look at what Bayer Leverkusen offer players compared to us. Grimaldo is on 99k a week, Xhaka is 68k and Hoffman is 66k before we get into the fact that the Bundesliga is a massive league with big teams and the lifestyle in Germany is completely different to Scotland.

I know you mean that we should do something similar but the potential pool of players we would be in for is players that lower championship and league one teams are competing for. Our best bet is to try to buy young promising players but also trying to find players like Juranovic and in the past Hinkel who are competing in European leagues but aren’t at clubs who can promote them internationally or offer CL or EL.

2.) 19 Jan 2024
19 Jan 2024 13:57:55
BB
We could easily afford to pay 70k per week, 2 things need to happen 1/ trim the squad to a manageable level. 2/ remove the wage cap which incidentally doesn’t extend to the boardroom.
I would also consider scrapping our youth set up for all the good it does us.

3.) 19 Jan 2024
19 Jan 2024 18:11:55
Things don’t look great at the moment, there aren’t many deals completed anywhere yet. It’s pointless getting all worked up at this stage with two weeks left we could have a good window or a bad one . The fact that when Ange came in we were in need of a total rebuild, meant that his first 2 windows were very busy as we needed players all over Park . Things safe more specific now which might mean that transfers are slower coming in . Everyone connected with transfers knows importance moving on up to 8/ 10 players to make training more manageable.

4.) 19 Jan 2024
19 Jan 2024 18:22:57
This has to be the most ridiculous thread I've read on here! You are compairng Bayer Leverkusen to us??????? No wonder they couldn't pay the facepainter!