Are Leverkusen the best smaller budget team in the past 15 years?

[SambaStyle]

Decent sized club, but they've put together a fantastic team, playing fantastic football.

Some notable recent entries..

Ajax (Huge club - small budget) - beat Juve, Real
Monaco - Won Ligue 1, Semi final CL
Leicester City - Won PL

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

Atalanta

Whupping Liverpoo 0-3 at a flagless Klanfield.

 

[Dicko69]

The last 8 months for sure

 

[manimanc]

Fuckoff.
It's the tramps, klopp has spent a grand total of £87.45p on players, the are still spending some of the coutinho money and his players have no laces in their boots as bingo has worked miracles on a shoestring budget.

 

[Gorbachev]

Decent sized club, but they've put together a fantastic team, playing fantastic football.

Some notable recent entries..

Ajax (Huge club - small budget) - beat Juve, Real
Monaco - Won Ligue 1, Semi final CL
Leicester City - Won PL

Listening to Rafa Honigstein last week on the totally football show podcast, I thought it was interesting hearing that Leverkusen are not seen as a big club in Germany, if anything they are a periphery club.

To put it into perspective, Leverkusen is the 49th biggest town in Germany. The England equivalent is Gloucester or a population equivalent would be Slough. Leverkusen's population is 165k. Warrington has a bigger population.

They have never won the Bundesliga and only won one DFB Pokal in their history. To be fair they have won the UEFA Cup before back in 1988.

They were very nearly the first team in history to be the first European Cup winner despite never winning their domestic league back in 2002.

If they win a treble this year, it would be an unbelievable achievement, up there with the finest feats of the last 25/30 years.

 

[Cancunion]

they play amazing... it's premier league level and Alonso created a great team. would love to see him coaching a PL club

 

[Dialog]

Decent sized club, but they've put together a fantastic team, playing fantastic football.

Some notable recent entries..

Ajax (Huge club - small budget) - beat Juve, Real
Monaco - Won Ligue 1, Semi final CL
Leicester City - Won PL

No, LIVERPOOL take the trophy for that. Kloop operates on a shoe string budget, remember!

On a serious note. Leverkusen are phenomenal. Great football, fantastic team. Proper players. Tactically brilliant manager. The squad was assembled with a small budget. Wages at reasonable level. Operating costs reasonable. Revenue reasonable to good. This club has done a great job. It is safe to say that they are lifting the trophy with 5-games to spare, this weekend to be precise. Zero defeats in all comps. 16points already clear of the biggest club in Germany. That's mind blowing!!!

 

[eyalluvitt]

Girona Shirley, they are punching and some

 

[Manchester_lalala]

You could say it’s because of the state of Bundesliga, but they’re going the distance in Europe too. Alonso will have the pick of many clubs in years time. Dare I say it, if Pep wins a couple of the big three this season, he may feel like his time is done at City and complete his final season. That leaves the door open for Alonso.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

You could say it’s because of the state of Bundesliga, but they’re going the distance in Europe too. Alonso will have the pick of many clubs in years time. Dare I say it, if Pep wins a couple of the big three this season, he may feel like his time is done at City and complete his final season. That leaves the door open for Alonso.

It’d be hard to believe Txiki & Ferran haven’t had a quiet word with him yet about Pep’s contract situation. I think sometimes people put too much stock in “going home” when you’re often on a hiding to nothing there.

City are tailor-made for a successful, young manager, with tactical nous, who is ready to take a world class team and rebuild it in his own image.