Xabi Alonso is prominent enough to handle the hurdles which will be coming his way next season. Remember he's the main reason behind the sudden peak form of Bayer Leverkusen, they're able to comprehend the situations at hand and hitting top target in each season. Bayer Leverkusen have relaxed their players and they're warming up for the big season ahead. This is not an easy one because the entailed actions involves other oppositions.
I also have no doubts about the ability of Xabi Alonso especially for this season again because from what he has shown last season at Bayer Leverkusen to be able to win the Bundesliga is something extraordinary so that it has been a good achievement for him and hopefully can be achieved again this season. However, I do not think that Bayer Leverkusen can easily face the obstacles in the UCL, because it is a competition with quite high tension and very different from any competition including the Bundesliga.
There may not be easy matches like last year in the German league because most of the teams transferred a lot of players. The league became more difficult with the transferred players. For example, Borussia Dortmund's offensive line got much stronger. Bayern Munich also got stronger with good players. Kompany also made tactical changes. Bayer Leverkusen's squad from last year may be successful this year, but it may not be.
I won't argue, after just 18 months, of fighting for a place in the relegation zone, Leverkusen has stepped up to the top of German football. Behind that extraordinary achievement is coach Xabi Alonso. Apart from tactics, an important thing that Alonso has done at Leverkusen is to stimulate the fighting spirit of the players, helping them become stronger.
But next season there will be no more opportunities for Xabi Alonso and his team. Coach Xabi Alonso should understand that no matter how good he is tactically, the players in the squad still decide. I don't believe he can continue to dominate the Bundesliga with a financially poor team like Bayer Leverkusen. Coach Xabi Alonso wants to develop his career, I advise him to find big clubs with abundant financial resources, finance is always a stepping stone for legendary coaches. Without money to recruit good students, I think no coach can become a legend. Their wisdom is to always choose big and financially rich clubs.