Quote from: Dzwaafu11 on July 17, 2025, 09:29:46 PM

Quote from: KTChampions on July 17, 2025, 05:07:22 PM

I never pay attention to pre-season games, it's not much different from the club's training sessions when the players play 11 vs. 11. Endless number of substitutions, experimental lineups, unclear motivation of the opposing team - for example, you are playing seriously, and for the other team it is just a warm-up game. How can you evaluate the result obtained? We will see the first results in the first rounds, it seems to me that a lot will be clear right away about what awaits Bayer with Ten Hag.

The pre-season is not that hot, so I don’t really take it seriously like that. So far Bayer Leverkusen have not played any match that we can say they are going to have a good season or not. These matches that are listed above may be a factor to determine how Bayer Leverkusen's performance will be.

I’m really eager to see Bayer Leverkusen under Ten Hag; I want to see how their performance will be in the coming season. Since they changed their manager and sold out two of their key players, it makes me very eager to see them on the pitch again, so I can’t know how far they are going in the coming season.

Yes, I'm also interested in what Ten Hag can do, but judging by the bookmakers' odds, he won't have much space to prove himself:

Fc Bayern Munich - 1.30

Bayer 04 Leverkusen - 8.00

Borussia Dortmund - 11.00

Rb Leipzig - 17.00

In fact, in order not to fail, Ten Hag only needs to win the race for second place against Dortmund (which does not look like a big task) and even if he loses it, it is unlikely to matter, since any place after first is assessed only as whether it gives a ticket to the Champions League or not.
As for the Champions League, there is also a fairly simple task - to get into the top 24, and then hope for a successful draw.