The new Bundesliga season begins on Friday. What will happen? The sports editorial team has a few ideas …

In Leverkusen you know that Xabi Alonso was a good trainer. In Leverkusen, however, it is not known that the Spaniard was the main reason for the most successful era of the history of Vicekusen. And above all you don’t know how bad you really are. In Leverkusen you think that Alonso would have put together a very good team, which the Spaniard then refined. In truth, he has become Double winner with an average force. The only two players with extraordinary skills were Florian Wirtz and Jonathan Tah. Like Alonso, they are now gone. Patrik Schick, Alejandro Grimaldo, Robert Andrich or Jonas Hofmann remained. Ordinary kicker, but no longer. However, they are mentally a top team, spoiled by many last minute victories. They lived from faith. It will now disappear. And then they are beaten up in the Champions League and drag the bad mood into annoying encounters with Heidenheim and St. Pauli.