With Bayer Leverkusen's 5-0 home win over Bremen, the pharmaceutical company won the Bundesliga title five rounds ahead of schedule, and it was also the first league title of the season in the top five leagues, and Alonso's leadership has been unanimously recognized by the outside world. At the same time, he has the number one player under his command: at the age of 20, Wirtz has gradually played his value, and the superstar potential of the new generation of German midfielders is undoubtedly revealed.
Since Alonso took charge in the middle of the 22-23 season, Bayer Leverkusen has changed his weak form, rushing to sixth place in the Bundesliga at the end of the season, and also reached the Europa League in the Europa League, and Alonso has the support of the top management last summer, after selling Diaby for 55 million euros, only spent 12 million euros to sign Bonifes, Xhaka, Grimaldo and Hofmann, all of whom came to Bayer Arena on a free transfer. Xhaka has continued his performances with the Gunners so far this season, with Boniface scoring 18 goals, a personal best in a single season, and the wide duo of Grimaldo and Frimpong both scoring and assisting in double figures.
But the brightest performance was Wirtz, the 20-year-old German midfielder who scored 17 goals and 18 assists in 41 appearances and scored a hat-trick against Bremen as a substitute and sent Bayer Arena fans into a frenzy early on. After this excellent season, Wirtz's value has skyrocketed to 110 million euros, tied with Musiala and Kane for the first place in the Bundesliga. Considering that Leverkusen is not as famous and operational as Real Madrid, Bayern, Barcelona Manchester City, Manchester United and other giants, Wirtz's value can be said to be a real game, and Leverkusen introduced Wirtz 4 years ago, only spent 200,000 euros.
Wirtz's outstanding performance naturally caused Liverpool, Manchester City and other giants to compete, Leverkusen is likely to be difficult to retain him in the future, but with Alonso announced that he will stay next season, Wirtz is likely to choose to stay in the team for another year, next season's Leverkusen will enter the Champions League as the Bundesliga champion, if they can win the Europa League this season, Leverkusen can even participate in the European Super Cup.
In addition, the upcoming European Championship is also a stage for Wirtz to display his talent and ability, in the recent international friendlies, Wirtz completed the opening eight seconds of the game against the French team, Wirtz can play left, right, can score and assist, under Nagelsmann, he is expected to lock in a main position. Once he has a good performance on the international stage, it will be even more helpful for him to land in the big teams in the future.