Lower salary “I don’t care”
SV Werder Bremen’s Mitchell Weiser is reluctant to look back on his time at Bayer 04 Leverkusen around two months after his permanent move. “There weren’t many opportunities left where I could think of what else I can do. It was just training, no more games,” said the 28-year-old.kicker“in an interview.
Before being loaned and then signed to Weser, the right-back had no role in Leverkusen. This had caused self-doubt, as Weiser admitted: “And when I came to Bremen and things didn’t go so well at first, I thought: Did you forget everything? I didn’t actually know about myself.”
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At Werder, Weiser was chosen for Ole Werner at the latest by the change of coach – in Leverkusen it was most likely like that in the first year, after which his playing time gradually decreased before moving to the Hanseatic city in 2021. “I felt that way. very comfortable within the team, but the decision makers have changed over time. And if you don’t feel confident and don’t see a chance to play, then you lose something and that breaks you too, “he said.
Mitchell Weiser: The return to Werder Bremen “took an unnecessarily long time”
Sometimes he didn’t play without a reason and in 2020 Weiser was suggested to change. Due to the relatively reasonable odds of the previous year, he wanted to establish himself in Leverkusen and stayed – in the Bundesliga he then played 224 minutes that season. After the loan to Bremen, coach Gerardo Seoane was the first Bayer employee to tell him openly and in time “that I will not play”. The decision for permanent change was then made.
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Weeks of negotiations on the permanent transfer followed, with the conclusion of which Weiser signed in Bremen until 2024. “The Bremen team asked me every day: how are you, when are you coming back?”, Said the former youth international. When things looked particularly bad, he also thought, “It wouldn’t work anymore. (…) Of course, it bothered me that the change actually took an unnecessarily long time due to little things between the parties.”
