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Gotze to Bayern £32 Million

Wow indeed, did not think he would go there

Bayern going to be even stronger next season, Dortmund don't have a chance

Disappointed for Dortmund, him and Reus were an exciting partnership
 
Big mistake if Dortmund are selling there star player to there rivals :facepalm:
 
Where is the link guys? Come on, give me a credible source as well.

This does not make sense for me. 1. Title Rivals
2. Dortmund have no reason to sell, their books are balanced with no debt. Also they have aspirations to be one of the best in the world.
3. They are in the semis of the Champs League etc etc.
 
Next season they will buy Reus. Any other exciting German talent in Bundesliga?
 
what the hell is wrong with bayern and bundesliga in general

the thing is that they not only spend an insane amount of money compared to everyone else in the league, they end up buying the best players of their closest rivals. Many cases like Neur, Gomez, Klose etc.

So not only do they become strong, their rivals also become weak at the same time

Why is there such a massive gulf.
 
And it begins ... Pep starts building his team ... could be the first of many changes considering how he cleaned house when he took over Barca.
 
Yup Pep wanted this amazing playya.............as for it is sold to rivals don't worry in Bundesliga there is enough young talent BVB will produce another Gotze or will get a quality youngster from a small club
 
Kianig89 said:
Yup Pep wanted this amazing playya.............as for it is sold to rivals don't worry in Bundesliga there is enough young talent BVB will produce another Gotze or will get a quality youngster from a small club
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Of course they will.....until they go to Bayern. Not like Bayern doing anything wrong, they well within their rights. Just from a neutral point of view, it does take away from the league.
 
This is why the Premier League is much better than the Bundesliga.

This would be like Tottenham selling to Manchester United, In the premier league; Club' don't sell all their star players to 1 club.

As for Gotze, Not on the level of Bale,Messi and Ronaldo but in the 2nd tier with the likes of Hazard,Mata and Reus.
 
PakFan2010 said:
This is why the Premier League is much better than the Bundesliga.

This would be like Tottenham selling to Manchester United, In the premier league; Club' don't sell all their star players to 1 club.

As for Gotze, Not on the level of Bale,Messi and Ronaldo but in the 2nd tier with the likes of Hazard,Mata and Reus.
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Berbatov and Carrick say hello

Also how on earth are Tottenham like Dortmund? Dortmund are the defending Champions
 
PakFan2010 said:
This is why the Premier League is much better than the Bundesliga.

This would be like Tottenham selling to Manchester United, In the premier league; Club' don't sell all their star players to 1 club.

As for Gotze, Not on the level of "Bale",Messi and Ronaldo but in the 2nd tier with the likes of Hazard,Mata and Reus.
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Sorry there mate but you went over the top mentioning Bale in the company of Messi and CR7.
Bale is in the company of Mata and Hazard, i rate Hazard to Bale to be honest this was his 1st season at Chelsea and he is only gonna get better. He is only 21 as well.
British players are overrated by their media to be honest.
 
Honestly ... I think Reus is better ... BVB were smart not to sell him.
 
even Reus was signed from Gladbach so all these clubs try to snactch diamonds from small clubs like Bayern got Gomez from Sttutgart Neuer from Schalke so and so forth
 
Kianig89 said:
even Reus was signed from Gladbach so all these clubs try to snactch diamonds from small clubs like Bayern got Gomez from Sttutgart Neuer from Schalke so and so forth
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BUT he did come through the system from Dortmund
 
Amir said:
Next season they will buy Reus. Any other exciting German talent in Bundesliga?
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Plenty of talent, Lars bender, julian draxler, Max meyer are just a few of the names who will be big stars in the future for germany
 
PakFan2010 said:
Bundesliga is an easy league, Tottenham are better than Dortmund.

Bale > All of Dortmund's squad put together.
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i hoe you have said this in lighter way...........Dortmund defeated CITY the English Champions
 
PakFan2010 said:
Bundesliga is an easy league, Tottenham are better than Dortmund.

Bale > All of Dortmund's squad put together.
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Do u have a clue about football or just one of those people who only have MOTD?

Dortmund are far superior side to any team in EPL may be apart from UTD i would say.

And this is coming from a die hard bayern fan.

Give respect where its due.

Coming to gareth bale, what has he achieved in his career to be named a great? Where is the CL? PL? FA Cup? Europa? Other hand messi n ronny have took over the world.
 
Amir said:
Next season they will buy Reus. Any other exciting German talent in Bundesliga?
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There is too much talent in germany atm.

Draxler being the best atm.

The you have Rode n jung off frankfurt,
Son from HSV, Max Kruse Freiburg, Ter Stegen, Hermann Gladbach, Volland Hoffenheim.

A player im excited about is Emre Can from Bayern. Star in the making for me.
 
Bale is'nt even worthy of shining the boots of the likes of Messi and C.Ronaldo let alone be talked about in the same breath as them.

Bale is just a one-trick pony and people will figure him out eventually.
 
Götze returned to Dortmund in July however his career is now on hold as he battles a serious illness.

Mario Götze: the ‘once in a century talent’ who is now fighting to save his career

Some goals are replayed so often it can blind us to their brilliance. Germany’s winner in the 2014 World Cup final is a case in point.

To meet André Schürrle’s cross in extra time, Mario Götze had sprinted to the top-right corner of the six-yard box. As he cushioned the ball mid-jump with his chest, the attacking midfielder had his back to Sergio Romero in the Argentina goal and momentum threatened to push him over the goalline.

Joachim Löw praised Lukas Podolski as one of Germany’s greats before the winger’s 130th and final appearance for his country against England in Dortmund

The 22-year-old swivelled in one fluid motion and volleyed the ball with his weaker left foot past Romero from the tightest of angles to win the final 1-0. Between leaving Schürrle’s boot and crashing into the net, the ball did not touch the ground.

“Show you are better than Messi,” is what Joachim Löw claimed to have told Götze on the touchline and the mercurial Argentinian aside it is hard to imagine another player on the pitch that night carrying off such a jaw‑dropping piece of balletic artistry.

Yet when the world champions walk on to the pitch to play England at Dortmund’s Westfalenstadion on Wednesday, the player responsible for the fourth star on their shirts, as well as some of the home crowd’s fondest memories of the past five years, will be absent.

At the end of last month Borussia Dortmund announced that Götze had been diagnosed with a rare metabolic illness, identified in media reports as myopathy, a muscle disorder which can cause fatigue and weight gain. Last week, the club confirmed he would be out for at least the rest of the season.

The news added a further melancholy twist to the career of a player who, oddly, has scored the winner in a World Cup final yet still looks like he has not fulfilled his potential.

Having made his debut for Jürgen Klopp’s Dortmund side in 2009 as a 17-year-old – the ninth youngest in the history of the Bundesliga – Götze made his breakthrough proper in their title‑winning 2010-2011 season, scoring six goals in 33 matches and earning his first Germany cap, the youngest player to be called up since Uwe Seeler.

Gareth Southgate showed England players the video of him missing the decisive Euro 96 penalty but his ‘powerful message’ was missed by Wayne Rooney and others

His first goal for Germany, the second in a 3-2 friendly win against Brazil, already contained the thrilling attributes that the world would witness inside the Maracanã: a pinball-wizard dribble followed by a tight-angle finish that would have left other strikers careering into the advertising boards.
Mario Götze scores the winner
Mario Götze scores the winner past Sergio Romero of Argentina during the 2014 World Cup final. Photograph: Chris Brunskill/Getty Images

Pummelfee or “chubby fairy”, the nickname his Dortmund team-mates gave him after he struggled to lose weight following an injury, may seem crass in the light of medical findings but it also spoke of admiration. At the start of his career, as with the rub-your-eyes skill that conjured up his second international goal, in a drubbing of Austria, Götze looked like he could defy gravity.

German pundits and managers were bewitched: Löw called him a “wunderkind”, Matthias Sammer said Götze was “one of the greatest talents we have ever had” and Felix Magath memorably described him as a “once in a century talent”. When Bayern Munich triggered Dortmund’s €37m release clause in 2013, Franz Beckenbauer said Götze was “Germany’s best attacking player”.

In the years that followed, that hyperbole proved to be a burden rather than a spur. Even during his three seasons with the Bavarian giants when Götze played and scored regularly, there was a lingering disappointment he had turned out to be only a good team player, not an all‑conquering one‑man army like Messi.

At international tournaments, German media complained Löw gave Götze preferential treatment his club form had not merited. At the World Cup in Brazil, Götze started in the opening match against Portugal and scored in the second against Ghana but was dropped from the starting lineup for Germany’s last three matches.

The former Germany midfielder has left to play in the MLS after being sidelined at Old Trafford

A similar pattern emerged at last year’s European Championship in France, where Götze started in all three group matches but none of the knockout games. Increasingly, those thrusting high-speed dribbles that had been his trademark turned into pirouettes ending nowhere. During the opening match against Ukraine, the former child prodigy went 18 minutes and 26 seconds without touching the ball.

During his time at Bayern, Götze had often gone the extra mile to keep himself fit, training “like a man possessed”, as Kicker wrote in July last year, trying weight training, special diets, sauna and yoga sessions. But when he had another poor game, pundits such as the former player Mehmet Scholl accused him of slacking in training.
Borussia Dortmund fans
Borussia Dortmund fans were far from happy with Mario Götze after he had announced he was leaving for Bayern Munich in 2013. Photograph: Ullstein Bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images

Fans and journalists may have been more willing to ignore such inconsistencies by other players but Götze’s public persona was magnetic to criticism. Bad advice had certainly played a part: the move away from Dortmund, the club he had been with since nine, may have been more easy to forgive had it not been announced 36 hours before the club’s Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid. Many Dortmund fans turned up to that match with Götze’s name on their replica shirts either crossed out or taped over.

At his first Bayern press conference after his £31.5m transfer, Götze made his own ill-advised sartorial statement, wearing a T-shirt by his personal sponsor Nike even though Bayern are sponsored by Adidas. The impression of a young starlet guided by commercial interests rather than a love of the sport stuck.

In contrast to someone as undaunted by the media as his team-mate Thomas Müller, Götze would often come across as aloof in interviews, artfully ruffling his hair with eyes darting around the distance as if searching for an escape route. Die Zeit dubbed him “the living selfie”.

The move back to Dortmund in July last year for £21.7m was meant to change all that. Götze shaved his hair and threw himself into training sessions but the returns have been poor. He has played only 16 matches and scored two goals this season. Before his diagnosis was made public the Dortmund coach, Thomas Tuchel, had left Götze on the bench, citing injuries and a lack of match fitness.

The discovery of his illness has shown his waning dynamism in a different light. In the long run, if he can return to form and re‑establish himself in a competitive and rejuvenated Dortmund side, some people may also be less quick to judge his character.

The German word Götze was first coined by Martin Luther in his 16th‑century translation of the Latin Bible. It means “false god”. It would be an undeserved ending to a young man’s career if the name on Mario Götze’s shirt turned out to have spelled his destiny.
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https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...e-germany-england-world-cup-borussia-dortmund
 
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