Chapter 189: Exposed
After discovering that his good friend's mentality was fine, Zhou Yi could finally prepare for the Champions League semifinals with peace of mind. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the first leg, Borussia Dortmund hosted Real Madrid, and before that, Bayern Munich hosted Barcelona.
Everyone is playing at home, and the arrangement of the home and away stadium is not a very good arrangement in the general sense, because the most critical second leg of the game, they have to play away, which is very difficult.
German teams have always had an advantage over Spanish teams when playing on their home turf, whether it is Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund, if they want to advance to the final, they must play well at home in the first leg and try not to give the opponent a chance to return to their home stadium to turn the tables.
It's a theoretical expectation, but in practice there will be a big deviation, and it's not easy to really lay the foundation for qualifying for the final in the first leg.
Even if Dortmund have beaten Real Madrid home and away in the group stage, it does not conclude that Dortmund can definitely beat Real Madrid in the semi-finals.
The group stage and semi-finals of the Champions League are completely different competitions.
If Dortmund still has the idea that "it is easy to beat Real Madrid at home", they will lose if they don't do it.
After the game against Mainz, Jurgen Klopp received questions about the Champions League semi-finals, and everyone's attention was already on the Champions League.
In the face of questions from reporters, he appeared very low-key.
“...... It's the semi-finals and we've been here last season, so it's very clear that no team can be underestimated. Not to mention that our opponents are Real Madrid, a team with a lot of experience in the Champions League. We'll do our best, and God will do the rest......"
Klopp's low profile has been interpreted by some media as "modesty", or "psychological warfare".
But in fact, Klopp's low profile is also due to a concern, that is, after the Gotze transfer incident, he can not accurately grasp the team's military spirit, this team can not only beat Fürth 6-1 away, but also win 2-0 at home to Mainz, so against Real Madrid, will it also be affected?
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On the evening of April 22, there are less than two days left before the home game against Real Madrid.
The attention of the German media is drawn to Bayern Munich, because tomorrow night, Bayern Munich will host Barcelona and it will be Dortmund's turn after they have played.
Again, this is a strong conversation. And Pep Guardiola, the meritorious coach who created the Barcelona Dream III, will take over Bayern Munich next season, which also adds some topics to the meeting between these two teams.
Just as everyone was discussing the game, at about 11 o'clock in the evening, a message popped up on Facebook:
"Big news! Gotze will be moving to Bayern Munich at the end of the season! This source is an active player, and the accuracy of the information is absolutely reliable!"
The person who posted this news was not an unknown person, but the famous reporter of WDR Sports, Arnd Ziegler, who is not the kind of clown who makes up big news to win eyeballs, but a respectable journalist with the quality of a serious journalist.
He was responsible for every statement he made, so when he exposed the news, he was quickly noticed on the Internet.
Ten minutes later, Ziegler's Facebook message was reposted on the same well-known transfer market forum in the industry.
At this time, although Ziegler had deleted the Facebook post he had first posted, it was really useless.
At half past eleven, Sky Sports also reported the explosive news online.
At about 12 o'clock, the official Facebook account of the German newspaper Bild reported the news.
Jurgen Klopp, Zorke, and a number of Borussia Dortmund players were all flooded with phones.
Even though it was early in the morning......
Even Zhou Yi was woken up from his sleep by the ringing of the phone.
"I'm really sorry to bother you at this time, Zhou Yi......! Is Götze really going to Bayern Munich?" it was a Chinese journalist who called.
Zhou Yi, who was woken up, heard the other party calling for this question...... He said coldly, "I'm sorry, you made a mistake. ”
After saying that, he hung up the phone, and then quickly turned off the power of the phone.
At this moment, he didn't care why the news was suddenly known by the media, because isn't it normal? It would have been quite abnormal for this matter to be kept under the radar for so long......
He just wants to sleep now.
But after turning off his mobile phone, Zhou Yi couldn't sleep.
He tossed and turned in bed like a pancake, and he couldn't sleep with his eyes closed.
In the end, Zhou Yi could only turn over and sit up, and scolded through gritted teeth in the dark:
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The next day, when Jurgen Klopp saw his players at Bracker's training base, he realised that the impact of Götze's move on the team was probably just starting to really start......
He saw Zhou Yi yawning during the warm-up, this kind of thing is very rare for this kind of thing to happen to Zhou Yi.
Not only Zhou Yi, but other players also looked sluggish during training.
In fact, many people, including him, probably didn't sleep well this night.
Many Dortmund fans, when they wake up, I am afraid that there will be a feeling that the "end of the world" is coming.
One of their favourite players, the pride of the South Stand, the most iconic talent of the Borussia Dortmund Academy, and the heart of German football for the next decade...... Mario Gotze was revealed to be transferring to Bayern Munich next season?!
At breakfast, I don't know how many people broke their cups, and I don't know how many people were stunned and completely forgot to eat.
They can now only hope that this is just hearsay, a "news" made up by the media to attract attention in the run-up to the semi-finals.
There are not a few people with this kind of mentality, after all, Dortmund's momentum has been so good recently, winning the league championship for two consecutive seasons and reaching the Champions League semi-finals for two consecutive seasons.
Under such circumstances, how could Gotze go to Bayern Munich?
This is probably a gimmick hyped up by the pro-Munich media, or a more conspiracy theory, a deliberately despicable move by Bayern Munich in order to influence the morale of Dortmund's military.
It's no secret that Gotze's contract with Borussia Dortmund has a breach clause. Judging by Gotze's current performance, 37 million euros is not an astronomical amount.
Of course, Bayern Munich can directly offer 37 million euros to bypass Dortmund FC to negotiate terms directly with Gotze. But Dortmund fans are convinced that Götze will not hesitate to reject Bayern Munich when facing each other.
Because of Dortmund's pride, there is no reason to go to the sworn enemy Bayern Munich.
But on the morning of the 23rd, an official statement from Dortmund shattered the illusions of all those lucky Dortmund fans.
Dortmund invented a statement on their official website, admitting that Götze had informed the club a few days earlier that the buyout clause would be activated. But at the same time, they also said that they have not received any transfer requests from Bayern Munich so far.
As soon as this news came out, it completely detonated the emotions of Dortmund fans.
Borussia Dortmund's official website flooded with a large number of Dortmund fans, who left messages under the statement, expressing their disappointment with Gotze and their anger at Bayern Munich.
Due to the influx of fans to leave messages on the website in a short period of time, Dortmund's official website collapsed for a while.
Subsequently, at noon, Bayern Munich officials also issued a statement, admitting that they had reached an agreement with Gotze. At the same time, he explained why they have not yet submitted an application to Dortmund to activate the buyout clause, because considering that the Champions League semi-final between the two teams is imminent, in order not to interfere with the preparation of both sides, they have decided to apply to Dortmund after the first leg of the semi-final.
Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich have both made official statements, and there is no doubt that Gotze's transfer to Bayern Munich is a certainty.
All luck came to naught.
Dortmund fans fell into hell, while Bayern Munich fans were overjoyed, they never expected to wake up and the club gave them a big gift - they actually poached Dortmund's proudest talent player Gotze!
For two consecutive seasons, Bayern Munich has been suppressed by Dortmund in the domestic league, Dortmund's youth storm makes Bayern Munich fans a little envious, and it is not that no one has poached people from Dortmund, but it is just a fantasy and a pipe dream.
Now, Hoeness has actually helped them turn their daydreams into reality!
Of course, it would be better if it was Zhou Yi who was dug up......
It may not be that Bayern Munich doesn't want to dig, but the contract signed by Zhou Yi and Dortmund is different from Gotze, and he also has a contract break clause, and the amount of the contract break is less than Gotze's 37 million euros - it is 30 million euros - but this clause is not valid before a certain year, month and day, but can only take effect when there is still the last year of the contract, so even if Bayern Munich wants to use the contract break clause to force Zhou Yi, it is impossible to do it, and it is still early in the last year of the contract...... (To be continued.) )