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Chapter 185: A blow to the team

"What happened?" Mark Wagner appeared behind Gotze with a confused look on his face and stood at the door.

"You ask Mario yourself, Mark." Groskreutz said, pointing at Gotze unhappily.

Gotze turned around and saw Mark, who was looking at him with confusion: "What's wrong, Mario?"

Gotze did not answer him, but turned back and faced his teammates in the locker room, and then he said: "Bayern Munich has activated my breach of contract clause, and the club cannot refuse..."

His tone was calm.

Mark Wagner, behind him, widened his eyes, with an incredible expression on his face, just staring straight at Gotze's back.

"But you can refuse!" Groskreuz shouted excitedly. "It's Dortmund who trains you, why do you have to go to Bayern Munich?!"

Facing the angry Groskreuz, Gotze shrugged: "Then Bayern Munich fans can also ask Maz."

Many people in the locker room suddenly turned their heads and looked at Mats Hummels.

Hummels quickly raised his hands and said, "What does this have to do with me? Yes, I came from the Bayern Munich youth training camp, but Dortmund is my home. I have said a long time ago that even if Bayern Munich buys me back for 200 million euros, I will not leave. I will stay in Dortmund!"

Last year, a media interviewed Hummels on this issue. At that time, Hummels' contract stipulated that Bayern Munich could buy Hummels back in 2012 with 8 million euros. That's how Hummels answered this question at that time.

After saying that, Hummels could turn his head and say to Gotze: "Mario, in fact, I can't understand. You are the main force in Dortmund, you are one of the most popular people, what else is worth going to Bayern Munich?"

"Yes, Mario. You said you went to Bayern Munich to pursue honor... But in the past two years, we have clearly won more championships than them. What is better to go to Bayern Munich if you stay in Dortmund?" The question this time was Subotic who was holding Groskreuz.

Gros Kreuz in Subotic's arms snorted: "Because he loves Bayern Munich more than Dortmund! Who doesn't know that even the bed sheets he sleeps with Bayern Munich's team badge?"

Faced with the questions and ridicule of his teammates, Gotze did not say anything, standing there silently as if he was a statue.

At this moment, Captain Kyle stood up from the position: "Okay, everyone."

He said.

Hearing his voice, the locker room became quiet again, and everyone turned their heads to look at the captain.

"I don't know what's going on here, but since things have happened, nothing is useless to say. Everyone has the right to choose where he wants to go, whether it's Bayern Munich or Schalke 04," Kyle said with his hands spreading. "I think the most important thing is not who went where he went. It's not that the season has not ended yet, and we still have league and Champions League to play next. And I believe that with Mario's professional spirit, even if he has decided to go to Bayern Munich, he will still finish all the remaining games seriously, right, Mario?"

Kyle turned his head and looked at Gotze.

Gotze nodded slightly and said, "That's of course. By the end of the season, I'm all a Dortmund player."

Groskreuz snorted heavily, obviously thinking that this sentence was really ironic when he said it from Gotze.

"So that's the end of this matter. No matter what happens next, we just need to do our own job. Leave the player transactions to the club and the agents for the work." Kyle said at the end.

No one said anything anymore, Gotze also walked sideways from Groskreuz into the locker room. The "Big Cross" was about to move, but Subotic was grabbed by him. He could only glar at Gotze, and then spat hard behind him: "Traitor!"

This made Gotze's body pause, and at the same time, Kyle's scolding sounded: "Kevin!"

Groskreuz stopped talking, but glared at Gotze.

Gotze walked back to his closet, then put down his backpack and prepared to change his clothes.

Everyone turned around and left and went to do their own things, but no one spoke again, and the atmosphere was embarrassing.

Mark quickly walked to Goce, as if he wanted to say something to Goce, but his mouth opened, but he still didn't say it. In the end, he could only find Zhou Yi and then asked Zhou Yi in a low voice: "What's going on, Zhou Yi?"

Zhou Yi leaned in his position and looked at Mark with an anxious look. This was a simple person who truly loved his hometown team. Then he remembered that compared with Mark, Gotze was not born in Dortmund... He moved to Dortmund with his father and family, and his hometown is in Bavaria, Munich is the capital of Bavaria...

He smiled at Mark and whispered: "As you can see, Mark, Mario is going to say goodbye to us at the end of the season."

Mark turned his head and looked at Gotze in a daze, murmured, "Why?"

This is probably a question that many people who hear this news for the first time want to ask.

Zhou Yi shook his head: "Everyone has aspirations."

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The atmosphere on the training ground that day was very different from usual. There were always laughter and joy in Dortmund's training before, because there were people like Zhou Yi and Gross Kreuz who were responsible for engaging the atmosphere. But today, no one was interested in joking, and everyone was silently completing the training tasks arranged by the coach.

During training, Klopp was always observing his players. Judging from the performance of the players, they should have known that Gotze was going to transfer to Bayern Munich, although he didn't know how the news was leaked.

It can also be seen that the news that Gotze's transfer to Bayern Munich has had a great impact on the players, and some players are obviously hit hard.

At the beginning, he wanted to conceal this news within the team until he couldn't hide it, or after the Champions League semi-finals, and strive to minimize the impact of this matter on the team.

But now it seems that he has to change his strategy, from hiding it to taking the initiative to talk to the players about Gotze's transfer.

He must intervene psychologically in the players to avoid unstable morale.

This matter is really too fatal. Maybe all Dortmund's efforts throughout the season will be wasted.

After the training, Klopp called Zhou Yi's name and asked him to stay and tell him something.

The teammates looked at each other and everyone knew why Klopp wanted to keep Zhou Yi. As the core of the team, when the team suffered such a huge change, the head coach of course had to talk to him.

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In Klopp's office, Zhou Yi sat in a chair, and the team's head coach Klopp was separated from him.

"Do you know about Gotze?" Klopp asked straight to the point.

Zhou Yi nodded: "Yes."

"What do you think?" During the daytime training, Klopp observed everyone in the team. Even Zhou Yi, who has always been calm, performed differently than usual. Although his Chengdu is the slightest, some of his other teammates can almost be described as "lost", such as Mark Wagner.

"I have no idea, coach." Zhou Yi said.

"A liar." Klopp said in his eyes, "We are the only ones here, so you don't have to hide it from me. Just say anything."

Zhou Yi scratched his head, but still didn't say anything.

Seeing that Zhou Yi didn't speak, Klopp said himself: "To be honest, your reaction was a bit abnormal."

After hearing Klopp say this, Zhou Yi showed a puzzled expression.

"When normal people know that Gotze is leaving and going to Bayern Munich, they will be very collapsed, disappointed and painful. But the feeling you give me is just a little deeper. I'm very curious and want to know what you think, and that's the first one to find you."

"So coach, did you plan to call each other to talk like this?" Zhou Yi asked.

"It's almost the same." Klopp leaned on the back of the chair and crossed his legs. "The transfer news from Gotze has hit the team a lot. I noticed that some people feel pain and disappointment. I can understand their feelings. I must be thinking about why Dortmund can't keep his best player, why the team won two consecutive league championships, and the results in the Champions League are getting better and better year by year, but the team's main players still have to transfer and leave to Bayern Munich..."

"Actually, I wasn't hit that much," said Zhou Yi. "I was also quite surprised when I first heard this news. But now I have digested it. I think instead of worrying about why Goce left, it's better to find a way to play the remaining game well."

"Well said, what do you think?"

"Coach, I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing."

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Klopp became interested. He supported his chin with both hands, leaned forward, and supported him on the table.

"There are indeed some people who feel pain and disappointment about Gotze's departure, but I think they should have a feeling in their hearts, that is... anger. Betrayed anger, which will make them perform better than usual, because they will be eager to prove to the person who leaves that Dortmund is not worse than Bayern Munich, and going to Bayern Munich is definitely a wrong choice."

"Well... there is this possibility." Klopp pondered.

"So I think coach, you don't have to worry too much. There is a saying in China: 'The iron-killed camp, the flowing soldiers'. Dortmund is this camp, and the players are soldiers. Not many people will stay in the same team. Everyone comes and leaves, but Dortmund will always be Dortmund."

Speaking of this, Zhou Yi thought of his first experience of going to the South Stand at West** Stadium to watch the game, which is why Dortmund is Dortmund.

Hearing Zhou Yi say this, Klopp laughed: "You kid, you can see it very thoroughly!"

Zhou Yi spread his hands: "Modern football, personnel movement is normal."

Speaking of this, Klopp suddenly narrowed his eyes and asked Zhou Yi: "Will you leave Dortmund?"

Zhou Yi was stunned by Klopp's sudden attack, but he quickly smiled and said, "Coach, you are in Dortmund, I am here."

Not only did he answer Klopp's question, he also flattered Klopp, and also passed the football to Klopp. The question of whether he could leave becomes a question of whether Klopp could leave... Will Klopp leave Dortmund? He himself can't say it, but one thing is certain, in today's football world, there are fewer and fewer head coaches who have been in a team for more than ten years...

Klopp laughed and said, "Okay!"

Then waved his hand: "Go back."

After talking to Zhou Yi for a while, his mood suddenly improved a lot. (To be continued.)
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