"By the way, do you think this is the worst news?"

While Zhou Yi was pondering, the voice of his agent Shurtze sounded again.

"What?" Zhou Yi was surprised.

Isn't that the worst thing that hurts two main defenders in one national team game?

"You know that Friedrich, do you know?" Schulze asked.

Zhou Yi nodded.

Manuel Friedrich is the replacement that Dortmund club is looking for after Subotic's season reimbursement.

At that time, if Dortmund wanted to introduce central defenders from other teams, they would have to wait until the transfer window opened in January at the earliest, but in that case, they would have to wait too long. Dortmund would not be able to wait for so long, and the distance would not quench the near thirst.

According to the transfer rules, only transfers for free agents who do not have contracts are not subject to the transfer window.

So Dortmund finally turned his attention to former international Manuel Friedrich, who was unemployed at home and had no ball to play.

In fact, Friedrich is not a very suitable candidate. After all, he hasn't played football for a while, so his condition is impossible to guarantee.

But Dortmund has no better choice, free agents are just a few, and if a player is really capable and in good shape, it is impossible for a player without a ball to play.

Moreover, Manuel Friedrich once played for Mainz, and Klopp also coached Mainz, and the two had a direct cooperative relationship. Klopp knew Friedrich relatively well. Although Friedrich had now fallen to the point where he had no ball to play, Klopp was more inclined to choose to cooperate with him and the players he was familiar with.

So after Subotic was injured, Friedrich, who originally planned to play football in Bangkok in January next year, came to Dortmund's training base to train with the team.

Zhou Yi knew this.

At that time, Friedrich came to Dortmund for a trial. Later, when Zhou Yi left Dortmund and returned to play football in China, he heard that Dortmund had officially signed with Friedrich.

The two sides signed a contract for seven months, and the contract expired after the season ended.

This is obviously a firefighting contract.

The 34-year-old Manuel Friedrich was once a German international. He was selected for the German national team in 2006, but he did not participate in the 2006 World Cup. Because he was not trusted by Klinsmann's successor, Loeff, Friedrich only played nine times in the German national team and scored one goal.

"Friedrich, I just got injured in a warm-up match." Schultzer said in a plain tone.

Zhou Yi opened his mouth wide and looked at the agent driving in front of him with an incredible look.

"Just kidding?"

"How could it be a joke? Just when you were participating in the national team, Dortmund also found someone to play a warm-up match, and his opponent was the German second-tier team Paderborn. As a result, Dortmund won 2:1, but Friedrich was injured in the game... It was said that Klopp rushed into the stadium at that time..."

Listening to Shurce's story, Zhou Yi was able to think of such a picture.

He could understand Klopp's mood - he finally found a substitute for Subotic, but was injured in the first warm-up match. Isn't this a heartbreaker?

"How is the injury?" Zhou Yi asked the most important question.

"Don't worry, it's not a season reimbursement." Schultzer joked.

"Oh, that's fine..." Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

"But the next game against Bayern Munich is not going to be able to play," Schultze said again.

Zhou Yi frowned.

The game against Bayern Munich is very important. Friedrich can't play, Hummels and Subotic, and Schmelzer were injured again. How can Dortmund compete with Bayern Munich...

Zhou Yi himself felt a headache, let alone Klopp.

Zhou Yi doesn't have to consider how to solve this problem at least. If Klopp can't come up with a solution, he will have to watch Dortmund be defeated by Bayern Munich at home.

Dortmund now has only one Papastasoplos in the centre-back position.

In addition, there is a young player born in 1995, Marian Saar, who played as a central defender, has never had a first-team record. In the game against Bayern Munich, it is impossible to expect him to perform well when he appears. It is impossible to withstand Bayern Munich's offensive. This is reality after all, not a movie that makes a name for one goal.

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Dortmund media are reporting on the injury wave that Dortmund has encountered, and the finger is naturally directed at conspiracy theories such as the German team and "favoring Bayern Munich".

In response, the Munich media also fought back.

The confrontation between the two teams has not yet begun, but the battle of verbal has begun.

The Munich media mocked Dortmund for having made excuses for failure, so they kept exaggerating the injury crisis they encountered. In this way, once they lose, they can blame the loss for too many injured soldiers.

And what about Bayern Munich? They never hype their injuries, even though they are also very serious.

In this game, Bayern Munich, Schweinsteiger, Shachri, Ribery, Pizarro, and Badstuber have also been confirmed to be unable to participate. Robben, Boateng, Xavi Martinez, Contento and others have just returned from injury, and it is hard to say how they are in good condition.

So if you are affected by injuries, Bayern Munich is no worse than Dortmund, but Bayern Munich does not complain at all.

Dortmund media retorted: "Aren't you complaining now?"

Of course, the most important gimmick of Germany's "national derby" this time is definitely not the two teams' wounded soldiers, but the fact that Gotze and Lewandowski met their old club again in the game after leaving Dortmund.

This summer, when the two left Dortmund, they had a little unhappy with the original club.

In the minds of many Dortmund fans, both of them can be equated with Judas.

Of course, Lewandowski's situation is better. When he left Dortmund, he had a good reason. In the transfer farce, Dortmund was unreasonable, so there were not many Dortmund fans targeting him.

Mainly targeted at Gotze.

This genius, who was regarded as the leader of Dortmund's next ten years by Dortmund fans, resolutely betrayed the parent team that trained him, and there was no lingering at all.

Dortmund fans are said to be ready to "welcome" Gotze home with booing during the game.

Some media conducted an interview about Gotze on the streets of Dortmund. Facing the camera footage, almost no Dortmund fans were friendly to Gotze.

Everyone gritted their teeth when they mentioned Gotze.

And how did Gotze himself view this "trip home"?

"I will play hard, and things off the court don't distract me." He cleverly avoided overly sensitive issues.

After transferring to Bayern Munich this season, Gotze did not have a stable chance of playing in Bayern Munich due to an initial injury.

He missed two games, and in two games he sat on the bench for ninety minutes, started four times, made three substitutes, scored only one goal.

Such performance is far from what he did when he was the main player at Dortmund.

Dortmund media think that now it seems that Gotze chose to leave Dortmund for Bayern Munich, which is doomed to be a failed transfer. He went from being a main player of a Bundesliga champion team to a substitute for the defeated players in the past three seasons.

It is said that people go to high places, but now Gotze has done the opposite and gone to low places...

Dortmund fans are naturally gloating about Gotze's current situation in Bayern Munich. They think he deserves it, and this is the end of betrayal of Dortmund.

Munich has high hopes for Gotze, believing that his performance is not very good now, mainly because of the injury at the beginning of the season that made him miss the team's pre-season training camp and the start of the league.

Now that he has returned from injury, he still needs to slowly find his condition.

Once he regained his form, it will make Bayern Munich more powerful!

How do Dortmund players view the reunion with Gotze?

Many people avoided talking about this issue. Groskreuz was interviewed. He did not forgive his former teammates, but instead told the media viciously: "I don't know if he will play, but if he wants to play, I will make him regret his original decision!"

Zhou Yi was also asked about Goce, and his attitude became much gentler: "Everyone has his own choice, it's no big deal. It's been so long since the matter has passed, and nothing else is meaningless. As long as you can be responsible for your choice."

Another reporter asked Zhou Yi: "Bortmond's situation is very bad at the moment. If he loses to Bayern Munich, will Dortmund's dream of winning four consecutive leagues be shattered?"

Zhou Yi laughed when he heard this: "The league is long. Who said that if you lose a game, the league championship will be gone? This statement is too irresponsible. Otherwise, wouldn't the teams who win the championship have to be unbeaten in one game to win the championship? As long as you lose one game, you won't be able to win the championship?"

"Does that mean you think losing to Bayern Munich is also an acceptable result?" A reporter asked immediately, feeling that he seemed to have caught a big news.
Chapter completed!